Category Archives: Worthwhile Horror Movies

Piranha 3D

This may be the first film review where the review is longer than the script that was to make it, in fact I think it took me longer to write this than it did to make the first 2/3 of … Continue reading

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Slither

Comedy doesn’t have to be all “why did the chicken…” or “my gosh I can’t believe Jason Biggs just drank that!” all the time. Sometimes it can be the compounded effect of a series of elements and incidents so absurd … Continue reading

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An American Werewolf in London

There are directors who are technically or visually amazing, directors who can piece together various elements to tell a story well, directors who make things explode in the right way and provide easy thrills, and directors who know best what … Continue reading

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Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

So let’s hypothesize here. You make one of the more successful No-Budget films of all time against all odds. It is a horror film with no actors, minimal SFX and minimal story yet makes a comparatively huge profit (after a … Continue reading

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Event Horizon

Event Horizon is at once frustrating and effective, the frustration comes in revisiting the film and realizing that while there is much to admire, there could actually be so much more. The effectiveness comes from the lengthy build up and … Continue reading

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Near Dark

Along with Point Break and The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow has had three films now reviewed by this site, I never thought that would happen. Not that I have anything against Big Kat, it’s just that when you think of … Continue reading

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Aliens

Aliens is as good a film as there has been over the last 30 years, better than almost everything that preceded it and 99.99% of what has come since. Even with all the advances in technology and filmmaking techniques James … Continue reading

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Planet Terror (Grindhouse)

No-one was more excited than me when Tarantino and Rodriguez announced they would double-bill a pair of B movies simultaneously. Imagine my surprise and disappointment when Tarantino decided that making the film “look scratchy” and whacking a couple of old … Continue reading

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The Prophecy 2

I loved the original Prophecy flick, but it was well over a year before I thought to see if there was a sequel made, by that stage I was surprised to find that there were already 2 released, not bad … Continue reading

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The Forsaken

There is always room for good, cheap MA films, a couple of scares, some violence, ideally a little nudity and a crappy soundtrack. The Forsaken is a prime example. Basically it is a movie about a good looking young bloke, … Continue reading

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