Reviews
Hell Awaits The Foolish
Posted on 09/19/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
For a craftily reverse-chronologically constructed horror movie about the temptations of hell, Necromentia, although not quite as inverted as Memento, manages to be an absorbing and fascinating fantasy with numerous loud shocks and more gore than you can shake a baby at. The story is obviously very ...
Read More "Necromentia"Fear your neighbor
Posted on 11/21/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Once the obvious buzzwords are disregarded Robert A. Masciantonio's Neighbor far supersedes the majority of horror movies labelled with "home invasion" and "torture porn". The character subtleties, the attention to detail, the copious obscure references to other horror movies and the abundance of in...
Read More "Neighbor"Crack Open a Cold One and Enjoy
Posted on 05/20/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
A movie that begins with a nerdy middle aged woman skilfully showering her golden German love lemonade into a grass verge without tainting her flowery undergarments immediately notifies the viewer that there will be sections of this film that are designed to shock. Follow this up with a car crash an...
Read More "Nekromantik""The duck became a sort of outside avenger..."
Posted on 09/11/2010 by Hellbound Heart
Ah, Lucio Fulci. He stopped making sex comedies just in time for his now-legendary forays into horror to get him banned in the UK. Mr. Fulci has the dubious honour of three of his films - The Beyond, The House by the Cemetery and Zombie - appearing on the infamous video nasties list of '84, a list d...
Read More "New York Ripper"An evil mutation embarks on a wave of brutal butchery.
Posted on 06/18/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Castration, dismemberment and disembowelment propelled Night of the Demon onto the UK's Video Nasty list and the movie remained banned there until 1993 when a cut version was released by Vipco. The movie is still banned in Norway and Germany and only a cut version exists in the UK. The movie became ...
Read More "Night Of The Demon"The windows look out onto hell... a view that will take your breath away... permanently!
Posted on 03/15/2011 by Hellbound Heart
I have to say that about halfway through this film I was ready dismiss it as rather longwinded and aimless: not only does Night Train Murders (aka Don't Ride on Late Night Trains or L'ultimo treno della notte) manage to claw its way back, but I ended up being rather impressed by this low-key example...
Read More "Night Train Murders (L'ultimo Treno Della Notte)"Sleep Kills
Posted on 01/31/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Definitely the most influential slasher movie in my humble career as a horror obsessive and a contender for "horror movie that started my mania", Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street summons my first memory of the excitement and trepidation that a newbie to the horror genre experiences when faced ...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)"Someone is coming back to Elm Street!
Posted on 02/13/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Faced with having to express an opinion on the whole Elm Street franchise, the most daunting one to rein judgment upon has to be the second installment, Freddy's Revenge. The main reason for this is due to the two very different scenarios in which this movie has seduced my retina and caressed my occ...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge"If you think you'll get out alive, You must be dreaming.
Posted on 03/14/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Despite being one of the better sequels in the Elm Street franchise, A Nightmare on Elms Street 3: Dream Warriors is definitely the turning point where Freddy starts to show off to his audience and begins the descending spiral towards the cartoon character he is destined to become. For the most part...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors"You shouldn't have buried me, I'm not dead
Posted on 03/18/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is the first indication that the franchise has less of a future than a marriage between Ted Bundy and a snuff fetishist. From the lame 80s opening music performed by Patricia Arquette's Kristen replacement (Tuesday Knight), the fact that they had to repl...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master"Now Freddy's A Daddy, He's Killing For Two.
Posted on 07/04/2010 by That Ghoul Ava
I'm not even going to try and bullshit you: I love everything Freddy. EVERYTHING. Perhaps it's because he encompasses everything I am - evil & sadistic with a dark sense of humor. Or maybe it's because I like my villains with personality. I also grew up (I use that term loosely) on the Nightmare on ...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child"Evil has finally met its match.
Posted on 07/13/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
The metamorphosis of Freddy Krueger from nightmarishly intimidating boogeyman to ridiculous pussified cartoon character reaches its climax of juvenile and uninspiring humour with the sixth Elm Street; Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. The character of Freddy is already dead by this instalment in t...
Read More "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare"The Dream You Can't Escape ALIVE!
Posted on 02/07/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Compared to a number of non-shocking movies on the video nasty list Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (also known as just Nightmare and also known as Blood Splash and Schizo) is well deserved of it's designation of nasty. Not only is the movie superbly gory, sleazy and violent it is put together in a wa...
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