tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67824050601391494082012-05-28T01:05:00.180-07:00Welcome to the horror blog. Enter the World of horror, terror, gore, exploitation, drive-in and trash film reviewsJohnny 666http://www.blogger.com/profile/01327243894361186507noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782405060139149408.post-2427864046453078042009-05-29T06:03:00.001-07:002009-05-29T06:03:35.688-07:00

The Unholy was a film that had an awful lot of good going for it, but like the teenage boys who have rented this back in the day, it blew it's load all over the floor after the hot redhead shows up naked in the first minute of screen time. Me, I'm a sucker for any film that deals with possession, the catholic church and priests. I guess it was my upbringing, but nothing terrifies me more than the

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Anyone who reads here knows that I dont post that regularly. My initial reason for starting this blog was to have a record for all the garbage I watch, be it good, bad or ugly, with the intention of moving to a website based review format eventually. I also planned to have other horror writing intermingled in the reviews, to create a more rounded horror esperience. I just didn't know how to

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The 70's sure was an interesting time for horror. After The Exorcist managed to stomp through the box office like Big Foot on a raping spree through a school yard, it showed that the genre didn't have to be relegated to the second bill on a B movie matinee to make some serious cash. It was the perfect coupling of big budget, hot young director and a talented cast, and this formula was thankfully

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Is there such a thing as a film being TOO much fun? I dunno, it's a thought that has been running through my head whilst watching some of my recent sicko fests. Some films may have a slow but steady build up with a wicked pay off, such as Re-Animator, Evil Dead and Braindead. These seem to get the balance right, courting the line between suspense, character, and balls out grossness with expert

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Right, I know I've been a slacker lil bitch lately and barely been posting, but to be honest, I got a fat wad of excuses this time! I swear! I just bought a house a few weeks ago and have been doing it up after work, meaning I've been working around the clock to get the fucker into a nice and pristine state for living. It's getting there. And then Carl over at http://

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I decided to have a bit of a George C Scott night the other day. And seeing as I mentioned Hardcore in my Cruising review last month, I thought I would dig this one out again for a spin on the end of my weiner.Scott plays Jake Van Dorn, a Calvinist and conservative business man who seems to have everything going right for him. That is, until his teenage daughter Kristen disappears whilst away at

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I'm not much of a man for Manga or Anime to be honest. I've only seen about half a dozen or so films, and while I have liked what I watched, I generally don't go seeking for titles as I would with other genres. But saying that, if I were the kind of man to make a top 100 list of all time, including all genres, I'm pretty sure Perfect Blue would be on there somewhere, and quite possibly in a

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As most of my friends know, I'm a pretty big fan of HP Lovecraft. I regularly re-read his stories, and find that his way of looking at horror is greatly affecting my own approach to writing. But what is it about his stories that just doesn't generally work for the big screen, unless drastically altered? Look at Stuart Gordon's films for example, as he has probably filmed more Lovecraft stories

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Like alot of horror fans out there that went looking for the next great scare flick, we plundered the Asian horror market for whatever we could get our hands on, leaving no dark haired ghost lady unturned. We had good reason to do so, the Asian market had spawned such terrifying wonders as Ringu, Dark Waters, Juon - the Grudge, and a Tale of Two Sisters. By the time Takashi Miike started ripping

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I have been a bold little bollix over the last few months and been neglecting the sleazier side of my viewing needs. It's swings and roundabouts for me in terms of what I watch, some months I will watch nothing but exploitation and 70's porn, then for the next 6 months it will be a straight up horror binge. There just isn't enough hours in the day to watch the shit I wanna watch, but sometimes I

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It's been awhile since I reviewed a trashy, yet awesome, action film. And yup, Road House falls into that category. I will bar fight any man or woman who disagrees with me on this. It's probably the biggest piece of overblown bullshit ever to ejaculate from the viagra pumped boner that was the 80's Hollywood machine, and you gotta love it for that very reason.The basic plot? We use that word

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Are any readers of this blog in, or have ever been in, a fraternity? I'm not American, so the concept is novel enough to me. What knowledge I do have of them has been lifted from the big screen. If you are to believe flicks like Terror Train and Night of the Creeps, corpses seem to play a surprisingly prevailant role in initiation, and the frat is usually populated by smarmy rich pricks. Unless,

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It always makes me smile when looking back at certain films made in the 70's and 80's and pondering on what the intent was for making it. It was prime time for exploitation films, and some of my all-time favorite shockers come from this seedy period. A time for zero budgeted filmmakers and producers to make a quick and sleazy buck. But hand in hand with this we also had some more mainstream

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It's hard these days to find anything fresh in the zombie genre. The last ten years have seen such a resurgence in it that I for one am actually sick to my hairy boobs of looking at the shambling dead. Thanks to Resident Evil, 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead (remake) and Shaun of the Dead, every Tom, Dick and lazy zero budgeted filmmaker has hacked out a cheap knock off, or knock off's of knock

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It's seldom these days I bother making the trek to theatres to see new releases. I've just had one too many bad experiences to be arsed handing over my not-so-hard earned cash to have most of the audience piss me off throughout the movie. With home theatre systems being so cheap and accessible for the average Joe, I expect I ain't the only one abandoning the red sticky carpet and overpriced

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Howdy doody campers! Yup, it's been another long gap since I last peeble-dashed the internet with a wet fart of a review, but it's a new year and I got me some fresh brown babies coming down the U-bend.Inside is one of those kinda flicks that exploded onto horror audiences last year from a very strong word-of-mouth at the festival frontlines. Alot of reviewers seemed on the verge of having

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This is one of those films that was always mentioned in excited and hushed tones by metal and NIN fans alike back in the day. It was around the time when NIN brainchild and frontman Trent Reznor rented the Tate murder home to record The Downward Spiral, rumours surfaced over a supposed snuff film being produced by the band. It was one of those things I had forgotten about until recently when I

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Director Kevin Tenney will probably be best remembered for a certain little splatter-and-sleaze fest known as Night of the Demons, (not to be mixed up with that loveable 'Bigfoot the rapist' flick, Night of the Demon), but thanks to the fine folks at Anchor Bay, we can enjoy his debut feature again, fully restored and remastered.Ah yes, there is nothing like dicking around with a ouija board to

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It's seldom that I'm in the right kind of mood to watch a genuinely old school film (i.e, something made before the 60's), but when I do, I always kick my own ass for not watching them more frequently. Over the course of Halloween I decided to give myself a few bitch slaps and dragged out my Val Lewton collection for a first time viewing. The first one out of the gates was Jacques Tourneur's

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I think most people find the idea of ending up on the slap in a mortuary to be one hell of a disturbing thought. Sure, you will be dead, but fuck it, do you really want people poking around in your insides even if you won't know about it? After watching a film like Nacho Cerda's Aftermath, it brings the idea of "poking around in your insides" to it's worst possible conclusion. But lately American

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Ah yes, another one of those fond memeories from my auld flower Mark Cousins back in the mid 90's. For anyone who doesn't know or remember, Mark Cousins was this edgy little guy who used to present a series of cult films every week on the BBC, and they ranged from everything from old Peckinpah films, up to splatter like Society. What a guy! He introduced me to many a great flick, and will be

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Neil Marshall had a tough act to follow after the laughs and gore of Dog Soldiers, and the balls out claustrophobic terror of The Descent. After two home runs like that, it wasn't going to be long before the money men came to Marshall's door and offered him carte blanche on making whatever the hell he wanted. So Marshall decides to direct a script he wrote years ago that was an hommage to his

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At the rate foreign horror films are being remade at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised if things ended up like they did during the production of Tod brownings 1931 version of Dracula; when his crew went home at the end of each days shooting, another film crew came on set and shot the film again, only this time using the same script but just Spanish actors, and the film was released in a

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Yeah, I know that most of you are thinking I can't even read let alone sit through a Swedish art house film, but you would be suprised what I fit in between enema porn and the 300th viewing of Evil Dead II. Hour of the Wolf is probably one of the most unusual films I have seen ever to have the 'horror' tag placed on it, and no, I don't mean unusual in terms of "wow, that film had an unusually

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Deathdream certainly is an odd little film. The follow up flick from 'Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things' director Bob Clark and producer Alan Ormsby, the film by-passes the previous genre entries comedic trash feel for a stark little chiller with alot heart and political message. The fact that it works is even more suprising!We open in Vietnam. An unknown soldier takes a slug in the back

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