by: ahf
Posted on 11.18.09 in Horror Film Hotties

Today’s Horror Film Hottie in none other than Carrie Anne Moss, famous for her rolls in, Disturbia, Suspect Zero, Fido, Forever Knight, Nightmare Care, and The Hitchhiker. [more]

by: ahf
Posted on 11.17.09 in News

Zombies! We have an exclusive first take at the trailer for Dead Season, shot entirely with the new Canon 7D high-resolution camera. The filmmakers are touting the film as the first self-proclaimed film shot with the new equipment. Looks like everyone is catching a bit of the Zombie fever in this upcoming Indie flick.

by: damon heath sager
Posted on 11.11.09 in All Horror Films > Screenshots > Thriller/Suspense > Torture

So, this movie had me at hello. I don’t know if it was a mood I was in, but right from the weird mummified tube tortured dude before the credits, I was ready for more. It seemed Captivity was gonna freak me out just a little. And it did. A little.

Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) is everywhere. Billboards, television, magazines…she IS America’s next top model. But here, the famous blond is unhappy. She hardly gets anytime to herself. While Jennifer’s depression sinks in it lowers her guard and leaves it just a little easier for her to be stalked. After a long day of photo shoots Jennifer goes to a very uppity club with her dog, (Yes people with her dog. I don’t get it either.) where she is drugged with an Appletini and subsequently kidnapped by our unseen villain… [more]

by: damon heath sager
Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Mystery > Thriller/Suspense

I really do try to keep an open mind with these fast food murder mysteries. Sometimes a good one will pop up purely because of it’s style or camp…maybe even some kind of edge. If you don’t know what I mean by fast food murder mystery, well…

1. Does it star Ashley Judd as the films heroine.

2. Is her mentor played by Denzel, Morgan, or Samuel L.?

3. Do you feel like you’ve seen this film before?

*SPOILER*

Most likely you have, just with a different title. This one is called “Twisted”, which I felt was misleading…the film is soooooooo predictable it should have been called “Samuel L Jackson Did It”…yeah, sorry to ruin the ending, but if you have half a brain you know he did it after the first 30mins of the movie.   *END* [more]

by: KFear
Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Cult/Erotic

There are films that try to be goriest, the most sadistic, and there are films that try to be the scariest. Now, what about films that try to be the filthiest? What happens when a director comes along who decides that they’re going to cross every single line that a filmmaker, outside of snuff and pornography, has ever crossed? Well, when the budget is next to nothing, a director like John Waters emerges to give us a film that is absolutely the vilest, most hilarious, and hilariously vile piece of cinematic trash to ever be captured on camera! Prior to throwing Pink Flamingos into my DVD player, I thought that I had fully prepared myself for this notoriously filthy piece of cult history, but I soon lost all my initial ethical reasoning only a half hour after the opening credits. As a result, this classic John Waters film is filth at its finest. [more]

by: NYCalling
Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Cult/Erotic > Torture

Horror films, and especially exploitation pictures, have always been about selling the sizzle as opposed to the Steak.

David Friedman, one of the high kings of exploitation films, noted that exploitation films by nature were always better in the trailer then in the actual film. The taglines and trailers are used to entice you into see these films. And most times, a film won’t live up to all the hype. Believe me, there are some films where I don’t need to remind myself that “it’s only a movie.” It’s pretty obvious it’s a movie and one so bad that I wonder if they even had a script before they started the cameras. So any film whose tagline is “The lucky ones simply got their brains blown out” would seem to have a lot to live up to. Fortunately, Greek director Nico Masterakis did his best to live up to the film’s trailer and tagline. As a matter of fact, he probably exceeds it. I’ve seen the trailer for the film, and it hardly equals the sheer nastiness in the movie itself. [more]

by: sprouticus
Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Monster > Supernatural > Zombie

Lamberto Bava, Dario Argento, and the demons may be back, but it’s just not quite the same this go around. For lack of a better term, I have sort of a love-hate relationship with Demons 2. On the one hand it successfully taps into the style, make-up, and mayhem of the original; but on the other hand it has almost none of the gore or bite that made that film so much fun. What should have been a crazy sequel set in the apocalyptic world we were left with at the end of Demons, ends up being a fairly tame rehash of virtually the same story with even less of a plot (if you can believe that). There are still some things to like here, but it definitely feels as if the filmmakers just wanted to quickly churn out whatever they could to ride the success of the first film. [more]

by: NYCalling
Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Monster

Ah, horror sequels. And even more importantly, sequels by Albert Band and his band of renown. What made me watch this film was that it was actually directed by Albert Band, the patriarch of the Band family, who of course are the architects of the “Full Moon” empire, which has put out more films then Takashi Miike. While he produced a John Carradine like amount of films, his director resume is a little thin. He seemed to be more of a Roger Corman sort, a guy who bankrolled and produced films but rarely got involved in the dirty work of directing. [more]

by: NYCalling
Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Monster

There are a lot of low, low budget horror movies. Most times they are badly filmed, with terrible dialog, lousy effects and the worse acting you’ve ever seen. So why do we keep going back to the well, and watching these terrible films? Because for every 100 films of crap like Zombie Nightmare, or Shock Treatment (the awful sequel to Rocky Horror Picture Show), you get a gem like Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case.

The plot is very simple: A young man who goes to New York City carries a wicker basket with him everywhere. This basket contains his deformed Siamese twin brother, who wants vengeance on the Doctors who separated them. When the ‘normal’ young man meets a girl who he falls for, and she begins to intrude on his relationship with her brother, tragedy ensues. [more]

by: NYCalling
Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Cult/Erotic > Supernatural

Let’s go back, fans of obscure and bad films, to the late eighties. Oh, this film says it was released in 1991, but there’s no doubt, Shock ‘Em Dead is a film from the late eighties. Every bad memory of the clothing and music is in this film, to say nothing of the hair styles. Even the guitars scream late eighties production. I’ve played guitar for years, and watching this film reminded me that for quite a few years music, in general, was just kind of silly. Even the instruments were kind of stupid looking. [more]