Horror Extreme Reviews
Excessive Violence from Takashi Miike
Posted on 04/19/2008 by Horror Extreme
Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1tremendously violent, tremendously twisted and slightly confusing Yakuza movie with the perverse and bizarre storyline that we have come to expect of Takashi Miike. The gore is excessive, the violence is brutal and there is a plethora of peculiar, complex, drug-fuelled ch...
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Death is just a breath away
Posted on 02/19/2008 by Horror Extreme
Infection (Kansen) is a J-Horror movie directed by Masayuki Ochiai (Parasite Eve) and from the creators of Ring, Grudge and Dark Water (according to the packaging). The movie is set in an underfunded, understaffed hospital and revolves around a group of un-rested, overstressed doctors and nurses abo...
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Terror that's hotter than hell!
Posted on 03/24/2008 by Horror Extreme
Inferno is the second part of Italian horror movie director Dario Argento's "Three Mothers Trilogy". Released in 1980, it follows on from Suspiria and concerns Mater Tenebrarum, the Mother of Darkness/Shadows.The movie begins in New Your where a poetess, Rose Elliot (Irene Miracle) discovers a book ...
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Stripped of Everything
Posted on 03/09/2009 by Horror Extreme
Into the Woods is a low budget psychological terror movie from independent horror director Phil Herman with a definite influence from the exploitation genre. Although low on shocks and gore (but not completely deficient), the confusing twists and turns of the plot create an unsettling atmosphere and...
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Savage cruelty was their culture... human flesh was their food!
Posted on 12/09/2008 by Horror Extreme
Isle of the Damned is a highly comical spoof of the Italian cannibal movies popular in the late seventies and early eighties. Purposely over-the-top and deliberately made to look as if it were a poorly filmed low budget movie (complete with poor film quality and terrible dubbing reminiscent of many ...
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