Author: splatterpictures
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Splatterpictures VS Remakes! (horror rant)
“No movie executive has ever been fired for greenlighting a sequel”. – Roger Ebert I get asked a lot about my opinions on remakes and or sequels. I am usually hesitant to even comment because I have always believed that there is room enough in the world for everyone’s favourite movie. (be it original …
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Top Ten Weirdest Moments in J-Grindhouse
One of the biggest guilty pleasures for me is Japanese Grindhouse. In the last decade or so, there has been something of a cottage industry surrounding a few special effects artists/ directors coming out of Japan in what is now known as Sushi Typhoon. Anyone who’s seen these splatterfests, know that if you want screwball…
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Black Sabbath (Three faces of Fear!)
Well, one good Mario Bava film deserves another seeing as I have a habit of getting into modes where one thing makes me think of another. In our last discussion I chatted about one of Mario Bava’s most famous horrors, Black Sunday. After the huge success of the film, American International Pictures asked Bava for…
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Vampyr 1932 (re-visited)
One of the first posts I ever did was actually much older pieces I did just for facebook. I discussed vampire movies before 1935. I touched on the films Vampyr, which to this day is one of my favourites. I didn’t really give it the credit it deserved because I was still new at this.…
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