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Movie reviews for horror fans; from gruesome bone-chillers to dark horror thrillers, a showcase for frightful films that seek to entertain and to terrify.
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Awaken the Shadow Man (2018)'
It's official. Gravitas is my favorite shoe-string production studios since Full Moon. They just try so damn hard to make quality horror out of nothing. And they come so damn close too. They're always just on the edge of genius but can't quite deliver.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
A Serious Review on 'Halloween' (2018)
Halloween was seriously hyped-up, and also seriously trashed for me, before I even saw it. However, James Charles and Kenzie Ziegler both said it was good, so I decided to take their expert opinions into account and go see it. I’ve seen pretty much every previous Halloween adaptation, sequel, or alternate universe movie (even the questionable Rob Zombie version), so I had pretty high expectations for this.
By Raine Neal7 years ago in Horror
Hereditary: A Must See Horror Film
I have always been one who gets pulled into the horror genre, either by choice or by force. Growing up with two older brothers I was always watching movies in this genre. I was started on movies like the original Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and other classics. While those movies were amazing, they basically had the same template, IE: The beginning is normal, happy and cheerful. The characters have little or no issues and obstacles. In the middle something changes that throws a wrench into everything. The rest of the movie usually consists of many jump scares, gore, or a bunch of teens running around trying not to get murdered. Sound familiar? Well, Hereditary is nothing like that…
By Alexis Thomasi7 years ago in Horror
Child's Play: Chucky at 30
How did our culture come to allow Chucky from Child’s Play become a thing? Thirty years after the film debuted Chucky remains in the darkest corners of our popular culture appealing to those with a bizarre, macabre sense of humor and a deep tolerance for stupid. Personally, I’ve never had any interest in this silly horror doll nonsense. I’ve never understood the appeal.
By Sean Patrick7 years ago in Horror
Review: 'Slaughterhouse Rulez'
It's a strange one, this. The first film to come from Stolen Picture, the new production company created by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Slaughterhouse Rulez is very much channelling the spirit of the Cornetto Trilogy. Shaun of the Dead came out a whole fourteen years ago and the belated third movie The World's End was back in 2013, and so a relaunch of the skewed universe of Pegg and Frost is perhaps overdue.
By Daniel Tessier7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'From the Dark' (2014)
SPOILERS!!! So they try to play coy with the movie description in Netflix but you'd be daft if you don't figure it out pretty much immediately. Some farmer guy is digging about in the peat and finds some random wooden stake buried deep in the ground, then discovers it was embedded inside a wooden box. That's right... MOTHER FUCKING VAMPIRES! And not the pussy sparkling vampires or those sexy alluring vampires. These are some nasty classic vampires THAT WILL EAT YOUR MOTHER FUCKING FACE!!! Well, bite your neck, but you get my meaning.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'House on Willow Street' (2016)
I wanted to like this movie. It had everything needed for decent horror. The acting was pretty solid for horror. I know that bar is low but these guys did a good job. The atmosphere was dark and gritty, even grimy. It only takes place in two settings, an abandoned warehouse and a small mansion. But both settings feel alive. They're not quite as impressive as Crimson Peak, but then, those are big shoes to fill. That set had a pulse. This one had lots of rust and black mold.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
'Overlord' Not Your Average Zombie Film
Overlord, directed by Julius Avery, delivers not just a good gory horror film but a good drama about WW2 as well. With sub-plots about how far a sister will go in order to protect her little brother, to how far a solider goes to not just complete his, mission but to save humanity from the horrors of genetically modified Nazi zombies, and the bonds that form during wartime. And with great performances by Jovan Adepo, Mathilde Ollivie, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbæk, and the rest of the cast, Overlord gives you everything you want. From the moment the opening sequence begins and you are thrown into a plane with a group of American paratroopers preparing to invade France on D-Day, amid explosions and gunfire, to the heart wrenching and engaging story, and then to the big plot twist that these American soldiers aren't just fighting Nazi's they're fighting genetically modified Nazi zombies.
By Whitney Kristina7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Residue' (2017)
You know what? This actually wasn't half bad. Seriously, I was impressed. We're not exactly talking Oscars material here, but it was good. It entertained and was compelling enough to really grab you and keep you.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
Reed Alexander's Horror Review of 'Hungerford' (2014)
My fucking GOD this movie was actively painful to watch. And as "Shaky Camera" goes, the acting actually wasn't shit, so it doesn't fall into the same category of failure as The Bay for instance. This movie didn't even fail because it was a good movie ruined by Shaky Camera like The Taking of Deborah Logan. Though, it had some of those failed elements. This movie failed because it was a shit premise, with a shit execution, using shit trope, and shit effects. The fact that it's Shaky Camera is just pissing into a river of shit.
By Reed Alexander7 years ago in Horror
