Aug 2009 Horror Movie Reviews
The nightmare returns
Posted on 08/06/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Demons 2: The Nightmare Is Back (Dèmoni 2: L'incubo ritorna) is pretty much an Italian zombie flick but with the undead referred to a demons and possessing a little more flair than the shambling gut-piles we are used to from the Italian reanimated population. Written by Dario Argento and directed by...
Read More "Demons 2 (Dèmoni 2: L'incubo Ritorna)"They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.
Posted on 08/09/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Despite the expected poor dubbing and tawdry rock music (sounds familiar), Demons (Dèmoni) is a gore inspiring and influential Italian horror movie that has obviously helped fashion many a horror movie that has been created since. Packed to the gunwales with stereotypes and cringe worthy dialog, Dem...
Read More "Demons (Dèmoni)"Let's Make Some Art!
Posted on 08/13/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
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"Another Bloody Office Outing
Posted on 08/29/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Severance is an effective British comedy-slasher with a star studded cast of British actors providing a typical wit dryer than a vagina in a nunnery. The movie provides a balance of humor and violence managing to extract absurdity from some disturbing situations inspiring simultaneous cringing and m...
Read More "Severance"King of Japanese Grotesque Movie
Posted on 08/21/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
With all the surrounding hype and it's UK banning by the BBFC, extreme horror fan's expectations have been set quite high for Kôji Shiraishi's Japanese exploitation flick Grotesque (Gurotesuku). It is a travesty that the movie was banned for trivial reasons such as being "an unrelenting and escalati...
Read More "Grotesque (Gurotesuku)"More Craziness from Takashi Miike
Posted on 08/27/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Never known to conform (well maybe One Missed Call was conforming), the crazy brain of Takashi Miike delivers another 1.48333 hours of Yakuza profoundness with Gozu (Gokudo kyofu dai-gekijo: Gozu, which translates as Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow's Head). The movie starts off as a peculi...
Read More "Gozu (Gokudo Kyofu Dai-Gekijo: Gozu)"Dead Evil Hunting
Posted on 08/31/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
It is sometimes difficult to get away from the long-haired ghost girls in Japanese horror but if you look beneath the mainstream there are often little hidden gems amongst the plethora of superstitious, folklore inspired supernatural J-Horror. One such gem is Junk: Shiryô-gari, Atsushi Muroga's excu...
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