The Snowtown Murders, Justin Kurzel’s directorial debut is an unsettling and unflinching look at the true story of John Justin Bunting; one of Australia’s most notorious serial killers. Also known as the “Bodies in Barrels Murders”, only one murder actually took place in Snowtown. The rest were committed in several different locations in South Australia […]
Written and directed by Austin Chick, Girls Against Boys is a unique and interesting take on the rape/revenge genre. In fact, to pigeonhole it as simply a rape/revenge movie would be a disservice. It’s more of an exploration of the old adage “Hell hath no fury like a women scorned.” Shae (Danielle Panabaker) is a […]
A good friend of mine posed this question to me this past weekend: “If you wanted to watch movies for 24 hours on Halloween, what would your list look like?” For the sake of ease in this, he told me to assume every movie was 2 hours long. I really loved this question, so I […]
The Skin I Live In ‘The Skin I Live In’ or ‘La piel que habito’ as it’s known in its home language is a 2011 body horror film like no other. Directed by the acclaimed Pedro Almodóva, he describes it as ‘”a horror story without screams or frights” which is exactly why it makes this […]
Director: Alexandre Aja Writer: Alexandre Aja, Gregory Levasseur Stars: Cecile De France, Maiwenn, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun High Tension is a really good horror/thriller, sharing traits with classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween. Its strength lies with the searing performances and brilliant suspense building techniques, but its weakness is that it’s too over the top. At times it goes so overboard […]
Escape From Tomorrow, written and directed by Randy Moore is a testosterone infused fever dream of a movie. Shot in black and white, the film looks really beautiful considering it was filmed in Disneyland and Disney World without permission. Yes, Randy Moore used guerilla film making tactics and made a horror/fantasy/drama within the golden gates […]
Imagine my delight when I came across a movie titled “Frankenqueen”; it has a couple of stars in it’s viewers ratings and is classified as Horror. Here is the Netflix description: “A getaway at a plastic surgeon’s Malibu mansion turns deadly for a group of young men as their mad scientist hostess implements a homicidal […]
Description from IMDB: After her mother’s mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to recent bloodshed and chaos. Notable actors: Brad Dourif (of course), Fiona Dourif (his real-life daughter), Danielle Bisutti, A Martinez My thoughts: I did not go into […]
As if horror remakes didn’t anger people enough already, we now have a sequel to a remake. If you haven’t seen the original 1978 film I Spit On Your Grave, you’ve certainly heard of it. Carrying the dubious honor of having the longest rape scene in film history, I Spit On Your Grave seemed an […]
Hellbent is an independent horror movie that I happened to stumble upon on Netflix some years ago. We’re all familiar with the Netflix horror selection:it’s a lot like playing Russian Roulette sometimes. So, after a few poor choices on my part, I chose to revisit Hellbent. Directed by Paul Etheredge, it may be low budget, […]