by: Kevin Kreepshow
Posted on 08.01.10 in All Horror Films > Torture

Every once in a long while a very special movie comes along to form icicles on your spine and turn your stomach in that particular way that you love so much. “Meadowoods” is not that movie. This C movie, that’s right C movie, stinker takes a stale style, a bad premise, and trite characters then combines them into a trifecta of rancid crap. This terrible little tale follows three college students who, …

by: Letitia
Posted on 04.04.10 in All Horror Films > Cult/Erotic > Thriller/Suspense > Torture

Lars Von Trier really wants you to know that Anti-Christ is his film–even before we get the title of the movie, von Trier’s name is written across the screen in a hasty, messy scrawl. Von Trier is known for his punishing, gritty independent films, films in which women are usually subjected to all kinds of horrors: in Breaking the Waves, a spunky Emily Watson had to have sex with random men to …

by: Shaun Anderson
Posted on 03.25.10 in All Horror Films > Psychological Thriller > Supernatural > Thriller/Suspense > Torture

Clive Barker’s Books of Blood were originally released in six volumes during 1984 and 1985. Published by Sphere they were an impressive calling card and showed that Barker had an appreciation for the traditional aspects of horror fiction as well as an impulse to create something slightly different. The emphasis on perverse sexuality, sado-masochism (explored in more detail in Barker’s debut horror film Hellraiser (1987)) and graphic bodily violence showed him to …

by: Letitia
Posted on 03.21.10 in All Horror Films > Torture

The Girl Next Door, based on a novel by Jack Ketchum, seems like a great set-up for a psychological horror movie. The film is about a single, older woman in the 1950’s who gets custody of her two nieces after the death of their parents. One neice is a pre-teen with polio, and the other is the “girl next door” of the title, Meg, a thirteen-year-old who Ruth immediately takes a dislike …

by: AthenaY
Posted on 03.09.10 in All Horror Films > Comedy > Slasher > Torture

When I plucked a random movie out from my brother’s gargantuan horror film collection, I thought I knew what I’d be in for.  A Dario Argento giallo, maybe, or a psychedelic 70s sexploitation flick, or possibly a delightful Troma horror.  Something with Clint Howard in it, if I was lucky.  Alas, no.  My random pick wound up being the 1985 cult torture film about psychotic gardeners run amok: They Don’t Cut the …

by: AthenaY
Posted on 03.09.10 in All Horror Films > Comedy > Slasher > Torture

When I plucked a random movie out from my brother’s gargantuan horror film collection, I thought I knew what I’d be in for.  A Dario Argento giallo, maybe, or a psychedelic 70s sexploitation flick, or possibly a delightful Troma horror.  Something with Clint Howard in it, if I was lucky.  Alas, no.  My random pick wound up being the 1985 cult torture film about psychotic gardeners run amok: They Don’t Cut the …

by: KFear
Posted on 02.08.10 in All Horror Films > Thriller/Suspense > Torture

I can’t say that it’s a “nice” change of pace to see the Japanese actually remake an AMERICAN horror classic, but it did catch me off guard, and I guess the idea intrigued me enough to give Living Hell a watch.
Japanese horror has always been the front and center of my DVD collection. There are a number of ghostly and eerie images that have stuck in my mind from many of …

by: JohnSoister
Posted on 02.01.10 in All Horror Films > Torture

“This time you really, really, really won’t believe how it ends…until next time.”
If only I had had been twisted enough to think of locking someone in a room with a bear-trap rigged to their head, I could be a part of the most lucrative horror franchise in history and be well on my way to penning the much anticipated “Jig Saw’s Uncle Ginsu’s Killer Cutlery, part 7 of 9, volume 4, episode …

by: Letitia
Posted on 01.22.10 in All Horror Films > Exploitation > Torture

It takes a lot for a horror movie to disgust me. I like gore. I like blood. I like violence. I think that gore and blood and violence satisfy a human need to see what’s really happening inside our bodies, to see what’s taboo.  But to this day, Deadgirl is one of the few horror movies that has truly disgusted me. Maybe this disgust could have worked for the film, could have …

by: Shaun Anderson
Posted on 12.14.09 in All Horror Films > Mystery > Psychological Thriller > Torture

Quirky Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike positively exploded onto the international scene in 1999 with this unforgettable and challenging exercise in genre bending audience endurance. The film wowed and horrified in equal measure patrons of the art cinema circuit in a number of European countries, before being embraced by horror fans eager for Miike’s sadistic manipulations. Miike self-consciously employs a storytelling style that downplays events and keeps knowledge too a minimum. The pace …