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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.
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street" (2010)
There was nothing really wrong with this remake. Actually, it was pretty damn good. Sure, there was tons of unnecessary CGI, yeah it wasn't Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger, YES the original A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 (Elm Street) was better, but this was good, damn good.
By Reed Alexander6 years ago in Horror
'The Turning' Review
The Turning is the latest film adaptation of the book The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Here, the setting has been updated to the 1990’s. Kate Mandell (MacKenzie Davis) is hired to be the private tutor for a little girl named Flora (Brooklynn Prince), an orphan who lives in an old mansion with her brother, Miles (Finn Wolfhard), and their housekeeper, Mrs. Grose (Barbara Marten). Flora is still haunted by her parents’ untimely deaths, and Miles is a borderline sociopath. But it also appears that something else is going on in the house; possibly something supernatural.
By Will Lasley6 years ago in Horror
trick or treat, horror movie review
Halloween, a time of free candy, doorbell rings, scary movies, and costumed kids abound, and there are alot of great halloween based movies such as the correctly named Halloween, however today i am gonna be reviewing on of my personal favorites, the halloween based anthology movie, Trick or Treat. This film is told from a non-linear prospective although all the seperate stories do tie together in by the mysterious orange footie pajama wereing sack-masked child sized figure known only as Sam who appears in all of the stories. Now this type of genre again is a very easy one to mess up and can quickly go off the rails if handled by the wrong director but this director clearly knew exactly what he was doing. There wa a story of a killer school principal who poisoned a fat kid who didnt obey the rules of halloween (which we find out later is what sam is there for), and i love how sam simply takes candy from the principal and leaves very innocently but it really hides something un-human that we get to see in full view later.
By Dylan Slater 6 years ago in Horror
13 sins, a horror film review
I love the main plot of 13 sins, with the corrupt game show host forcing the less han willing participant into his sick games, a tuly wonderful horror film plot but yet one that is so easy to mess up. This film does just that, it messes it up in alot of ways, and it's first flaw was it's short build up of the main character, in a time of only fourteen minutes, and we get a very generic bland guy who is in need of financial help, this being a plot point that is wayyyyyyyyyyyy to over-used.
By Dylan Slater 6 years ago in Horror
'Underwater' Movie Review
After an earthquake destroys their base of operations deep in the Mariana Trench, an aquatic research team (Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, T.J. Miller, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr., Mamoudou Athie) is left trapped, you guessed it, underwater. Now they must cross the ocean floor on foot to make it to another station in order to survive. Unfortunately, they aren’t alone down there, and they have no way of contacting the surface world.
By Will Lasley6 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Bubba Ho-Tep' (2002)
If it wasn't for the internet, this would've become just another cult classic... I guess that sorta means it still is a cult classic, but this movie could have faded into obscurity if it was released only a couple years earlier in the late 90s. Meaning, they kinda lucked out riding the crest of the internet age. Right at the start of it all, a time when you could still go viral but right before going viral had lost all meaning.
By Reed Alexander6 years ago in Horror
'Gretel & Hansel' Movie Review
In this new take on the classic story of Hansel and Gretel, teenage girl Gretel (Sophia Lillis) is forced out of her house by her deranged mother after she refuses to be the servant (and "more") to a rich man. She must now fend for both herself and her younger brother, Hansel (Samuel Leakey). After wandering through the wilderness, starving, they come upon the house of a strange, isolated old woman (Alice Krige) who takes them in. Of course, you all know where the story goes from here.
By Will Lasley6 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'The Lodge'
The Lodge gets off to a stunning start and rarely lets up on the oppressive atmosphere and that’s what makes it so brilliant. The Lodge stars Riley Keough as Grace. As a child, Grace was the lone survivor of a doomsday cult, run by her eccentric, Preacher, Father, which committed mass suicide. It appears, though Grace dressed up for the ritual, including Duct Tape across her mouth with the word ‘Sin’ written on it, that Grace was the designated survivor.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'The Crazies' (2010)
This just wasn't as much fun as the original. Now, I'm not saying the original was good, I actually thought it was kind of boring considering the concept they had to work with. The difference between the original and the remake can be spelled out by tone and pacing. So far as tone goes, the original mixed a level of absurdity with the violence. Yeah there were rampaging lunatics, but some of them were fun rampaging lunatics. It gave you the idea that the virus might cause you to be violent, but in random and even wacky ways. We're not talking comedy levels here, just enough to note the difference.
By Reed Alexander6 years ago in Horror
