Candyman, Candyman, Candy...aw Forget It

By roskopp on 10/15/09 4:56am
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CandymanCandymanFlicking through random TV last night I had the total misfortune to stumble upon Candyman 3: Day of the Dead. Sweet Jesus! What a terrible film. I know she is only cast thanks to her chest but Donna D’Errico is beyond bad as an actress. Her facial expressions resemble someone being gently electrocuted as though she is struggling to squeeze out an expression through the botox. They also decided to just ignore the previous films and create a super weak, cringingly bad back story. It was painful viewing.


The original Candyman was always overrated in my opinion. It was a passable slasher roughly adapted from a Clive Barker short story. There were some nice creepy elements to it and a Wicker Man inspired ending but if it wasn’t for the standout creepy performance from Tony Todd it would not have been memorable.

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Cheesy Hindi Horror from the 80s

By akgoemans on 10/14/09 9:27am
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Take that, Skeletor!Take that, Skeletor!

I recently came across a trailer for an old Hindi movie on Youtube. Admittedly it was not as bad as the Nigerian 666; on the other hand, it was a gruelling 2 and half minutes as I tried to decipher the selling point of the movie. This brief clip revived my interest in cheesy foreign horror and thus, I embarked on a mission to find other unintentionally entertaining hindi horror flicks. And my word, there were many!



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The Gore Gore Girls (1972)

By cobwebsandstrange on 10/9/09 9:55am
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Any movie that’s completely denied entrance into a country (Australia), disallowed from being distributed or displayed did something right. And Herschell Gordon Lewis’ 1972 film, The Gore Gore Girls is it. The film can’t be said to be a thing of cinematic beauty, but in its abhorrent distillation of all things gross, the film maker and his product have succeeded in something much more entertaining: trash.

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Review of Undead

By akgoemans on 10/9/09 4:09am
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I came across this Australian horror flick the other night. It's a zombie flick called Undead that has generous doses of comedy sprinkled throughout the movie. The movie was cheesy -albeit, not Bloody Pit of Horror-style cheesy, but that in itself is a good thing- and it proved to be a fresh take on the unusual zombie plague scenario. This movie is written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, the two guys behind the upcoming hyped-up vampire movie called Daybreakers. See, I knew that would grab your attention!



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Let The Right One In: Swedish Vampires

By msarko on 10/6/09 6:42pm
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As long as there have been movies, there have been vampire movies, and as long as there have been vampire movies, there have been bad vampire movies. Finding a decent blood-sucking flick usually requires a dedicated slog through the dozens of cheap, poorly-written, badly-acted and negligently-directed movies in the subgenre produced every year. We in the United States have a nice shortcut to good movies, though. Generally, if a foreign language film gets wide distribution in America, it's probably good enough to stand on its own merits. This is definitely the case with Tomas Alfredson's 2008 romantic thriller Let The Right One In.



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Bloody Pit of Horror

By akgoemans on 10/2/09 8:55am
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Think of it as a mud bathThink of it as a mud bath

After the raven-filled horror from last week, it's back to old school horror. However, this movie is not in the league as the somewhat charming old horrors; oh no, this one's in a league of its own. Dating back to 1960s, this dubbed-from-Italian flick goes by many names – Orgy of Sadism, Crimson Executioner and Virgins for the Hangman. For the purposes of this review, let's go by one of the milder names i.e. The Bloody Pit of Horror. You have some idea what to expect now; blood, gore, torture, women in skimpy outfits prancing around in a dungeon squealing. Take my warning to heart, don't eat any snacks while watching this movie. Yea, you might laugh so hard that you choke on your popcorn.



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Drag Me To Hell Review

By roskopp on 9/30/09 2:44am
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Drag Me To HellDrag Me To HellWe’ve been waiting a long time for Sam Raimi to return to the horror genre. There was The Gift back in 2000 but we’ll turn a blind eye to that and say he hasn’t done a real horror film since the anarchic horror comedy Army of Darkness, the third part of the Evil Dead series. It was 1981 when The Evil Dead first catapulted Raimi to success and his direction was unique, innovative and memorable. There are echoes of the Evil Dead in Drag Me To Hell and it is easily the best horror film I’ve seen in recent years.


The action kicks off with a young boy being dragged to hell in front of his sister after stealing a necklace from a gypsy. A shadowy demon tears through their house and attacks the family before knocking the boy over a balcony and dragging him down into a fiery pit which tears open in the floor.

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"You Don't Know Me" Finalist in 7th Annual [iP] Short Film Contest

By loreelouis on 9/28/09 8:43am
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"YOU DON'T KNOW ME" FINALIST IN 7TH ANNUAL

INDIEPRODUCER.NET SHORT FILM COMPETION New York, September 28, 2009 – Emerging writer/director Sean Melia's first short film "You Don't Know Me" is one of six finalists in the horror category of the 7th Annual [iP] Short Film Contest.   The winner will meet with Vertigo Entertainment's Sonny Mallhi (producer of The Strangers, The Lake House, The Roommate). 

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Kaw

By akgoemans on 9/25/09 6:27am
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I'll pause for a moment as you think about the title. That's right, that is the name of the movie. Yes, Kaw is a horror movie. And no, it's not one of those old school 'it's so bad, it's cool to watch them now' sort of bonanza either. Oh no, this horribly bland movie was cooked up in 2007. And not only was it bland, it was incredibly sad; it was the pathetic sort of sad where you would laugh if not for the fact that everyone in the movie was trying really hard.



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Can You Find a Good Horror Film for a Pound?

By roskopp on 9/24/09 9:07am
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BerrymanBerrymanIn the run up to Halloween many stores run some kind of horror related special offer. The witches hats, rubber spiders and candy fill the shelves and people stock up on horror movies. On a recent visit to Poundland I was delighted to find a DVD display packed with horror films. Each one was, as the name would suggest, only £1 (which is about $1.60 right now). So is it possible to buy a decent horror film for a pound?

I went for six movies in the end and to be brutally honest all of them were pretty terrible save one. Here’s what my £6 got me.

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