Wrapping up the horrorday celebration with this doozy of a film. The consequences of inviting people to a family dinner can be dire, especially if those people are possessed by otherworldly forces. That is what we see in Hosts. The plot sees a family having dinner on Christmas Eve, and decide to invite their neighbors […]
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George Romero turned out a gruesome adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Dark Half. Full of murder and blood, this movie was very dark indeed. The plot is about a writer who created a pseudonym to write under, and when threatened to have his identity exposed, he decides to kill off his other identity,
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Beginning in the mid 90s, the New French Extremity Movement was gaining momentum that the world could not ignore. A number of transgressive French directors were presenting bold, uncompromised visions that reflected the growing and complicated fears and anxieties of the culture. One of the earlier pieces to plant the flag for this movement was
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Istanbul, Turkey, is not a typical place one would think of when it comes to horror films. But back in 2015, Director Can Evrenol presented a groundbreaking work that shook the festival scene. He presented an uncompromised look into Hell that most mainstream films were not willing to display at the time. ‘Baskin’ is the
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The lore of Japan’s Aokigahara (AKA ‘the suicide forest’) has grown to reach everywhere in the world, including modern Western culture. The idea of a forest that has an energy that calls for hurting people to enter and take their own lives is not only a scary idea, but also a pseudoreality. While there isn’t
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Zombie movies are a hard sell nowadays; the fatigue of the walking dead is unavoidable. In order to convince an audience to watch a new zombie film, you need to present something original to make it worthwhile. “Train to Busan” & “One Cut of the Dead” are two great examples that show how much more
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Before he got famous for remaking The Mummy, Stephen Sommers was responsible for a cult classic horror known as Deep Rising. The film is about a cruise ship that is hijacked, and then becomes an all you can eat buffet for giant monstrous worms. This movie is goopy and gory as heck There are scenes
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Large ticks. Blood, pus, and slime. Violent marijuana farmers. Need I say more? ‘Ticks’ is a 1993 insect-monster movie where a marijuana farmer (played by the always enchanting Clint Howard) is using a chemical steroid to grow his plants at a greater rate, but the machine begins leaking through the floor boards and directly on
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Following the reboot/sequel trend or requel as we are calling it now, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows the events of the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre film 50 years later. The results are gory kills but the trade-off is some rather clunky moments. The plot sees a group of woke people coming to Harlow, Texas, and being
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