Dead Hooker in a Trunk

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Yes! I admit it.  I just got around to watching Dead Hooker in a Trunk.  Believe it or not, it’s true.  How could you possibly wait so long, you ask?  Twelve years to be exact?  The answer is… Continue reading

AVENGED

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Yet another revenge-horror film it is!  “Oh no!” you say.  “Please, not another!”  But, wait.  There’s a silver lining in this blood-soaked playbook of could-be cliches and overdone drudgery.  This time it’s… Continue reading

THE HUNT: “Fair and Balanced” Political Satire for the Times

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It is almost amazing that a movie about warring conservatives and liberals would be made during such volatile political times.  Perhaps now, as things are worse than ever, such a movie wouldn’t be made; perhaps a bit earlier was just… Continue reading

THE LODGE

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Grace (Riley Keough) is the only survivor of a mass cult suicide she witnessed as a child, nearly twenty years earlier.  She has recovered from her trauma, only with medication, time, and protection from memories.  But, trouble is brewing again… Continue reading

MUJO: Creating an Epic Adventure

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Hailing all explorers of out-of-this-world cinema!  Space Jockey Reviews’ radar recently picked up transmissions hot off the intergalactic presses.  Shooting to top priority here at mission control is a new film in the works by director/writer Steve Squall, from Louisville, Kentucky… Continue reading

JULIA 17

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Just as incest, abuse and abandonment are real-world horrors, so is Julia 17–a surreal, stream-of-consciousness mind trip, where images and events flow as dreams, or sometimes as nightmares.  But, Julia’s nightmares… Continue reading

Tony

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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

Lone

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Is depression horror?  Absolutely, yes!  It’s what Space Jockey Reviews calls real-world horror.  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression. Twenty-five million Americans suffer from depression each year, and… 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 Scariest Movie Monster

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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

10 Cloverfield Lane

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Recently, on a weekend night at Walmart, in a one of those big, bargain movie bins (the one’s that have movies overflowing to the top, spilling onto the floor as you try to find the one you want), I found a bluray copy of 10 Cloverfield Lane. Continue reading

The Torment of Laurie Ann Cullom

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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

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

The Torment of Laurie Ann Cullom: Pray It’s Only a Movie!

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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

The Bay

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What happens when you  take millions of pounds of steroid-laced chicken poop, as much chemical pollution from agricultural runoff, add a radioactive water leak, and throw it all into a bay inhabited by carnivorous isopods that shouldn’t be there? Who knows! But, with such a mixture of really bad things, no outcome could be good. Continue reading

Ceramic Tango

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Some horror films scare us by tapping our imagination, making us believe somehow, if they are good enough, the unbelievable—struggling, at best, to maintain the fantasy. The scariest of horror is scary instead because it is… 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

Inglourious Basterds

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The story begins in Nazi-occupied France, early in the war. SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) arrives at an isolated dairy farm in the French countryside to very thoroughly do his job of hunting Jews. He has, thus far, done his job so well that he has… Continue reading

Nicotine Stains

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Can cigarettes be your god, your religion, or at least the little voice within you that is as powerful as a god anyway?  Even before seeing Nicotine Stains, I would have answered with an expected, resounding yes.  After seeing the movie… Continue reading

A Loving Memory

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“Heaven isn’t wide enough for both of us.”

Or, perhaps Hell isn’t wide enough for both of us! Yes, that’s the more likely, ironic thought you (or your other self) will have, after watching A Loving Memory–the first in the Tortured Girl Trilogy by Herbivore Productions. Continue reading

FAMILIAR

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Fighting your inner demons has never been more intense than it is in Familiar—the new short horror film written and directed by Richard Powell.  “After 45 years of existence, my life is about to begin,” is the quote that best sums up the plot, without giving away a story as unique as any I’ve seen in a long time. Continue reading

SISYPHUS AND THE ROSE

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Review by Chris Rennirt Stephen King suggests that Hell is repetition in his short story, “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French”.  The story is about a woman who is forced to repeat the first hours … Continue reading