Tag: movie review

• Christmas Evil (You’d Better Watch out!)

  Time to jump into the Holiday season with a properly themed horror review. Christmas has always been a fun time of year, for horror. Everyone sort of gets off on the Macabre concept of this special time of year being ruined by killer Santas or evil snowmen. A lot of the time it’s just utterly…

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  December 12, 2011

• Black Sunday (1960)

  It’s funny that when you think about the major studio horror productions of the 1930’s and 40’s where even the slightest thing that could be considered blasphemous would be edited or cut altogether. A great example of this would be Universal’s Frankenstein. As the decades moved forward and we hit the 60’s censorship laws had…

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  November 11, 2011

• Ode to the Unsung Slasher (Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2)

  The slasher genre is what attracted me to horror in the first place. These days, that particular sub-genre of horror has gotten some nice boosts in my mind with films Like Hatchet and the Hills Run Red, but one I especially enjoyed was Laid to Rest.   Today I’m going to tackle Chromeskull: Laid to…

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  October 1, 2011

• Ode to the unsung Slashers (The Hills Run Red)

  Over the last decade or so, the concept of a slasher movie has become pretty broken. I’ve discussed in earlier posts before that when it comes to the slasher-genre people are quick to point out its flaws. In the 80’s there was a huge slasher boom with studios trying to cash in on the popularity…

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  September 22, 2011