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The Last Man on Earth is a movie that I always heard very good about. I never saw it until recently. I might add that I’m a huge Vincent Price fan but I have seen surprisingly few of his movies. Sure, I’ve seen a few but there are many classics that I never got around to. The Las Man on Earth is one of them. So, you can say that I made up for lost...
Don’t Look was sold in, to be a slasher with a twist. It was also made a point on that it was directed by a woman. I don’t really see the relevance of that. A film doesn’t get better, or worse, on the gender of the person directing it. Not in my mind. A good movie is a good movie and gender has nothing to do with it. But I did like the cover art...
Crush the Skull is first and foremost a thriller I think. To some extent, I don’t consider a movie without supernatural parts a horror movie. That only goes so far though. Of course, a film about a deranged killer, as is the case in Crush the Skull, can qualify as a horror flick if it’s scary enough. Or, if the violence is over the top or something like that. But first and foremost it becomes...
Gods of the Deep is an Alien clone of sorts in a specially constructed submarine for extreme depths. I don’t know why I didn’t notice it right away on the covert art, but Gods of the Deep is clearly a Lovecraftian tale. The whole thing just screams about ancient Gods and from what you’ll see it’s almost impossible not to think of Cthulhu. But that’s not all it is. I think it’s actually a blend...
Since the full title of this movie – Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon is a bit long, I will keep referring to it as plain and simple Yeti. It’s a creature I was always fascinated by. I know that there are multiple names for this mythical creature. And, it also depends on where in the world it’s claimed to live. In the United States, it’s either Bigfoot or Sasquatch. But in the Himalayas it’s...
Fear Pharm is a crossover between a classic slasher and a hillbilly flick like Wrong Turn. That is to say that the victims don’t find the place where they are being hunted by accident. They are very well aware of where they are. Sort of. They know the place they have traveled to as a place where huge mazes are being made in the corn fields and that the employees there are meant to scare...
In Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Kiss is the largest music attraction in the world and they’ve come to play in this theme park. Meanwhile, Abner Devereaux, the park’s developer, gets even stranger ideas than usual and is ultimately fired by his old friend who happens to also be the owner of the park. He plans his gruesome revenge! His plan to replace the famous rock group with his own creatures and use...
If you liked Terrifier, you’re gonna like Terrifier 2 as well. Hands down, this is a brutal slasher. It has lots of gore and a whole lot of humor in it too. It’s kind of like Funny Games. Not that it comes up to those standards of social commentary. No, but the way the acting is carried out. Michael Haneke said about Funny Games that the perpetrators are playing in a comedy, whilst the victims...
. 15 Cameras seems to be a sequel of sorts to a couple of other movies that I was unaware of. But when reading up on the subject I discover that there are both 13 Cameras and 14 Cameras made before this. It makes kind of sense to add to the number of each movie. It’s like the Oceans 11, 12, and 13. Have not seen the predecessors as we speak though. When writing about...
I wanted to write about Godzilla, or Gojira for a long time. It may not be the mother of all monster movies but it’s not far from it. Few films have had such an impact on the monster movie industry. It would be interesting to research a bit but it is my firm belief that without this movie, there wouldn’t be many of the giant monster movies we see all over the place today. Of...
By now we all know the premise of the August Underground film series. There isn’t much plot, handheld camera work, and lots of death and torture, a faux snuff movie. August Underground’s Penance is the last(?) installment in the series. I would like to say August Underground’s Penance is by far the best of the three movies but it was too long ago that I saw the first film so I have a hard time...
c In Cut, There’s a low-budget horror movie being made. At least until the film’s director gets killed. She’s murdered on the set and the actor playing the killer also dies. After this the film seems to be cursed and every time someone tries to finish it someone dies. Now a group of students are about to give it another try. They convince the original film star to once again appear in the film and...
