Reviews
Girls... Don't Come Alone
Posted on 10/24/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
A Few Screws Loose is independent horror director / producer / screenwriter Craig McIntyre's first full length feature. The movie promised to deliver an experience that was "not for the faint hearted" and it definitely delivers. It is obvious that the movie was made on a shoestring budget but the in...
Read More "A Few Screws Loose"Every family has its dark secrets.
Posted on 12/10/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
A Tale of Two Sisters (or Janghwa, Hongryeon which translates as Rose Flower, Red Lotus) is a South Korean chiller which, although typical of a lot of supernatural Korean horror, is a superbly crafted story with an almost fairytale-like undertone and a disturbing and unexpected twist . Directed by J...
Read More "A Tale Of Two Sisters"Drop Dead Beautiful
Posted on 04/25/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
The more prolific half of the Pang Brothers released Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun) in 2004. Oxide Pang Chun seems to be unsure whether he wants to make a morbid documentation of an obsessive photographer’s fascination with death or a slasheresque snuff movie... so he does both. Rather than clum...
Read More "Ab-Normal Beauty (Sei Mong Se Jun)"Dark and Disturbing Korean Horror
Posted on 04/29/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
From South Korea comes the dark and disturbing Acacia, described as a "twisted take on infertility" the movie revolves around a happily married couple who cannot conceive. They decide to adopt a young boy named Jin-sung from the local orphanage. Jin-sung is a quiet and withdrawn child who is quite c...
Read More "Acacia"The legend is real...
Posted on 04/11/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
A mixture of dwarves, hot chicks, deformed rednecks, Jesus freaks and Bianca Barnett's boobs is a recipe that belongs in God's DVD cookbook, but the combination of the ingredients only is not enough as time and care need to go into the preparation of said ingredients for an outstanding straight-to-D...
Read More "Albino Farm"If You Survive This Night... Nothing Will Scare You Again.
Posted on 01/25/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Alice, Sweet Alice is a nice little chunk of psychological grey-matter shafting slasherism from 1976 America, although it was originally released as Communion it was re-released as Alice, Sweet Alice in 1978 and then again as Holy Terror in 1981. One of the main reasons that this movie has the abili...
Read More "Alice, Sweet Alice AKA Communion"They gave their souls to Hell... but the Devil wanted MORE!
Posted on 10/23/2011 by Hellbound Heart
Convents: they're all well and good, but a functional convent rarely makes for an entertaining movie. Luckily for us, we have an entire genre based on what happens when good nuns – or their young charges – go bad, and demented Mexican movie Alucarda (Sisters of Satan) must rank amongst the most gris...
Read More "Alucarda"Some rentals are too good to be true
Posted on 07/11/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
When the made-up term "hair horror" is thrown at movie fanatics, brain scientists maybe estimate that 85% will immediately visualise the stereotypical Asian ghost, the wicked 10% visualise the ungroomed bush popular in 70s exploitation while 5% insist that horror is all around us and we should comba...
Read More "Apartment 1303 (1303 Goshitsu)"Thai Occult Horror from Tanit Jitnukul
Posted on 02/15/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Art of the Devil (Khon len khong) is a 2004 supernatural horror movie from Thailand and is Tanit Jitnukul's first attempt at directing a horror movie. The horror in this movie comes from the black arts and the storyline is based around the occult and witchcraft.The story begins (in black and white f...
Read More "Art Of The Devil"Nikkatsu Violent Pink
Posted on 01/12/2011 by Hellbound Heart
Time for some hyper-real 70s Nikkatsu "roman porno" in Assault! Jack the Ripper (Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku) - here is a world of jaded sexual appetites, bad hair and gratuitous patisserie, brought to you by the inimitable worldwide-weird specialists Mondo Macabro.We start by meeting a disgruntled, rather ...
Read More "Assault! Jack The Ripper"She always gets her part
Posted on 05/25/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Takashi Miike's Audition has to be one of my all time favorite Asian horror movies, there are probably a number of reasons for this. On my first viewing I was shocked more than I had ever been before by a movie, Audition gave me my first taste of the extremities to which a Japanese horror movie coul...
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