Too many horror movies try to separate themselves from the pack by increasing the amount of blood and gore they throw across the screen, hoping that if the audience is grossed out enough they won’t notice the weakness of the plot or the thinness of the characters. That’s why it’s such a refreshing experience to […]
I didn’t like Peelers. At least, I didn’t like it the first time I saw it. I didn’t like the story or the characters, the effects looked cheap and the acting was, to be kind, uninspired. But the ending shocked me; it thrilled and haunted me. It made me go back and watch Peelers a second time. […]
It’s an almost true story that started way back in 1984… You don’t have to be a fan of Troma Studio movies to be familiar with their franchise freak, The Toxic Avenger. What started as an R-Rated horror/comedy about a wimpy health club mop boy named Melvin Junko who gets thrown into a vat of […]
Tsunambee. It’s a great title, a title that fills your imagination with images of wave after wave after wave of killer bees rolling over hundreds, perhaps thousands of ‘innocent’ people vainly trying to flee from the death by a million stings. (Those allergic to bee stings, if course, violently explode in a burst of blood, […]
Johnny Taylor (Randy Wayne) has big problems. Ever since his evil, but hot babysitter Debbie (Jessica Louise Long) tried to drown him in the backyard pool when he was a boy, he’s been so afraid of water that he won’t even drink it. Some 20 years after the incident, for some inexplicable reason, he takes […]
You sure do get a lot of movie with Chicago Rot: the revenge movie; the gory horror movie; the twisted fantasy film; and, the sometimes laughable ‘What the heck?’ movie. Not all the movies fit well together in a satisfactory way, but that doesn’t mean watching Chicago Rot isn’t a lot of fun. The film […]
Before they even walk in the door and the credits for The Belko Experiment can roll, the employees of Belko Industries know it’s not going to be a normal workday at their remote Colombian headquarters. Not only are there heavily armed guards checking every car entering the parking lot for explosives and contraband, but more […]
When the communications link to a remote energy reclamation facility breaks down in the film Atomica, a young repair tech named Abby (Sarah Habel) gets dropped off to fix the problem. It isn’t too long before she figures out that being able to call the office is the least of the worries of the two […]
Back in 1973, horror fans were entertained by a grisly low-budget film called Don’t Look in the Basement, the story of the inmates literally taking over the asylum and slaughtering the staff. The movie ended on a haunting note with the last survivor, a mentally challenge African American named Sam, calmly eating a Popsicle and […]
Zombie film fans have a new hero, and her name is Rita, the Bavarian barmaid (played by Margarete Tiesel) who joins a pair of hot-shot young skiers to stop the infected from taking over a rundown mountain resort, the village at the bottom of the slopes and, eventually the world. Directed by Austrian filmmaker Dominik […]
The one rule that almost all horror movies have in common is that the terror usually takes place on a dark and stormy night: It’s a rare scare that works well in the light of day. Deadly Virtues: Love.Honour.Obey. is a near perfect exception to that rule. Directed by Ate de Jong, the film tells […]