Category Archives: Horror Reviews

DVD Review: ‘Roger Corman’s Cult Classics: Vampires, Mummies, & Monsters’

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Matt Blackwood

If you love old B-movies, you can’t miss Shout Factory’s line of “Roger Corman’s Cult Classics” DVD collections. Horror, fantasy, science fiction, grindhouse- all are represented in these neat 3- and 4-film multi-packs. The Vampires, Mummies, and Monsters collection is … Continue reading →

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DVD Review: ‘Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer’

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Matt Blackwood

As technology gets smaller and cheaper, making films is getting easier and easier. But in a market lousy with low-budget indies, it’s not always easy to score well known actors. This wasn’t a problem for Mark Vadik. The writer/director of Cyrus: … Continue reading →

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Horror Blu-Ray Review: ‘Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale’

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Matt Raub

It’s rare that we ever come across a film that crosses two very different genres so seamlessly as the Finnish film Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. Based on the series of shorts in which a Finnish shipping company explains the … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Nat Almirall

Red State is a movie filmed straight from the first draft of the shooting script. Right from the opening shot of a small town, the cuts of scenery are so quick the audience doesn’t even know what they’re supposed to … Continue reading →

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Film Score Friday: ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Jonathan Weilbaecher

A couple years ago I named Christopher Young’s Drag Me To Hell as my favorite score of the year. It had all of the big, bold, bombastic sounds you think of with true gothic horror. What raised that score above … Continue reading →

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Film Review: ‘Scream 4’

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Shannon Hood

Good lord, has it already been over 10 years since the last Scream movie?  It’s hard to believe that Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven first turned the horror genre on its head way back in 1996 (Scream 3 came out … Continue reading →

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SXSW Film Review: ‘Insidious’

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Shannon Hood

Insidious was one film that was high on my list of priority to view at SXSW. Essentially a haunted house genre movie, the film is from writer Leigh Whannell and director James Wan, who previously worked together on Saw. No … Continue reading →

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Film Review: ‘The Rite’

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Shannon Hood

The whole exorcism theme has been to death in movies, and The Rite is one more reason it should be shelved for a while. No movie has been able to live up to the grand-daddy of them all, The Exorcist … Continue reading →

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