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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.

'Us' (2019)
Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape;and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
By Peter P7 years ago in Horror
'Midsommar' Movie Preview
Young director Ari Aster sprang onto the scene with 2018's Hereditary, a genuinely scary horror film that was one of the years most talked about. What made it even more of an achievement was that Hereditary was his feature debut after a few short films: The Strange Thing About The Johnsons (2011) and Munchausen (2013).
By Neil Gregory7 years ago in Horror
My Analysis of 'The Shining' (Pt. 2)
Jack Torrance, the vilain and victim of the story 1. The mirror The three images displayed on the mirror, located in the couple’s bedroom, at the beginning, the middle and the end of the movie, beautifully sum up the transformation Jack goes through from the first time he wakes up in the hotel’s apartment to the moment he tries to kill his family.
By Flora Silver7 years ago in Horror
My Analysis of 'The Shining'
Today, I want to share my fascination for the movie The Shining, which talks to me on so many levels, with its haunting setting, tormented characters and countless hidden messages. This is my interpretation of the story and I completely understand that some or most of you may disagree with the way I see this movie, how it made me feel and the lessons I learnt by watching it numerous times.
By Flora Silver7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'The Intruder Within' (1981)
Look at that retro 70s-80s VHS cover art! Look at that hammy rubber monster mark. That shit was straight outta Fangoria! And I thought Xtro II was hard to find. Again I had to use an alternative search function to pull up the IMDb archive page, and even deeper to find the full movie (which had subtitles in three different languages). I kept getting error messages trying to bring the page up on IMDb. It's probably so deeply archived there's some lone external hard drive somewhere that likely had to power up when their server tried to get the info.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Five Takeaways from First Trailer for '47 Meters Down: Uncaged'
47 Meters Down was a shocking and surprising hit movie in 2017 that appeared to arrive out of absolutely nowhere. The film starring a pre-This is Us Mandy Moore, alongside Clair Holt as young sisters trapped in a shark cage while on a fantasy vacation, was made on a shoestring, $6 million dollar budget, went on to gross more than $61 million dollars worldwide. Naturally, despite an ending that doesn’t exactly tease a sequel, producers are eager to capitalize on the hit.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
'El Bar' (2017)
Hey, a little respect.We’re all human beings here.We have to stick together and stay calm. El Bar pretends to be a thriller comedy, but falls short on both levels. The film leans rather towards the comedy genre. But in terms of thriller, it’s a bit too weak. What’s actually the ultimate cause of the incident witnessed by a number of persons isn’t really clear in the end. Are they witnessing a terrorist attack? Or is it the umpteenth viral outbreak? Or are we going back on a zombie tour? If the latter were the case, the film would fit more into the horror genre. It’s not clearly explained. But I think it’s a combination of these assumptions. When you look at the opening sequence, full of microscopic viruses and other whimsical creatures from the microbial world, you are already assuming that some pandemic will break out. But again, it isn’t really clear.
By Peter P7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Creature' (1985)
MAN, you know you're the Kmart version of another franchise when the picture on IMDb is a faded crinkled movie poster, creases intact.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Crypt TV Fables: Who Is the Piper?
I discovered Crypt TV a few months ago when an episode of Jon Solo's Messed Up Origins series covered the story of the Pied Piper. I subsequently went back and watched some of their other videos and was impressed with what I found.
By Greg Seebregts7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: 'Brightburn' Fails to Fire Up Scares
Brightburn ruined my day. I was in a good mood before I saw this nasty, brutal, B-movie. What if Superman were evil, and Ma and Pa Kent were morons; that's the premise of Brightburn. Take the paragon of virtue, Superman, and make him a figure of ugly malevolence. Subversion is a perfectly suitable goal, but you’d better have a good point to said subversion, be it merely an interesting thinkpiece or an alt-world comic book. Unfortunately, all Brightburn has is a premise, and a taste for blood.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'The Color Out of Space' (2010)
AKA 'The title soon to be added to horror movies ruined by Nicolas Cage' The Color Out Of Space (2019/2020). This story by H. P. Lovecraft has had dozens of cinematic adaptations, all of which did things right and things wrong. Colour From The Dark (2008) was the first movie I ever reviewed, and is the reason my blog went from politics to horror reviews. The review took up maybe six lines, but got triple the hits of any of my long winded political opinions, and the rest is history.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Comparison: 'Cell' vs. 'Zombieland'
Unconventional genre Zombieland is a comedy. It sort of misses the point of the original zombie film genre (our world and civilisation could crumble with a bite or two). But it's a whole-lot of friggin' fun (dah—there's a Bill Murry cameo!), and it does touch on consumerism as a pattern of bad behaviour... so, yeah—in a roundabout way—there's something political or semi-philosophical in this comical rendering of the original chomp film genre.
By Ben Rider7 years ago in Horror