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Grabbers – Review
Irish director Jon Wright brings us a genre film that is both fun and very well made. I’ve been following a lot of the recent flics from the UK lately and have found that there’s a healthy surge in the sci-fi/horror genre. Grabbers is an excellent example, bringing monsters, gore and a few laughs along
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Evil Dead (2013) – Review
Fede Alvarez proves he has the chops to handle the viscerally raw energy of today’s horror, re-imagining a cherished classic among genre fans. Evil Dead was director Sam Raimi’s baby that pushed the boundaries of shock horror way back in 1981. Alvarez takes the framework of Raimi’s The Evil Dead and breathes new life into
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Girls Against Boys – Review
Austin Chick brings us yet another take on the female vengeance story where girls take up arms to deal out their own brand of justice on the sexually aggressive male population. Girls Against Boys feels tired and pointless on the surface, but there’s a deeper psychological thread struggling to keep the film together. Unfortunately even
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Stitches – Review
Conor McMahon (Dead Meat) directs this horror slapstick about a clown that comes back from the dead to haunt those who took his life during a fatal party mishap. Stitches is a laughable gorefest that is comically twisted and fun, with a killer that may just end up being one of this generations slasher icons!
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Hansel & Gretel Get Baked – Review
Normally shit like this doesn’t interest me at all, but Duane Journey and David Tillman have slapped together a stoner flic that is actually pretty entertaining. Hansel & Gretel Get Baked is a silly but fun, albeit gory re-imagining of the classic tale of two children that defeat a flesh eating witch, who now lives
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Warm Bodies – Review
Jonathan Levine (50/50) directs this romantic horror comedy that is unexpectedly better than I had imagined. Zombie comedies are not new to the genre, but they rarely achieve greatness. Warm Bodies may not actually achieve that greatness, but it comes damn close! After R (a highly unusual zombie) saves Julie from an attack, the two
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Spiders 3D – Review
Tibor Takacs directs this (what I’m assuming) straight to video film about mutated space spiders stalking the streets of New York. Spiders is definitely a step up from the average Asylum type movies, but not much. After a small piece of a Soviet space station crashes into a New York City subway tunnel, a species
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – Review
After the cult hit Dead Sno, I anxiously awaited writer/director Tommy Wirkola’s next genre film. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is that film. Wirkola’s reminds me of a younger Raimi with his over the top action horror. There’s no asking “hey, is that plausible?”, nope, it’s more like “hey, that’s f’n awesome!” His films aren’t
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American Mary – Review
Jen and Sylvia Soska write and direct this modern horror where a medial student uses her skills to exact revenge on those who’ve harmed her. American Mary is a haunting vision of surgical body manipulation that stays with you long after the film ends. The story follows a talented medical student, Mary Mason, as she
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Deadheads – Review
With the zombie romance/comedy Warm Bodies coming soon, I though I’d venture into the zom-com genre, actually a sub genre that seems to be growing in popularity with films like Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, and Fido. Brothers, Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce take the zom-com on a road trip as two cognisant, speaking
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The Loved Ones – Review
Every once in a while, among the truly awful schlock, there emerges a Horror film that is just so visceral that it succeeds in almost every way to capture the genre’s finer points. The Loved Ones is an Australian horror movie made in 2009, that features a deranged family kidnapping High School boys for their
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The Possession – Movie Review
Against recommendations to avoid this new on DVD film, I decided to give it a chance. I’m usually more fair to the underdog due to my tastes, however this movie deserves its’Â criticism: It’s uninspired, unoriginal and formulaic. Forgetting that The Possession is based on a true story, let’s get into why this movie fails
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Sinister – Review
Scott Derrickson, director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, returns to the genre with what is sure to be a new seasonal scarefest ranking up there with the SAWs and Paranormal Activitys that haunt the Halloween circuit every year. Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his
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A Cadaver Christmas – Review
First, I want to thank Level 33 for sending me screeners of their latest features. They are also sending me a copy of A Cadaver Christmas to give away FREE to one of my lucky readers. Watch the trailer. One of the characters is The Janitor…. list the other 5 in the comments section below.
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Resident Evil: Retribution – Review
Paul W.S. Anderson and wife Milla Jovovich dive once again into the action packed, undead mutant filled world of Resident Evil. Based on the popular Capcom video game franchise, Retribution is high on action but has the depth and attention span of a 12 year old with attention deficit disorder. The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus
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