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Country: France
Genre: Horror
Director: Alexandre Aja
Year: 2005
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The story of a serial killer who targets a family living in a secluded homestead in the country, High Tension was a huge success in France, and led writer/director Alexandre Aja to a flourishing career in the United States.
For most of the running time, the picture […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: John Carpenter
Year: 1978
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Where do I start? The low octane pacing? The bludgeoning obviousness of it all? The deadly dull score?
I have to admit, back in 1978, a madman systematically picking off teenagers had a certain amount of novelty appeal, but the old saw of dead bodies […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 1991
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The Silence of the Lambs won the Academy Award for Best Picture and has Anthony Hopkins’ most celebrated performance. What could I possibly have against it?
Well, the two central performances, to start with. Hopkins hams it up in the role of Hannibal Lecter, reducing what should be hypnotically […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Tobe Hooper
Year: 1974
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In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Sally, her wheelchair bound brother Franklin and some friends investigate the desecration of a graveyard, where Sally’s grandfather is buried. On a side trip to her grandfather’s old house, they encounter a chainsaw wielding maniac and his brood.
Unlike Friday the 13th, the makers […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Sean Cunningham
Year: 1980
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Friday the 13th is the mother of all reductive teenagers have sex and then get killed horribly movies.
The story? In 1957 at Camp Crystal Lake, a young boy drowns and two camp counselors are murdered, prompting the closing of the camp. When the camp […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Wes Craven
Year: 1972
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The Last House on the Left is Ingmar Bergman’s Virgin Spring as a grade Z horror movie.
Two teenage girls trying to score marijuana to smoke at a rock concert get kidnapped, raped and murdered for what seems like days. Through unlikely coincidence, the murderers end up at the parents’ […]