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Blood on the Bleachers, the latest film from director Chase Dudley, is a back-to-basics, old-school slasher, with all the best of the 90s…and even some of the 80s! A knife-wielding psycho in a mask, red herrings to keep us thinking, copious high-school victim fodder, and practical-effects make this one worth a watch…or a rewatch. While reminiscent of Scream… Continue reading
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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
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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
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Hallucinations in movies are rarely done right. If done correctly, visual hallucinations should be cowitnessed by the audience, only when the affected character is also looking in the direction of the hallucination. If the audience sees an objective view that the affected person… Continue reading
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Most movies that attempt meshing imagination with reality fail miserably. For most, the routes taken to connect and disconnect the two are paved with confusion and inconsistency; in the end… Continue reading
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I’ve often thought that revenge provides the best motives for the best horror movies. Revenge can turn ordinary people into monsters, at least for the time needed to cut, hack, slash and torture their way to happiness… Continue reading
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If you could have your choice of any birthday gift, what would it be? A diamond ring, a pearl necklace, tickets to your favorite vacation spot, a car, or any of the other usual, popular choices? Or, being honest, would it be something totally different! Could it, perhaps, be… 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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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“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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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
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I remember wanting many pets, as a child. I’ve always been quite the animal lover, and luckily my parents indulged me with most of what I wanted; I had fish, birds, salamanders, hermit crabs, and, of course, a dog. I even had… Continue reading
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Calling all Nexus 6 Replicants and sundry lifeforms across the universe! Humans, aliens, androids, and sentient beings everywhere are talking about this one. “Do androids dream electric sheep?” is the question we (like Philip K. Dick) seek to answer…all the more happily again! Continue reading
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How many times have you driven down the road, listening to your favorite song, and suddenly couldn’t find something you need? Worse yet, you realized it was lost? Too many times to count is the answer from most of us. Anything from a prized… Continue reading
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In this episode of Dissecting Cinema, Chris Rennirt, Zena S. Dixon, and guest Shardae review ThanksKilling–the only known holiday slasher with a serial-killing turkey, unlike any you’ve seen (or eaten) before! Yes, this lesser-known butterball is one well worth carving … Continue reading
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Laura (Morgan Monnig) is an optimistic but cautious young woman who knows, with the help of friends, that, as the cliché goes, good men are hard to find. Even when they look good on the outside, secrets beneath the surface… Continue reading
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The Fated Assemblage of Dr. Malvagio is one of those rare titles that creates mystery even before the story begins. And, better yet, it’s as original as anything I’ve heard, after several trips around the solar system! Yes, how many titles get your mind… Continue reading