Demonic forces have your number is the 80s classic 976-Evil. This is the directorial debut from Robert Englund and you can see the influence his building legacy had on this film. We see a bullied teen who dials 976-Evil and ends up with a direct line to the forces of hell itself. He gains supernatural …
In 1982, Taiwanese director William Chang Kee released an animal attack film that was intended to be exploitive, shocking, and violent. What he accomplished was something that still rings true to this day on a multitude of levels. In “Calamity of Snakes”, a wealthy businessman has hired a highly-regarded young architect to complete a high-rise …
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Holiday horrors can be a mixed bag, which is definitely the case with Don’t Open Until Christmas. It’s not good, and it’s not entirely awful, it’s just okay. This is a British slasher from 1984 about a serial killer who targets anyone dressed as Santa Claus and murders them in various ways. The kills are …
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A drunk man is on his way home from the bar one night to see his daughter for her birthday. On the way, he is attacked and kidnapped. He wakes up in a flat that he cannot exit – but it has cable television, fake windows, a functioning bathroom, and a door with a slot …
Mario Bava is an Italian Director who is often accredited as one of the OG’s of modern horror cinema. He always had grand, fantastical stories that were showcased in some of the most lived-in and fleshed out sets ever seen in a horror film. They were usually reminiscent of the original Gothic Universal Picture styles, …
If given the choice after your death, would you rather have one day to come back and make peace with those you loved, or would you rather live an eternity as a ghost who could only be seen by those who believe or have wronged you? This is the exact question at the heart of …
The third film, Puppet Master III: Toulan’s Revenge serves as a prequel, and gives us a little backstory of Toulan and his puppets. The plot deals with Andre Toulan who attracted the wrong kind of attention from Nazis. They kill his wife in cold blood, so Toulan naturally takes his revenge on the ones responsible. …
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Today’s entry is a hybrid of the foreign and flashback entries. “Diabolique” (french for ‘Devil’), is a simple black-&-white film about a hurting wife and her husband’s mistress, and their plan to get rid of him. If you’ve heard of stories covering this territory before, I believe it’s safe to say this is one of …
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False Positive is a movie that plays on a couple of fears that most people have. What if I am not able to conceive? Or if I am able to conceive, what if something happens to the baby? I seen articles that compare this movie to Rosemary’s Baby, which to be fair, I can see …
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