‘Hellbound: Hellraiser II’ (1988) Movie Review
Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again. Spoilers [...]
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‘Hellraiser’ (1987) Movie Review
An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover, who’s being chased by demons after he escaped from their sadomasochistic Hell. Not a spoiler-free review. [...]
‘Cannibal Holocaust’ (1980) Movie Review
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the [...]
‘The House of Seven Corpses’ (1974) Retro Movie Review
A director chooses a creepy old mansion to shoot his newest occult film. Despite his knowledge of the seven murders committed on the property, he pushes his crew to complete [...]
‘Dark Night of the Scarecrow’ (1981) Movie Review
This made for television movie freaked me out when I was 12 years old. Halloween brings a lot of seasonal specials to life, and us Generation X kids had it made. [...]
‘Halloween II’ (1981) Movie Review: Things That Totally Piss Me Off
It physically pains me that John Carpenter and Debra Hill are attached to this studio cash grab. Halloween, in all its cinematic horror glory was created for a mere $325,000. [...]
‘The Changeling’ (1980) Movie Review
The Changeling is a fantastic 1980’s haunted house film that holds up to today’s standards. George C. Scott plays John Russell, an aging composer dealing with [...]
‘Motel Hell’ Movie Review
Motel Hell is a terrifying flick despite it’s sometimes campy leanings. 1980 produced some true cinematic turds, so it’s okay if this one slipped past. I saw this [...]
‘Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile’ Movie Review
Obviously based on Wisconsin killer, Ed Gein, Ezra Cobb (Roberts Blossom), is a mama’s boy in all the wrong ways. After losing his Bible-beating mother, a woman quick [...]
‘Prom Night’ (1980) Does Death & Disco Hold Up 34 Years Later?
Here’s another classic, or perceived classic from the never-ending horror machine known as the early 80s. Jamie Lee Curtis, still riding the horror high from Halloween, [...]
‘The Baby’ Movie Review
I was grossly unfamiliar with Ted Post’s film, The Baby. I remember seeing a poster for it years ago and assuming it was about an actual infant on a killing spree. [...]
‘Nightbreed’ Movie Review
Nightbreed was a favorite “weird” horror movie of mine back in the early 90s. After watching it again after nearly 20 years, it was like watching a different film [...]
‘Phantasm’ Movie Review
Phantasm blew my 11 year old mind. The mysterious undertaker ran a creepy marble-walled funeral home by day, and robbed graves by night. Why does he rob graves? Obviously, [...]
‘Dust Devil’ Movie Review
I hate myself for not seeing this sooner. Not suicide mad, but embarrassed to be a cinephile mad. Dust Devil is part Stephen King’s The Gunslinger and part The Outlaw [...]
‘A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge’ Movie Review
Directed by Jack Sholder Written by David Chaskin & Wes Craven Stars: Robert Englund, Mark Patton, and Kim Myers A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger [...]
‘The Serpent & the Rainbow’ Movie Review
Hey, look, it’s the perfect horror formula to give me bad dreams: Americans stuck inside hostile foreign lands that practice Voodoo. I mention it every time I review [...]
“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2” Movie Review
Directed by Tobe Hooper Writers: L.M. Kit Carson, and Tobe Hooper Starring: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow, and Bill Moseley Released August 22, 1986 Young DJ [...]
‘Phantasm II’ Movie Review
Written & Directed by Don Coscarelli Starring: James Le Gros, Reggie Bannister, Paula Irvine, and Angus Scrimm Mike, now released from a psychiatric hospital, continues [...]
‘Horror of Dracula’ (1958) Movie Review
Directed by Terence Fisher Written by Jimmy Sangster (based on the Bram Stoker novel) Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, and Carol Marsh After Jonathan [...]
‘The Wicker Man’ (1973) Movie Review
Spoilers for this 41 year-old film The Wicker Man has to be the best British horror film of all time. Most readers are aware of Christopher Lee’s prolific relationship [...]
‘Flatliners’ (1990) Movie Review
Directed by Joel Schumacher Written by Peter Filardi Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, and Oliver Platt Daring to face the question of [...]
‘My Bloody Valentine’ (1981) Movie Review
Directed by George Mihalka Written by Stephen A. Miller Starring: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck A decades old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing [...]
‘Night of the Living Dead’ (1968) Movie Review
Directed by George A. Romero Written by John A. Russo Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman A group of strangers converge upon a lone farmhouse for [...]
‘Oldboy’ (2003) Movie Review: Required Viewing, No Exceptions
Directed by Chan-wook Park Written by Garon Tsuchiya Starring: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, and Hye-jeong Kang After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is [...]
“Poltergeist” (1982) Movie Review
Directed by Tobe Hooper Written by Steven Spielberg and Michael Grais Starring: JoBeth Williams, Heather O’Rourke, and Craig T. Nelson A family’s home is haunted [...]
‘ Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles’ (1994) Movie Review
Directed by Neil Jordan Written by Anne Rice Starring: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst, and Christian Slater A vampire tells his epic life story: love, [...]
‘White Zombie’ (1932) Movie Review
Directed by Victor Halperin Writtrn by Garnett Weston Starring: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, and Joseph Cawthorn A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves [...]
“The Devil’s Bride” (1968) Movie Review
Directed by Terence Fisher Written by Richard Matheson (screenplay), Dennis Wheatley (novel) Starring: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, and Nike Arrighi The powers of good are [...]
“The Dunwich Horror” (1970) Movie Review
Directed by Daniel Haller Written by Curtis Hanson and Henry Rosenbaum Starring: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, and Ed Begley Wilbur Whateley pops over to the Arkham Miskatonic [...]
‘Salem’s Lot’ (1979) Movie Review: Terror That Still Haunts Me 34 Years Later
Directed by Tobe Hooper Novel written by Stephen King – Screenplay by Paul Monash Starring: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Reggie Nalder, and Fred [...]
“Insane in the Samhain” 2013: 31 Days of Horror!
October 1st! I can hardly believe this is the last day of September, but time travels quickly at Fall’s first signs. October is my favorite month of the year. Being a [...]
“Friday the 13th Part 2” (1981) Movie Review
Directed by Steve Miner Written by Ron Kurz, Victor Miller Starring: Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey, and Warrington Gillette Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake [...]
“Friday the 13th Part III” (1982) Movie Review
Directed by Steve Miner Written by Martin Kitrosser and Carol Watson Starring: Dana Kimmell, Tracie Savage, and Richard Brooker Having escaped, Jason Voorhees is back, hockey [...]
‘They Live’ (1988) Movie Review
Written & Directed by John Carpenter Based on the short story “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” by Ray Nelson Starring: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg [...]
Sinister Sundays: ‘I Spit on Your Grave’ (1978) Movie Review
Written & Directed by Meir Zarchi Starring: Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four [...]
Fister Rolls Out the Red Carpet for September
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend [...]
Fister’s Sinister Sundays: ‘Nightmares Come at Night’ (1970) Movie Review
Directed by Jesús Franco Written by Jesús Franco & Josyane Gibert Starring: Diana Lorys, Paul Muller, Jack Taylor, and Soledad Miranda Two exotic dancers embark on a [...]
‘Westworld’ (1973) Movie Review
Written & Directed by Michael Crichton Starring: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, and James Brolin A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting [...]
‘The Entity’ (1982) Movie Review
Directed by Sidney J. Furie Written by Frank De Felitta Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented [...]
‘Suspiria’ Movie Review (1977)
Directed by Dario Argento Written by Dario Argento & Daria Nicolodi Starring: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, and Flavio Bucci A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy [...]
‘Virgin Witch’ Movie Review
Directed by Ray Austin Written by Hazel Adair Starring: Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Keith Buckley Two beautiful country sisters, Christine (Anne Michelle) and Betty (Vicki [...]
‘Barbarella’ Movie Review: An Introduction to Space P*ssy
Directed by Roger Vadim Written by Claude Brulé Starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and [...]
‘Satan’s School for Girls’ Television Movie Review
Directed by David Lowell Rich Written by Arthur A. Ross Starring: Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, and Lloyd Bochner A young woman investigating her sister’s suicide at a [...]
Late to the Party Movie Reviews: ‘Donnie Darko’
Written & Directed by Richard Kelly Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Mary McDonnell, Drew Barrymore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Jenna Malone A troubled teenager is [...]
‘Psycho’ Movie Review: Another Viewing After Watching ‘Bates Motel’
Screenplay by Joseph Stefano Based on the novel by Robert Bloch Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Janet Leigh A [...]
Cronos (1993) Movie Review
Written & Directed by Guillermo del Toro Starring: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, and Tamara Shanath A mysterious device designed to [...]
Die, Monster, Die! (1965) Movie Review
Directed by Daniel Haller Written by Jerry Sohl (Based looslely on H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”) Starring: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams and Freda [...]
Black Sunday (1960) Movie Review
Directed by Mario Bava Written by Ennio De Concini and Mario Serandrei Starring: Barbara Steele, John Richardson and Andrea Checchi A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant [...]
Halloween (1978) Movie Review – 2012 Theatrical Run
Article by FisterRoboto of lefthandhorror.com Written by John Carpenter & Debra Hill Directed by John Carpenter Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Tony [...]
Ginger Snaps (2000) Movie Review
Article by FisterRoboto of lefthandhorror.com Written by Karen Walton & John Fawcett Directed by John Fawcett Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Mimi Rogers, [...]
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