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Movie reviews for horror fans; from gruesome bone-chillers to dark horror thrillers, a showcase for frightful films that seek to entertain and to terrify.
'Blue Velvet': Frank Booth's Strange Mind
David Lynch's Blue Velvet is a largely acclaimed film, and deservedly so. It's one of those films that's not so easy to characterize — perhaps even more so than Lynch's other films. It's definitely on the weird side, but not so overpoweringly weird that it's ultra-artsy. It may not be an outright horror movie yet it definitely has creepy moments throughout. Plus, who would say Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) wouldn't fit in somewhere in horror's mad villain pantheon? He definitely is not a good guy, and says and does some things that are downright freaky. So, even though Wikipedia brands this a "neo-noir mystery film," there's enough disturbing stuff going on which make Blue Velvet disturbing.
By Wade Wainio6 years ago in Horror
'Come to Daddy' Movie Review
From longtime horror film producer, but first time director, Ant Timpson, Come to Daddy is the classic tale of a son, Norval (Elijah Wood), attempting to reconnect with his estranged father (Stephen McHattie), who abandoned him and his mother when Norval was little. However, Norval’s dad is extremely competitive and macho, and in an effort to gain his respect, Norval keeps trying to impress him. But their pissing contest goes horribly awry, and it leads down a dark and twisted rabbit hole.
By Will Lasley6 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of C.H.U.D. (1984)
This movie is pretty bad, but for what it is, it's actually quite good. And I don't mean 'so bad it's good,' I mean actually good. And I'm not grading on a curve here. Don't misunderstand me, there is so much about this movie that is jut flat out bad that it should fit into the category of good-bad movies. In fact, I struggle to place it anywhere else. It's a bit of a paradox, a movie being both good and bad while not technically being good-bad.
By Reed Alexander6 years ago in Horror
The invisible man.. my review
Ok so this film were so I begin, it is oh so very predictable honestly it starts with the villains girlfriend Cecilia’s fleeing, and it is this that sends the abusive, sociopathic, and overly possessive Griffin (our main antagonist) into a spiral of pure deranged, and utter manipulative path of pure sociopathic and possessive REVENGE!!!. he does this by faking his own suicide and then having his brother getting involved to collaborate his story, and then he dons a suit lined with billions of tiny cameras so as to physically disappear from the whole world, and then he sets of on his plan to gaslight his ex who for her perceived “betrayal” of him. Honestly credit were credit is due I think this movie does a great great great job of portraying the post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that many abuse victims go thru after they escaped there abusive relationships, and this movie very cleverly combined the hollow man-esque science with abuse victim mentality and remake of a black and white horror film and u got a recipe for a genius film.
By Dylan Radford6 years ago in Horror
'Swallow' Movie Review
Swallow is the story of Hunter Conrad (Haley Bennett). She has just married a very attractive and successful man (Austin Stowell), and they have a baby on the way. But it soon begins to dawn on her that her husband is controlling every aspect of her life, and she starts to feel the walls closing in on her. As a result of her stress, she develops a very unhealthy habit on a whim: pica, the compulsion to eat inedible objects. As those around her try to help her, it quickly becomes clear that she still has some repressed demons from her past.
By Will Lasley6 years ago in Horror
My review of "Constantine"
I remember seeing the trailers for Constantine back in 2005. It seemed like an interesting movie but I never got the chance to watch it. I've had several chances to watch this film but there was always something that got in the way. Fortunate for me there's this thing called Netflix started streaming this movie 15 years after it came out. After finally getting to watch this movie, I can say I understand why some people liked it so much.
By Brian Anonymous6 years ago in Horror
'VFW' Movie Review
VFW is about a group of aging veterans hanging out in their local VFW bar: Fred (Stephen Lang), Walter (William Sadler), Abe (Fred "The Hammer" Williamson), Lou (Martin Kove), Doug (David Patrick Kelly), and Thomas (George Wendt). While the gang is celebrating Fred's birthday, a teenager (Sierra McCormick) seeks shelter from an unknown assailant. They then learn that she stole from a gang leader (Travis Hammer), whose new drug H.Y.P.E., has thrown the whole city into chaos. Now the bar is under siege from a band of raving H.Y.P.E. tweakers, and it's up to the old pros, along with a newly-returned younger solider named Shawn (Tom Williamson), to fend off the lunatics.
By Will Lasley6 years ago in Horror
Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” as an example of a modern masterpiece with an inherently intersectional message - a Case Study
The Integration of an Idea My hope is that this analysis shows the reader an example of a film narrative that runs on the terms of power and privilege versus systematic oppression and fleshes out again how insane our reasoning for violence and isolation of power is. The possibilities for a whole library of film analysis based on feminist narrative theory remain virtually untapped and such work could lead into the creation of an art form that does not repeat propaganda and cash in on human suffering, but depicts the existing mentality truthfully while transforming it’s audience with knowledge of defects and presenting the view point of a character we, unlike "the heroes", are accustomed to.
By Taimi Nevaluoma6 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Color Out of Space' (2019)
Back in my review of Mandy, (2018) I complained that I didn't get the ultimate Nick Cage experience I was promised. I was told it would be full force, category 5, Nicolas Cage. I was expecting Cage to deliver the ham of godly proportions. The reason this was so important to me, is that it was litmus test for this movie, Color Out of Space (2019).
By Reed Alexander6 years ago in Horror
Scary Disney: Snow White: The Evil Queen
Once upon a time a sweet innocent, naive, young girl lived with her vain, wicked, self-centred, jealous step-mother. And jealous of Snow White she was. The Queen was cruel enough to want her own child killed just because a talking mirror told her she wasn’t the fairest in all the land. So she sends her Huntsman into the forest with Snow White and orders for him to kill her and bring back her heart in a box. But, the Huntsman doesn’t have the heart to do it, he tells Snow White the Queen is out to get her and she should run away. Deep in the forest she finds a cottage, a dwarfs cottage, she cooks and cleans for the dwarfs but the Queen finds her, turns into an old peddler woman, poisons her with an apple, runs away from the dwarfs but plunges to her death after falling off a rock. A prince finds her in the forest and wakes her with true loves kiss, they live happily ever after. Though they do live happily ever after, a few scenes from the movie do enough to give you nightmares.
By Sara Sparrow6 years ago in Horror
