If you’re reading this, then you already know why every teenage boy of the ’80s watched this movie, but it actually turned out to be quite funny. It’s the film equivalent of Hooters. Everyone knows why men go there, but they can use the delicious wings as a reason for going. It’s still hard to …
Classic Vincent Price tale of macabre. Obviously, it’s head and shoulders above the remake. I assume the premise would have to horrifying at the time. While the scares aren’t there, the charm is, as well as wonderfully poetic script. Price is impeccable. The only thing the remake holds over the original is that we get …
House Of Wax (1953) – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 12 / Film #1 Read More »
There’s no way this could ever top the original, but I’d have to problem stacking it up against any horror remake or most recent horror films. This movie is so gory and the practical effects are grotesque which to horror fans translates to awesome. This doesn’t have the fun camp like the original, but that …
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This centres around a married man who has stress induced gastrointestinal issues which end up manifesting into a little demon that can come and go out of the man’s arse whenever things intensify and kills the source of the stress. Key to a horror-comedy: come up with a ridiculous premise, cast comedic actors, have them play the …
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Incredibly fresh at the time when you consider that the writer came up with a lot of the werewolf folklore that we still follow today and the fact that a character actually has to ask, “What’s a werewolf?” Wonderfully complex and sympathetic performance by Lon Chaney. I liked that Randolph Duke was in the movie. …
Wolf Man, The (1941) – Quickie Review: 31 Nights Of Horror – Day 8 / Film #1 Read More »
A comatose patient falls for his new nurse and when he’s overcome with jealously about her personal life, his psychokinetic powers take over. A part of the Ozploitation movement of the 1970s, this low-key psychological horror really packs a punch. A nice little gem if you can find it.
This movie is crazy and it’s so over the top with its insanity that it goes way beyond camp. Russian soldiers are sent on a fake rescue mission which turns out to be a mission to capture Dr. Frankenstein who is creating a hybrid Nazi army. The creatures are half human, half BattleBot. Each one …
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I went in thinking this was going to be your typical teen slasher film, but I was pleasantly surprised that turned out to be something even better. It’s advertised as a horror-comedy, but I don’t remember laughing at all. It matters not. Where it lacks in funny, it makes up for with pure fun. And …
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A down on his luck guy gets wrangled into participating in an underground competition where he must complete tasks of increasing difficulty as well moral and legal consequences. A real surprise. High violent content and the movie just moves along briskly. Just when you think it gets itself stuck in a corner, a new twist …
I was really looking forward to seeing this one, and it was good but not as good as I would have liked it to be. To no fault of its own, it didn’t live up to the hype or to my heightened expectations. It was definitely spooky and a very well developed script. The top-notch …
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