Horror Extreme Reviews
Drenched in Creepiness
Posted on 04/21/2009 by Horror Extreme
Even with its PG-13 rating, Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara) still manages to be a very unsettling movie and is one of the original influences (along with Ring) on what has become the current commercially accessible J-Horror formula. Dark Water was one of the first mainstream Japanese horror...
Read More "Dark Water"They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.
Posted on 08/09/2009 by Horror Extreme
Despite the expected poor dubbing and tawdry rock music (sounds familiar), Demons (Dèmoni) is a gore inspiring and influential Italian horror movie that has obviously helped fashion many a horror movie that has been created since. Packed to the gunwales with stereotypes and cringe worthy dialog, Dem...
Read More "Demons (Dèmoni)"The nightmare returns
Posted on 08/06/2009 by Horror Extreme
Demons 2: The Nightmare Is Back (Dèmoni 2: L'incubo ritorna) is pretty much an Italian zombie flick but with the undead referred to a demons and possessing a little more flair than the shambling gut-piles we are used to from the Italian reanimated population. Written by Dario Argento and directed by...
Read More "Demons 2 (Dèmoni 2: L'incubo Ritorna)"Hunted, raped, and tormented out of her mind...
Posted on 09/27/2009 by Horror Extreme
If you like "sleaze for the sake of sleaze" exploitation flicks then Jess Franco is a director delivered by angels. Another of Uncle Franco's entries in the DPP Video Nasty list is Devil Hunter (along with Bloody Moon and Women Behind Bars). Devil Hunter (also known as Sexo Canibal) is simply an exc...
Read More "Devil Hunter (Sexo Canibal)"Hell doesn't want them. Hell doesn't need them. Hell doesn't love them. This world rejects them.
Posted on 06/01/2008 by Horror Extreme
The Devil's Rejects is Rob Zombie's follow up to House of 1000 Corpses and was nearly called House of 2000 Corpses. Once again this horror master has created a masterpiece which, although a sequel to Corpses, is a very different movie. The bad guys from the first movie are back, Baby Firefly (Sheri ...
Read More "The Devil's Rejects"Six soldiers. Full moon. No chance.
Posted on 07/14/2009 by Horror Extreme
For an innovative yet still traditional werewolf movie look no further than British Horror movie Dog Soldiers. Following a team of soldiers who believe that they are on a routine training mission, the charismatic team soon realize that they may not have been given the right amount of information to ...
Read More "Dog Soldiers"The Day The Insane Took Over The Asylum!
Posted on 08/24/2008 by Horror Extreme
Originally titled The Forgotten, but better know by its reissue title of Don't Look in the Basement, this movie is a low-budget Video Nasty from acclaimed horror director S.F. Brownrigg. The low-budgetness of the movie is one of its defining qualities and the bad sound quality increases the terror b...
Read More "Don't Look In The Basement"When the kidding stops... the killing starts!
Posted on 11/30/2009 by Horror Extreme
Another movie banned in the UK during the Video Nasties hysteria in the 1980's is Pranks, probably better known as The Dorm that Dripped Blood. Directors Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow deliver another slasher quite stereotypical of the era, a time when slashers didn't require numb-nut panic-str...
Read More "The Dorm That Dripped Blood"Even nice people can go to hell.
Posted on 10/09/2009 by Horror Extreme
For those looking for a Raimi fix of old and, lusting over the camp, blood drenched hilarity of Evil Dead but wanting a bit more in special effects than stop-motion clay, then Drag Me to Hell is just what the psychiatrist ordered. Starring Justin Long from Jeepers Creepers fame and Alison Lohman fro...
Read More "Drag Me To Hell"The Blood Runs In Rivers... And The Drill Keeps Tearing Through Flesh And Bone
Posted on 06/18/2008 by Horror Extreme
Abel Ferarra's The Driller Killer is the movie that started off the whole Video Nasty hysteria in the UK during the early eighties. Made in 1979, the majority of the controversy surrounding the low-budget movie was due to Vipco's marketing campaign which consisted of a number of full page advertisem...
Read More "The Driller Killer"Disgusting and Disturbing Asian Horror
Posted on 05/18/2008 by Horror Extreme
Fruit Chan brings us a disgusting slice of twisted Asian horror with Dumplings (Gaau ji). A lot of attention has gone into this movie to make it gag-worthy and it definitely is, but we also have a highly original and well executed storyline depicting a scenario bordering on potential reality far fro...
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