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Space Jockey Reviews’ rockets are ready to launch for Rabid (2019) – the latest bloody feature directed and cowritten by the horror-production duo Jen & Sylvia Soska of tWIStED tWIN,S PRODUCtIONS. Continue reading
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With earplugs in hand, I went to watch Stephen King’s It (2017’s remake of the original 1990 cult classic – a fact that surprisingly a lot of people around me do not know!). I had been traumatized by the movie once when I was a child (not remembering much except for the creepy clown sneaking children into underground pipes)… Continue reading
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Is the sound of peeling a tangerine like the sound of peeling flesh from a body? Does the fascia beneath release its dermal layer, as a fruity metaphor, resisting hopelessly, succumbing soon enough? Continue reading
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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
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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
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Tony (written and directed by Gerard Johnson) is a movie exactly about what it is sometimes subtitled–a “London Serial Killer”–ironically, far from the banality implied. As the tagline says, “It’s always the quiet ones.” Yes! If ever there was a misfit man who could be a killer, flaunting his psycho profile to the world, all the while looking utterly harmless, it would be a man like Tony… Continue reading
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A blurr of lights focus to a cityscape, a black-gloved hand slides across a metal railing, and a wanted poster features a sketch and photo of a dark-haired beauty. Emerging from the night is the female of fatal pulchritude herself–a sleek, ivory-skinned siren, in a floor-length trench coat and skin-tight leather. Continue reading
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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
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I have read articles and participated in discussions comparing Event Horizon (1997) to Hellraiser (1988) and vice versa, more than a few times. The similarities are obvious, although some say it’s like comparing the proverbial apples and oranges. Some say the fact that Hellraiser came first… Continue reading
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I’ve always liked that quote from Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy. I’ve always wanted to use it as the prelude to a movie review. However, previously, I hadn’t found just the right movie deserving of it’s message. Finally, VooDoo is that movie. Continue reading
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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
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The Devil’s Rock begins at night, June 5th 1944, as the camera pans down from a moonlit sky, to the waters of the English Channel. Two men are paddling, in their kayak, to the shore of Forau Island, five miles Northeast of Guernsey. It’s the eve of D-Day, and Allied commandos Captain Ben Grogan (Craig Hall) and Sergeant Joseph Tane (Karlos Drinkwater) have orders to destroy… Continue reading
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Thirty Proof Coil (from writer/director Will Schmeckpeper) begins with a foreboding fish in a bowl, cutting to close-ups of a woman’s bare feet, as she scurries from room to room in a house. Blue jean shorts and a midriff-baring top reveal more. Soon enough… Continue reading
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The Monster (written and directed by Bryan Bertino) is the story of a divorced mother and her daughter, both of whom hate one another, at least in the ways they express their feelings outwardly. Kathy (Zoe Kazan) is a woman who is mostly a piece-of-crap drug addict, alcoholic, and child abuser who… Continue reading
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Zombie films are too numerous to count, biting flesh from the living and eating brains in every way possible. Even zombie love stories are common now. I’m thinking of movies such as Warm Bodies, Zombie Honeymoon, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Life After Beth, Maggie, and the list goes on. However… Continue reading
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The list of movies about college coeds trekking into jungles to be eaten by cannibals is long and bloody. Littering the genre are decades of body parts, entrails and gore, filling a gratuitous but necessary niche… Continue reading
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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
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If ever you move into a small community in the countryside, and the locals are unfriendly, telling you that the woods nearby are haunted or filled with monsters, leave immediately! Yes! No matter how quaint and cozy the place looks, no matter how well-manicured and green those pastures are (especially if it’s someplace in Europe, with thousands of years of history), believe the scary backwoods tales and legends you hear. Continue reading
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Wouldn’t you love to have some company for the holidays? Wouldn’t you like to receive the perfect gift from your special someone? Wait! Before you say yes, turn on your brain and think. Who is it? How long have you known the person? Are there safer ways to go about meeting people, and better places to do it? Continue reading
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I am often asked who I think is the “scariest” of movie monsters. It’s a clichéd question, dragged through the blood of and gore of movie-loving minds the world over. Sometimes the answer is impulsive and easy, as it should be; other times, with more thought and criteria, and the need to justify, it’s not so easy at all. Continue reading
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Rockets are rumbling and ready to launch at Space Jockey Reviews, with the latest news from Sweden! Sargad (Wounded)–the first feature horror film from from the beautiful, ultra-talented Sarah Giercksky (and Bloody Fierce Productions)–is coming to DVD in 2017, making news at light speed! Continue reading
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Marvelous Mandy (directed by Chase Dudley, written by Brentt Slabchuck) is the story of a mentally-deranged woman named Mandy (Paula Marcenaro Solinger) who suffers from an inability to perceive and/or accept her life as it is. Rather than accept reality, … Continue reading
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Don’t Breathe has a truly killer opening – a man dragging a seemingly dead young woman down a road, by her hair, in broad daylight, through a subdivision of houses. Countless witnesses should have dialed 911 long ago. But, oddly, all is too quiet. Continue reading
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A phobia is bad enough, on its own, without other terrors to make it worse. Yes! Just a fear of going out of your house can be the worst of things to haunt you. However, imagine a situation where your home becomes… Continue reading
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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
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Lock your doors, and take your prozac! If you fear the outside world…or even if you don’t, beware! The latest film from writer/director Mark Dossett is “set in 1988, way before cell phones and the internet were common household items. Laurie Ann Cullom who suffers from agoraphobia, after being brutally attacked the year before, is now housebound. Continue reading
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Fuel the rockets and start the countdown! SGL Entertainment has acquired Intrusion and Intrusion Disconnected, starring SJR favorite Katie Stewart (Overtime, Revelation Trail), returning in her role as the knife-wielding Holly Jensen. Others featured in one or both of the … Continue reading
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“Excuse me! What the f#@&k is a crinoline head?” Good f#@&ing question, Janet! That’s exactly what the f#@&k I asked when I saw the first Crinoline Head movie, back in 1996. (Just kidding; it was last week, really.) But, seriously! Crinoline Head… Continue reading
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“Forbidden Forest is a dark fantasy film by Jennifer Linch about love, heartbreak, revenge and magic–a tale of two hearts becoming one and then tragically tearing apart. Set in a fantasy world of princes and a forest like non-other, Jennifer brings to life a stunning visual journey of a beautiful sorceress who… Continue reading