Reviews
An unforgettable weekend.
Posted on 07/14/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Eden Lake is a disturbing British horror movie utilising the nations current fascination with youth violence to provide horror based on the present hysteria being caused by British sensationalist media. With the tabloid obsession with knife crime, gang culture and "happy slapping", what better way t...
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Can They Be Stopped?
Posted on 10/13/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Sam Raimi's 1981 horror movie Evil Dead manages to contain all of the essential elements from the whole horror genre including excessive gore, the supernatural, undead, dark humour, sex, violence and a chainsaw for bodily dismemberment. Due to these essentials the movie soon found itself on the UK's...
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Toshiharu Ikeda's Japanese Slasher
Posted on 04/04/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Considering Evil Dead Trap (Shiryo no wana) was made in 1988 is still kicks the ass of many of the recent cookie-cut J-Horrors. Rather than being a supernatural tale steeped in folklore and overrun by long haired apparitions (as we have come to expect from Japanese horror), Evil Dead Trap is more re...
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"All dirty women have to do something about their filthy hair"
Posted on 08/09/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
A Japanese movie entitled Exte – Hair Extensions (Ekusute) will instantly conjure up uninspiring pictures of standard supernatural hair-ghosts creeping out whiney Asian girls in an attempt to exploit the trend of J-Horror breaking into the Western world. This could not be further from the truth. The...
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