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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Alex Turner
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
You can’t accuse Dead Birds of being unoriginal.
How many horror movies about Confederate bank robbers holed up in a haunted antebellum mansion can you recall?
It’s a good premise. There’s the potential for action (pursuing lawmen, internecine squabbles over the gold) and the […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense/ Horror/ Satire
Director: Various
Year: 2007
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Here we have the first season of Dexter I can’t fully recommend. Huge fans of the series will probably still want to check it out, but it’s just not very good.
The fault isn’t the actors. Michael C. Hall negotiates the contours of the […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Most remakes are an exercise in futility. Usually, the originals were just fine to begin with. Most of the time, the filmmakers have no real reason to make the film. Nine times out of ten, it’s a matter of simple economics. There’s an […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Horror/ Action/ Comedy
Director: David R. Ellis
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I suppose I should say a few words about the plot of The Final Destination, although it’s the same as every other Final Destination flick. Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition about a large scale disaster, freaks out and pulls away […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Satire/ Exploitation
Director: Alexandre Aja
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Director Alexandre Aja lets you know what kind of movie Pirahna is going to be within 30 seconds. He gives us a broad and knowing wink at Jaws, the mother of all big bad fish stories, going so far as to include a […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Satire/ Science Fiction
Director: Stuart Gordon
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The key to enjoying From Beyond is to keep in mind that the film is intended as the film analog to the old EC Horror Comics, seasoned with some nudity and mild S&M.
The source material is a H. P. Lovecraft story, but […]
≡ Category: Horror, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Eric Red
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
For a while there, writer/director Eric Red had me fooled. Red is known for genre movies, especially horror, but the first 15 minutes of 100 Feet play like a psychological drama.
Marnie Watson (Famke Janssen) is placed under house arrest for the last year of a three […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Satire/ Horror/ Suspense
Director: Richard Franklin
Year: 1983
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I remember being impressed with Psycho II when it came out back in 1983, but it’s taken me the intervening 27 or so years for me to fully appreciate how brilliant it is. It also underscores for me how critics, like most people, […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Horror, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Comedy
Director: Bob Clark
Year: 1973
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The first time I saw Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things, back in my misspent youth, it was under perfect circumstances: I was with friends, it was pouring outside, I was stoned out of my mind on hashish, and we started watching the movie about […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Satire/ Horror
Director: Robert Rodriguez/ Quentin Tarantino/ Rob Zombie/ Eli Roth/ Edgar Wright
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Normally, when I review a movie, I’m focused on stuff like cinematography, plotting, characterization, acting, martial arts choreography and so on, and to a certain extent, that’s true of Grindhouse, too. But all of […]
