Apr 2009 Horror Movie Reviews
This holiday season, the slay ride begins.
Posted on 04/30/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
The recent influx of horror remakes has led to a large number of disappointing horror experiences (mostly scanty J-Horror remakes). Director Glen Morgan (most renowned in the slasher world for his production and writing skills on Final Destination and Final Destination 3) has interrupted this trend ...
Read More "Black Christmas (2006 Remake)"Let the Slaughter Begin
Posted on 04/11/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Hallows Eve: Slaughter on Second Street is an independent slasher movie written, directed and produced by PJ Starks and Rodney Newton utilizing only resources local to them, shooting the movie in their local community of Owensboro, Kentucky and making use of the local talent to be the victims of the...
Read More "Hallows Eve: Slaughter On Second Street"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...
Read More "Evil Dead Trap (Shiryo No Wana)"Drenched in Creepiness
Posted on 04/21/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Even with its PG-13 rating, Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara) still manages to be a very unsettling movie and is one of the original influences (along with Ring) on what has become the current commercially accessible J-Horror formula. Dark Water was one of the first mainstream Japanese horror...
Read More "Dark Water"Crazy Metal Fetishism
Posted on 04/24/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
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...
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