Reed Alexander
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I'm a horror author and foulmouthed critic of all things horror. New reviews posted every Sunday.
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Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Deathgasm' (2015)
This is likely my new favorite horror comedy of the past ten years. Even beating out Tucker and Dale V. Evil and Zombie Land. It was just fan-fucking-tastic. New word of the day kitties..."Cocktopus." Let that swim around in your cranium for a little while. I'm basically just waiting for an excuse to call someone that.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead' (1994)
Eh, I was expecting this to be much worse than it was. Don't get me wrong, it’s bad, but I remember it being dreadful, nigh unwatchable. I mean, Angus always makes every instalment of the Phantasm franchise completely worth it with his presence (rest waiting in the nightmares of children, Angus). I have to say the same with his performance here. Regardless of how bad the movie is, he always stuns with his presentation to the Tall Man.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'They're Watching' (2016)
I'm gonna file this one under good-bad movies. It's supposed to be a horror comedy of sorts, but like Stung from my last review, it’s more like a horror movie with comedy elements. This, however, was not good horror, even for crappy B horror. Don't get me wrong, I appreciated the intentional hokey nature, and I'm glad the ending was pretty cheese-ball. But let’s not beat around the bush, this movie was awful, and they knew it was, so they decided to just have fun with it. And you know what? Good for them! This move would have sucked if they tried to take it seriously.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Spectral' (2016)
Alight, so this movie was pretty fucking decent. I don't know if I can say it's horror... it's definitely got horror elements, and in many ways is like the 80's classic Aliens. Yeah, I'm gonna go with horror. It gave that little bit more than World War Z. You couldn't just replace the "Specters" in this movie with the Taliban and essentially have the same movie. There was a fully developed sense of dread and helplessness that is really needed to define horror. The survival element wasn't in the background, it was ever present and deeply involved in the developing plot.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Doom' (2005)
You know what? I'll fucking say it. Doom wasn't that bad. It was kind of silly at times, definitely had fuck all to do with the video game, and certainly was trying to rip off Aliens, but it was fun. Isn't that all that matters? That the movie is fun?
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Apartment 143' (2011)
*Sigh* You know what's wrong with shaky camera movies? They're lazy. They're trying to make up for a lack of real atmosphere with shitty video and cheap action shots by waving the camera around. It didn't work with The Taking of Deborah Logan, it didn't work with Paranormal Activity, it didn't even work here. It's just bad filming, not a real use of the medium.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Viral' (2016)
Why the fuck is this movie called Viral? I mean, they tell you right off the bat that it's about parasites. They explain it right in the description. There's a whole damn exposé about parasites in the beginning of the damn movie. So why the fuck is it called Viral? Do they not know the difference between a parasite and a virus? I mean, even a single-celled parasite is different than a virus, let alone the multi-celled organisms in this movie. You could have called it "Infection" and you would have been closer than Viral.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'The Autopsy of Jane Doe' (2016)
I'm just gonna flat out say it. This is now on my list of :Must Watch." I don't care what's in your queue before this movie, watch this instead. Not only is this now on my must watch list with things like Yellowbrickroad and Digging Up the Marrow, it's also on my top five favorite list. In order: Alien, The Thing (1982), The Thing (2011), Autopsy of Jane Doe, Dawn of the Dead (2004)—I haven't see Hereditary or Suspiria (2018), but I'm told they might fight for the top five spot.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'The Void' (2016)
Let me just start out by saying, there was a LOT about this movie that was testing my fucking patience. It really prayed on "Weaker Sex Syndrome" far too often, and for a hot second, I could swear they were doing "Gladiator Moments." There was scene after scene of what seemed like completely unrelated artsy bullshit. Thank god I was wrong about that because I really wanted to like this movie just from the premise.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Dig Two Graves' (2014)
This movie is Oscar material as far as I'm fucking concerned. It also touches my hillbilly roots a little bit. So if you want an idea of the kinds of wife’s tales I grew up on, you can watch this movie and get a good feel for them.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Land Shark' (2017)
I was scrolling through Tubi which has a multitude of cheese movies and came across one entitled Land Shark. Apparently, my wife had seen this hot mess before and suggested it as a potential good-bad movie. I have to tell you, it did not disappoint. In the category of "So Bad It's Good" I'd place this gem along side the original Carnosaur. Of course, Carnosaur didn't have CGI to work with, so mostly all they had was a green screen and a dinosaur hand puppet. Land Shark doesn't leave out the hand puppet but I really wished they'd leaned on the practical FX more than CGI.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
