Horror Extreme Reviews
Every rose has its thorns.
Posted on 11/06/2008 by Horror Extreme
Teeth is a very bold and disturbing independent horror movie taking a bizarre darkly humorous look at the subject of abstinence and the "coming of age" movie genre. The movie is far from full on splattification but is unsettling on a number of levels, firstly it is the scumbags that are involved wit...
Read More "Teeth"Terror Beyond Belief
Posted on 08/09/2008 by Horror Extreme
Tenebrae (also known as Tenebre) is Italian horror director Dario Argento's 1982 return to the giallo sub-genre after his supernatural horror movies Suspiria and its sequel Inferno. Heavily censored in the US (released as Unsane with more than ten minutes cut) and banned in the UK as a Video Nasty, ...
Read More "Tenebrae"Let's Make Some Art!
Posted on 08/13/2009 by Horror Extreme
Terror Firmer is possibly the epitome of the Troma stereotype created by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz. This is clown like humor designed specifically to shock, disturb and repulse those that see it. The opening scene depicts a pregnant woman being relieved of her unborn at the hands of an overtly ...
Read More "Terror Firmer"Crazy Metal Fetishism
Posted on 04/24/2009 by Horror Extreme
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a very trippy 1989 black and white movie from Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto with a very arthouse feel to it. Concerned with imagery and symbolism rather than a coherent and straightforward storyline, Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a bizarre yet metaphorical ride through the cru...
Read More "Tetsuo: The Iron Man"Some things are better left unseen
Posted on 11/23/2008 by Horror Extreme
Gin gwai (or as it is more commonly known in this neck of the woods – The Eye) is a horror movie of the supernatural variety from the masters of horror the Pang brothers (Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang). Followed by three sequels (The Eye 2, The Eye 3 and Eye 10) and remade twice (India's Naina in 2...
Read More "The Eye"Tokyo is burning
Posted on 07/10/2009 by Horror Extreme
If the need arose to compare Tokyo Gore Police to another Japanese movie then Stacy springs to mind although the gore levels are far more outrageous and, unbelievably, Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies has a more composed storyline. If the need arose to compare Tokyo Gore Police with anything ...
Read More "Tokyo Gore Police (Tokyo Zankoku Keisatsu)"One Day She Met a Man Who Loved Beautiful Women...But Not All in One Piece
Posted on 10/18/2009 by Horror Extreme
With a tagline of "When Whores Meet Saws" and a bright yellow cover promising the "finally uncut" version drawing in horror fans like moths to a light bulb, the expectation that Torso AKA Carnal Violence (I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale) would contain more bush and gore than the 2000 p...
Read More "Torso AKA Carnal Violence"Some Nightmares Haunt You. Some... Can Kill You.
Posted on 05/17/2008 by Horror Extreme
Once again it is Dario Argento representing the Italian horror genre with Trauma. Many Argento fans consider this movie as the point in the horror masters career where his work started going down hill, whilst I understand that after such classics as Suspiria and Deep Red there were high expectations...
Read More "Trauma"His fear began when he woke up alone. His terror began when he realised he wasn't.
Posted on 07/14/2009 by Horror Extreme
In 2002 British director Danny Boyle proved that the concept of a zombie movie can be updated and used to scare a whole new generation of horror fans. The notion of a fast moving zombie rather than the slow shambling undead that we have come to expect is not a new idea and was first noticeably used ...
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