tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17479766975818177132022-03-28T11:53:00.304-07:00...and thrillers...and sci-fi...and other stuffUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747976697581817713.post-46334442504878877072018-01-20T09:19:00.000-08:002018-01-20T09:19:19.590-08:00

Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis Starring: Thomas Wood, Connie Mason, Mal Arnold Not rated, 67 minutes BLOOD FEAST might not be the first film to feature graphic onscreen gore, but it was the first to use blood and guts as its primary selling point. Filmed in harshly lit 16mm and saturated in a garish early 60's south Florida color palette, the film tells the tale of mad Egyptian caterer

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Director: Jonathan Wright Starring: Megan Hutchings, Mike Webster, Aimee Feler, Christian Bako Not Rated, 79 minutes After witnessing one of their friends commit a very gory suicide, a group of heroin addicts decide to get clean. They agree to venture out to a secluded house in the country where they will be unable to access any more drugs, but only after making one last score to enjoy

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Director: Kimberly Peirce Starring: Chloe Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Judy Greer, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday Rated R, 100 minutes  With remakes coming each decade, Stephen King's classic novel CARRIE is moving into folk lore territory. It's not hard to see why; the twisted coming-of-age/revenge tale has universal appeal because we've all known a Carrie White, and we've all witnessed

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Director: Harry Bromley Davenport Starring: Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin, Maryam d'Abo, Simon Nash Rated R, 84 minutes The success of ALIEN spawned a slew of knockoffs, but perhaps none were as bonkers as this. XTRO is about a boy who witnesses his father being kidnapped by aliens. Of course, his mother doesn't believe him, and prefers to think that her husband simply

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Director: Chris LaMartina, James Branscome,  Shawn Jones, Lonnie Martin, Scott Maccubbin, Matthew Menter, Andy Schoeb Starring: Paul Fahrenkopf, Aaron Henkin, Nicolette le Faye, Richard Cutting Not Rated 83 minutess It's Halloween night in 1987, and a film crew from local news station WNUF is doing a live broadcast from the Webber House, a purportedly haunted house. Led by disinterested

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Director: Robert Eggers Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Julian Richings, Ellie Grainger, Bathsheba Garnett Rated R, 93 minutes  THE WITCH tells a simple story: a banished Puritan family's new life in exile is shattered when they are targeted by supernatural forces. But it's director Robert Eggers minimalist approach to horror and and a set of

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Director: Neil Marshall Starring: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Liam Cunningham, David Morrissey, Imogen Poots, Ulrich Thomsen Rated R,  97 minutes CENTURION is a bloody, action-packed film that speculates about one of the great mysteries of Western history: the fate of the legendary Ninth Legion of Rome. More specifically, it riffs on the often disputed theory that the

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Director: James DeMonaco Starring: Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Edwin Hodge, Rhys Wakefield Rated R 85 minutes In the not-too-distant future, America seems to have undergone a soft-fascist revolution, where the "New Founding Fathers" have instituted a national holiday known as "the Purge." Once a year, for twelve hours, murder and mayhem is legal, and anyone with violent

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Director: James Bickert Starring: Jett Bryant, Madeline Brumby, Paul McComiskey, Johnny Collins, Nick Morgan Not rated, 81 minutes DEAR GOD NO! is yet another low budget, shot-on-video trash flick that attempts to replicate the alleged "grindhouse" pictures of the late 60's and early 70's. After a strip club massacre in which they do battle with a rival bike club, the Impalers gang head out

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Director: Paul Hyett Starring: Rosie Day, Sean Pertwee, Kevin Howarth, Anna Walton, Jemma Powell Rated R 90 minutes THE SEASONING HOUSE uses the Bosnian Civil War as the backdrop for a tale of a little mute girl (Rosie Day) who is thrust into a nightmare. When her mother is executed during a neighborhood raid by a heartless warlord/mercenary type named Goran (Sean Pertwee; BACKWOODS), she is

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Director: Dominic Brunt Starring: Dominic Brunt, Joanne Mitchell, Eileen O'Brien, Nicky Evans Not Rated 82 Minutes In a last ditch attempt to mend their crumbling relationship, a married couple head off to a secluded countryside cottage. Husband Alex (director Dominic Brunt) has been out of work for a long time and has been hitting the bottle hard, while wife and breadwinner Meg (Joanne

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Director: Cade Saint Starring: Ben Friedman, Charlie Friedman, Henry Friedman, Andrew Wilson Williams, Ryan Patrick Williams, Cade Saint Not Rated 81 minutes GRIM REAPERS opens with a man home alone, sensing that he's being stalked by some unseen presence in the woods. He sits, drinks a beer, paces his kitchen, looks out windows, walks around his front porch, all the while acting uneasy. For

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Director: Jeremy Gardner Starring: Jeremy Gardener, Adam Cronheim, Niels Bolle, Alana O'Brien, Larry Fessenden (voice) Not Rated 101 Minutes If there's any sub-genre of horror that needs to be buried, it's the zombie film. Thanks to SHAUN OF THE DEAD (which is great), the walking dead have become a major source of amusement for hipsters and other folks who aren't really that interested in

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Director: Lucio Fulci Starring: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Paolo Marco, Andrea Occhipinti, Howard Ross Unrated 85 Minutes The Blu-Ray cover art for NEW YORK RIPPER proudly states "The Most Controversial Movie in History!" That probably isn't true, but it certainly is the nastiest and most controversial film in Lucio Fulci's catalog. While he certainly made gorier films (THE BEYOND, CITY OF

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Director: Jeremy Saulnier Starring: Macon Blair, Devon Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack Rated R,  90 minutes A terrible crime committed twenty years earlier sends a good natured, but inept, misfit named Dwight (Macon Blair) on a bloody quest to murder a recently released convict named Wade Cleland. As the story of BLUE RUIN unfolds, we learn why this seemingly gentle outcast is compelled

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aka  SEVERED: FOREST OF THE DEAD Director: Carl Bessai Starring: Paul Campbell, Sarah Lind, Julian Christopher, JR Bourne, Michael Teigen Rated R, 93 min A group of environmental activists make a stand against a Monsanto-style company they believe is decimating the forest by chaining themselves to a cluster of trees marked for removal. What they, as well as a few of the company's workers,

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747976697581817713.post-48989587542894890502015-01-17T13:48:00.000-08:002015-01-17T17:13:03.502-08:00

Director: Charles Band Starring: Wade F. Wilson, Ciarra Carter, Karen Black, Stacy Keach, Gregory Niebel, Siri, Amber Strauser, Maddox Not rated, 95 minutes Charles Band is back with yet another killer doll movie, this time with a story that attempts to exploit the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO. The star is a sixteen inch African bushman doll named Ooga Booga, who previously

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Director: Eli Roth Starring: Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, Cerina Vincent, James DeBello Rated R,  93 minutes Thanks to buzz generated on the festival circuit, along with glowing praise from Hollywood mega-director Peter Jackson, CABIN FEVER and its young director, Eli Roth, rode a wave of hype onto the horror scene. Praised as being a truly original and daring film that was unlike any of its

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Director: Tyler Tharpe Starring: JJ Huckin, Amy Paliganoff, Keelan Rushing, Linda McCormick, Becky Niccum Not rated, 90 minutes Life in a small town takes a turn for the weird when a mysterious white van, equipped with an electronic device intended as a sort of sonic weapon, arrives and begins broadcasting an array of unnerving sounds. The noises disrupt television and radio signals, and

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Director: George A. Romero Starring: Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Judith Riley, Keith Wayne Not rated, 90 minutes In the late 1960's, a small, Pittsburgh-based production company named The Latent Image decided to make the jump from commercials and industrial films to feature-length movies. Their first project would be a low-budget, black-and-white horror film

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Director: Hugo Fregonese Starring: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Rhys Williams, Frances Bavier Not rated, 82 minutes This was the fourth time Marie Belloc Lowndes' 1913 novel THE LODGER was made into a movie. Helen (Frances Bavier) and William Harley (Rhys Williams) are an older couple renting out rooms in their home for extra cash. One day a man (Jack Palance) arrives to

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Director: Bob Badway, Michael Emanuel, Igor Meglic Starring: Bill Oberst Jr., Corbin Bleu, Domiziano Arcangeli, Elizabeth Di Prinzio, Hali Lula Hudson, Shawn Caulin-Young Rated R, 94 minutes A low-budget horror anthology that tells five interrelated stories happening in and around Los Angeles. In the first story, "The Crossing", two psycho rednecks (Bill Oberst Jr. and Shawn Caulin-Young)

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Director: Gregg Holtgrewe Starring: Najarra Townsend, Jonas Goslow, David Coral, Christine Kellogg-Darrin, Daniel Jay Salmen Not Rated, 82 minutes Aurora (Najarra Townsend; CONTRACTED) and Chris (Jonas Goslow) are a pair of siblings who travel to their father's cabin deep in a remote wilderness. Upon their arrival, we learn that this isn't going to be a happy family get together. Dad (David

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Director: George A. Romero Starring: Ed Harris, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, E.G. Marshall, Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Stephen King Rated R This horror anthology from director George A. Romero and writer Stephen King is an unabashed love letter to the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950's. A boy (Joe King, son of Stephen, aka writer Joe Hill) is confronted by his angry father (Tom Atkins

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aka THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS Director: Justin Kurzel Starring: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshaw, Louise Harris, Aaron Viergever, Richard Green Not rated, 119 minutes SNOWTOWN is a harrowing portrait of the people surrounding Australia's most notorious serial killer. The film focuses on teenage Jamie, a young man living with his cancer-stricken mother and his two younger siblings in a low income

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