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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 'Phantoms' (1998)
I remember this being a pretty bad movie when I was a teenager growing up. I watched it again to determine if it was a good-bad movie or just another Ben Affleck bomb. I mean, Ben Affleck has a lot of bunker busters under his name, so it was kind of hard to set aside my memory of him and my memory of this movie.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Radius' (2017)
Here's the thing about this movie. There was a lot to hate about it, but a lot to love about it. It really felt like a ton of the plot was forced. I'm not sure if I can call it Deus Ex Machina, but there were definitely some corners the director or writer wrote themselves into and had to force their way out.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
'Gerald's Game' - A Review (Netflix)
A middle-aged couple, Jessie and Gerald Burlingame (Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood) goes to a remote lake house to try and spice up their marriage. As they drive, Gerald nearly hits a stray, hungry dog on the path to the house. Gerald has brought handcuffs and takes a Viagra tablet, planning for a kinky night of rough passion. As he starts to play, Jessie becomes uncomfortable and demands he let her out of the cuffs.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Horror
'He's Out There' - Review (Netflix)
Laura (Yvonne Strahovski), along with her daughters, Kayla and Maddie (real-life sisters Anna and Abigail Priowsky) are going to stay at a lake house, getting away from the city for the weekend. Her husband, Shawn (Justin Bruening) is delayed, and promises to meet them later that night. The three ladies go ahead.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Horror
The 2000s Movie Project: 'Scream 3'
The third entry in The 2000s Movie Project was the first blockbuster of this young century Scream 3. I won't lie to you, when it was released on February 11, 2000, I was a Scream 3 apologist. I defended the movie even as the critical consensus was dire. Naturally, I never revisited the movie again so as to preserve my opinion. Watching it again, from a more mature perspective, it's not that I was wrong, it's that I did not yet know how to determine how wrong I was.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
The (Old) New Flesh
Film critic the late Roger Ebert once famously quipped that the colors of the movie Videodrome were mostly "those of dried blood." That was perhaps overstating things, but not by much. It is, at any rate, one of those lines that has stayed with me since I first read it in an annual anthology of Ebert's reviews as a child, maybe more than thirty years ago.
By Tom Baker7 years ago in Horror
'Deadly Detention'—Review (Netflix)
Less than five minutes into Deadly Detention, a Netflix teen horror flick, and I knew it was going to be eye-wateringly awful. It opens with a girl running from an unseen threat, along narrow corridors in an abandoned building. We get a title card: Three days ago. We are on a bus with five teenagers. They are being driven to Wayview prison by Pete (Kevin Blake), who has a shrine to a deceased student, Jenny Duke, on his dashboard. Wayview, an old—now closed—prison, is to be used for Saturday detention.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Horror
Movie Review: The Original 'I Spit on Your Grave' Is Still Terrible
In the early 2000s, it became briefly hip amongst film cultists to defend Meir Zarchi's 1978 exploitation flick, I Spit on Your Grave. Cult film critic, Joe Bob Briggs, is on the record calling the film a "masterpiece of cinema.” So many stepped forward to defend the film, that it earned a special edition dvd release from Elite Entertainment to celebrate the film’s 25 year anniversary back in 2003. The dvd came complete with THX sound, tv spots, critic reviews, and two commentary tracks—one by the film’s director Meir Zarchi and the other by the aforementioned Joe Bob Briggs.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
'Escape Room' (2019)
Be the first to escape our most immersive rooms yetand win $10,000. Does coincidence exist? I’m starting to believe it. Coincidentally, I had just seen this movie and a few days later my wife received a birthday present from her brother: An entrance ticket for an escape room. My first reaction was, “Do I really have to go too?” That was meant as a joke because I don’t think we’ll experience such situations as in the movie Escape Room. I’ve done two of those escape rooms already (one we’ve finished successfully), and so, I know it’s nothing more than doing some old-fashioned puzzling to get out. No Saw-like conditions like in this film Escape Room. But mind you, there aren’t any extremities here as in Saw.
By Peter P7 years ago in Horror
'Cam' - A Review (Netflix)
When asking someone to rate something between one and ten, a score below six would be considered poor. Even a five-point-nine would make you think twice about watching a show. It’s like less than three stars—you wouldn’t stay in a hotel with less than three stars.
By Q-ell Betton7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Under The Skin' (2013)
SPOILERS!!! And what do we know about my reviews if they start with spoilers? They're usually about shitty movies... Why does this feel like a revenge rape porn? This is essentially about some strange alien entity that lures men to their death. So, it's basically a ton of scenes with the hot alien chick leading men to their death. Then finally, when she decides she wants to experiment with actually being human, she gets raped and murdered. It's like the director or the writer thinks every woman is essentially out to rob men of their life, and really they deserve the bad shit that happens to them. That seems to be the fucking moral of this flaming dumpster fire of a movie. The alien chick "deserves" her fate because that's what she was doing to men all along.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Remaking My Childhood (Pt. 2)
In my last chapter of this series (the only one written so far), I compared the novel and 1989 movie to the information given about the remake. Well, April 5th came and went and we were told an old tale with a new twist.
By Kathryn Parker7 years ago in Horror