Anything for Jackson

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“It’s another demonic possession movie”…again!  Yes!  So, this review starts the same as the last, for another movie about Satan and biblical ends of the world. But unlike others I’ve seen, this one offers, with all its similarities, something refreshingly different. Continue reading

Kung Fu Ghost

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Kung Fu Ghost (the latest film from director, writer, actor, and producer Jennifer Linch) has something for everyone, with its masterful mix of genres—comedy, drama, action, romance, and yes, the expected… Continue reading

Lovely Molly

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Back in 1999, director Eduardo Sánchez took the horror world by storm, giving us not the first found-footage film, but certainly one that changed everything–The Blair Witch Project. Ten years later, in 2011, Sanchez returned as… Continue reading

THE PACT: A Short-Film to Feature-Film Comparison and Review

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I am always a little bothered in the end, when I learn that the title of a movie has nothing to do with the movie.  The Pact is just such a film that had me… Continue reading

DEAD MARY

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Some of the best horror films are those in which the monsters are the people around us, our friends and family, and anyone but the obvious, overt physical monsters we expect.  These monsters look just like our friends, relatives… Continue reading

KUNG FU GHOST: A Martial Arts Comedy/Mystery from Jennifer Linch

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The amazing Jennifer Linch–the award-winning martial-arts maven and master of genre mixing–is at it again, with a much anticipated supernatural comedy/mystery/action combo…and yes, another butt-kicking entry in the genre she does better than anyone else… Continue reading

Uninvited

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One of the most important elements any horror film can have is atmosphere–a dominant mood, emotional tone, or environment that surrounds and envelops us as viewers, making us feel that we are a part of it all as we watch. Continue reading

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

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I have used the word “visceral” to describe many horror films fully deserving the term’s meanings: “1. felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body, 2. of, relating to, or located on or among the body organs.”  However, NEVER, before The Autopsy of Jane Doe, have I seen a movie so truly… Continue reading

Bethany

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I have never been abused.  Thank God and whoever else for that!  However, I have often wondered how my life might be different had I been so unfortunate.  I have wondered how horrors inflicted upon me by a monster (of the human kind) could have made a monster of me… Continue reading

The Dark Tapes

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I always love a good found-footage horror film.  However, finding a good one is not so easy these days.  Since the first mainstream example in the genre–The Blair Witch Project in 1999–such a film with anything original and different to offer is about as easy as finding a new way to spell horror. Continue reading

How to Survive a Horror Film

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In my years watching horror films, I’ve accumulated a book’s worth of advice for surviving one.  Yes!  Life in a horror movie is a close call at death every minute.  Arteries are cut, necks are broken, bodies are eviscerated… Continue reading

The Inside

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What would you do if you acquired, by whatever means, a video camera with footage of something terrible, something with death, torture, murder, sex, mutilation, rape, and worse? The people involved may be in a place you know, just down the street, now a place unfamiliar, looking not of this Earth… Continue reading

Undying Love for You: An Official Selection at Imaginarium 2014

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Yes! You read that headline correctly! Undying Love for You (Space Jockey Reviews’ first feature-film) is now an official selection at Imaginarium 2014–a film festival in SJR’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky! Directed by Editor in Chief Chris Rennirt and actress/writer … Continue reading

The Cabin in the Woods

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What do you get when you combine all of the monsters and horror clichés in history with five coeds out for a weekend of fun, putting them all, neatly, into one ninety-minute movie? You get The Cabin in the Woods… Continue reading

Undying Love for You – Alive and Well in Postproduction

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When true love happens, it happens big–one way or another! That’s why the arrival of not one but two trailers for the latest Space Jockey Reviews production, Undying Love for You, is not surprising–but instead, an equally huge event anywhere in the solar system! Continue reading

Within These Walls with Kelsey Zukowski

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Yes! Rockets are ready to launch again at Space Jockey Reviews! What’s all the intergalactic glitz about? Kelsey Zukowski’s latest movie Within These Walls, that’s what! Continue reading

The Black Dahlia Haunting: Coming Soon to DVD and Blu-ray!

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Space Jockey Reviews has always been intrigued with the unsolved case of The Black Dahlia. So, of course, a movie titled The Black Dahlia Haunting is a no-brainer as an addition on the SJR watch list. What’s it about?  “While … Continue reading

Evil Dead (2013)

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When I first heard that Evil Dead was being done again, I thought, like so many others, “Not another unneeded remake of a movie that’s already a classic—and better yet, just fine as it is.”  However, with great skepticism and hope… Continue reading

RAVEN’S HOLLOW

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Raven’s Hollow is a great short film sent to me just in time for Halloween! Even though it’s animated, it loses none of the scary effects needed for the season. Everything about it makes it (rather than just memorable) something that could even become a Halloween tradition… Continue reading

CAMERA PHONE – What happened on March 20, 2010?

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I’ve always been a fan of found-footage movies. When done well, they assault our senses, unlike any subjective, staged narrative ever could. They create fear that is real, because it occurs in situations that could happen to any of us, … Continue reading

FATE ACCOMPLI

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A seemingly ordinary man checks into a hotel, unconcerned about the new amenities, or anything described by the clerk.   The hotel is upscale and obviously expensive.  The clerk remembers him well, so we know he’s been… Continue reading

GRAVE ENCOUNTERS

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As Grave Encounters begins, a TV producer is being interviewed about a program that’s about to air. He’s speaking very seriously, letting us know that, despite our doubts, this is the real deal, exactly as it was found… Continue reading

DARK HOUSE

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Dark House begins with three young girls riding bikes down a street that could be anywhere, towards a house you wouldn’t find anywhere. The house is gaudy, Victorian, and more odd than scary, until we hear a scream from within! Inside the house… Continue reading