by: sprouticus
Posted on 02.08.10 in All Horror Films > Comedy

Little *ucker isn’t necessarily a film you should have high expectations for, but on the other hand, if you have high expectations (wink wink cough cough) you just might find yourself enjoying this silly little film. Directed by Michael Muscal, Little *ucker hearkens back to the B-Horror films of the ’80s giving it a distinct, almost Troma-like feeling. Since the film aspires to be nothing more than a B-film, this means that …

by: sprouticus
Posted on 01.19.10 in All Horror Films > Thriller/Suspense

David Ondaatje’s first feature, The Lodger, is somewhat of an unfortunate undertaking. Even though it claims to be a modern adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel rather than a remake of the 1927 Hitchcock film, it is still treading on the same ground as the Master of Suspense and because of that there are certain expectations. Expectations that are sadly never met as a suspense film or even a film in general. …

by: sprouticus
Posted on 01.08.10 in All Horror Films > Comedy > Cult/Erotic > Sci-Fi

Ah, Critters. One of those flicks I grew up with that has not only held up over the years, but I actually enjoy it more now than I did as a kid. It was unfairly declared a Gremlins clone despite director Stephen Herek’s rebuttal of such claims, chalk it up to bad timing I suppose. SadlyGremlins has become the much more popular of the two over the years and while I do think it’s …

by: sprouticus
Posted on 01.01.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Sci-Fi

If you ever want to see what sheer stupidity looks like on celluloid, look no further than Neil Marshall’s latest outing Doomsday. After a promising start with his impressive debut Dog Soldiers and the claustrophobic spelunking nightmare The Descent, I had high hopes for his venture into apocalyptic action territory. Unfortunately, Doomsday is an jumbled mess of a film that is as schizophrenic as they come. It has no clue what it wants to be and …

by: sprouticus
Posted on 12.31.09 in All Horror Films > Vampire

What do you get when you cross Rear Window, vampires, and the ’80s? Only one of the most fun horror films of the decade! Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is your average teenager whose biggest problems are  pop quizzes and getting to 2nd base; but when a mysterious man with strange habits moves in next door, his world becomes slightly more complicated. Mr. Dandrige (Chris Sarandon) is charming, seductive, and he has a thing …

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Posted on 12.14.09 in All Horror Films > Supernatural > Zombie

I consider both Argento and Fulci to be true maestros of their craft. It’s hard to even really compare the two because they are so completely different in their approach, technique, and style. Where Argento paints a grandiose, beautiful picture; Fulci likes to dig in and get dirty. Argento uses lavish atmosphere and suspense to make your heart pound, while Fulci uses disgusting and gritty imagery to make your skin crawl and …

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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 …

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

“They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.”
We all have those moods where we want to sit down and watch a film that offers little more than some cool visuals and a lot of gore. Well, straight from the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava (yep, that’s Mario’s son) we are presented with a film that does just that. Demons is simply an excuse to stylishly …

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Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Supernatural > Thriller/Suspense

Some things are just born evil, or in this case made evil. Christine is the seventh feature film from the great John Carpenter, who was coming off of two big horror successes with Halloween and The Fog and the undeserved commercial failure of The Thing. Carpenter has said that he took the job only because it was all that was offered him at the time, but don’t let that seeming lack of …

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Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Monster

Released in 1984, C.H.U.D. is a B-Horror flick that uses the urban paranoia of the early 80’s to fuel its story of strange happenings beneath the streets of New York City. The title stands for “cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers” and the title really says it all. After years of rumors of things like alligators in the sewers, I suppose strange underground creatures that feed off of humans isn’t too much of a …