‘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 [...]
Throwback Thursday: ‘Night of the Creeps’ (1986) Retro Movie Review
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw [...]
‘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, [...]
Lucio Fulci’s ‘Zombie’ Movie Review
Directed by Lucio Fulci Written by Elisa Briganti Starring: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, and Richard Johnson Strangers looking for a woman’s father arrive at a tropical [...]
‘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 [...]
‘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 [...]
