It is getting more and more difficult for filmmakers to breathe new life into the tired zombie genre as of late. The most successful zombie movies in recent memory are infused with humor (Zombieland) or introduce a new spin on the classic tale (Pontypool.) The Crazies is a little horror film that works because...
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Martin Scorsese’s latest potboiler bears the unmistakable markings of a classic film noir. Cigarette smoke hangs heavy in the air and tendrils about the characters, almost taking on a life of its own. Dream sequences become engulfed in flames and smoke. The camera lingers on one character taking a drag off of a cigarette...
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Keeping America convinced that orphans bring nothing but trouble…… *Warning, this story contains spoilers* Oh the things that people choose to get up on their high horses over, and by things I mean films. When I first saw the trailer for Jaume Collet-Serra’s new horror flick, Orphan, my first response was “that’ll teach people...
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Shuttle is a satisfying ride Color me naive, but I found this movie entirely enjoyable. It is extremely rare that I stumble upon a film that I don’t know anything about. I was trolling some horror web sites, when I saw an ad for this movie. Intrigued, I scribbled the name of the movie...
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Martyrs and Pontypool By Shannon Over the weekend I watched Martyrs, a French extreme horror film. Many extreme horror films like Hostel (which incidentally looks like Peewee’s Playhouse compared to Martyrs) feature hardcore violence just for the sake of it. There is no purpose, no moral lesson, just gratuitous violence to shock you for the...
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It will also scare your pants off By Shannon Holy crap. That’s my condensed review of this movie. A hearty welcome back to director Sam Raimi, who has been missing from the horror ranks for far too long. He makes up for his foray away from the fearful stuff with a scare-your-pants-off, laugh-out-loud, comedy/horror...
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By Shannon If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that several of the contributors have a proclivity for the horror genre. Therefore, every once in a while I am going to have the Horror Whore feature to talk about some horror movies I’ve recently seen. If you don’t like horror...
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