Nov 2008 Horror Movie Reviews
The final vision of a controversial filmmaker
Posted on 11/24/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
If you have ever wondered what the most depraved, sadistic, cruel and disturbing movie available to the general public is then you should maybe get yourself a copy of Salò or 120 Days of Sodom (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma). Salo is an extreme Italian movie directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and in...
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Every rose has its thorns.
Posted on 11/06/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
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...
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Su-chang Kong's Supernatural War Horror
Posted on 11/14/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
R-Point is a supernatural horror movie from South Korea set in Vietnam War surroundings (and filmed in Cambodia). As is common in K-Horror the movie is much darker than its Japanese counterparts and, although the movie is quite low on gore and the scares are quite subtle, the overall eeriness of the...
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The Last Call You'll Ever Get ...
Posted on 11/23/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
South Korean director Byeong-ki Ahn delivers another disturbingly spooky horror movie about phones... aptly titled Phone (Pon). Steeped in Korean folklore, Phone brings the kind of terror that fans of the genre have come to expect from Korea. There is nothing exceedingly original about this movie an...
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Some things are better left unseen
Posted on 11/23/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
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...
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