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Film Review: Shock Labyrinth (3D) (2009)

Posted on 05/02/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

A group of teenagers take a sick to a hospital only to find out it is a horrific labyrinth

REVIEW:

Director – Takashi Shimizu
Starring – Yuya Yagira, Ai Maeda, Misako Renbutsu

I am a big fan of The Grudge, both the Japanese original version and the American remake, so when I saw that this was directed by Takashi Shimizu it would be more than fair to say that I had high expectations.… More

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Film Review: Goblin (2010)

Posted on 04/29/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in it’s path.

REVIEW:

Director – Jeffery Scott Lando
Starring – Gil Bellows, Tracy Spiridakos, Camille Sullivan

Brought to you by the good folks over at the SyFy channel, Goblin is a decent little creature horror movie that while not really scary in anyway, manages to keep the viewer… More

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Film Review: Saturday The 14th (1981)

Posted on 04/17/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

A Family moves into a house inhabited by scary creatures and a number of close calls ensue.

REVIEW:

Director – Howard R. Cohen
Starring – Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Jeffrey Tambor

There are some movies that stand the test of time and no matter how long ago they were made still manage to enthrall audiences. I really wish I could say the same for Saturday the 14th. I saw this back in the… More

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Film Review: The Last Hunter (1980)

Posted on 04/16/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.

REVIEW:

Director – Antonio Margheriti
Starring – David Warbeck, Tisa Farrow, Tony King

As a child of the eighties my introduction to the Vietnam war movie genre came courtesy of one John Rambo. Some would say not the best way to be introduced to it but at the time I thought… More

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Film Review: Cheerleader Camp (1988)

Posted on 04/13/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

An unknown killer is killing off the members of a small cheerleader group at a remote cheerleader training camp.

REVIEW:

Director – John Quinn
Starring – Betsy Russell, Leif Garrett, Lucinda Dickey

In a way there is nothing like the eighties for run-of-the-mill slasher movies. There were plenty of them back in the day and Cheerleader Camp (which also went by the title of Bloody Pom Poms) was one of the slightly more… More

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Film Review: The Woman In Black (1989)

Posted on 04/13/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman’s dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing. Ignoring the towns-people’s cryptic warnings, he goes to the house where he discovers its horrible history and becomes… More

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Film Review: Spellbinder (1988)

Posted on 04/13/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

A young lawyer, after falling in love with a beautiful woman, finds that she has an extremely mysterious past.

REVIEW:

Director – Janet Greek
Starring – Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich

I had seen this movie a couple of times before it was recently sent to me to review and have always enjoyed watching it. But how did it hold up after multiple viewings? I’m proud to say I still… More

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Film Review: Paperhouse (1988)

Posted on 04/12/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane present, she is drawn only deeper into a dream turning into a nightmare.

REVIEW:

Director – Bernard Rose
Starring – Charlotte Burke, Elliott Spiers, Glenne Headly

I… More

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Film Review: Lifeforce (1985)

Posted on 02/10/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

A race of space vampires arrive in London and infect the populous.

REVIEW:

Director – Tobe Hooper
Starring – Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth

If you’ve never seen this movie it’s the one with the nude space vampires. Well, at least one nude space vampire that is worth mentioning and her name is Space Girl (played by the absolutely stunning Mathilda May). Seems weird in a movie review that in the first… More

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Film Review: Dark Night Of The Scarecrow (1981)

Posted on 02/10/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

In a small town, a wrongfully killed man exacts revenge on those who murdered him beyond the grave.

REVIEW:

Director – Frank De Felitta
Starring – Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Larry Drake

The year was 1981 and on CBS a made for television movie debuted in the spooky month of October. Who would have thought that all of these years later, when it finally got the DVD release it… More

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Film Review: The House Of Clocks (1989)

Posted on 02/09/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

Three lowlife punks are trapped in a posh villa while trying to rob it and become at the mercy of the murderous owners whom have the power to stop and reverse time via their mystical clocks.

REVIEW:

Director – Lucio Fulci
Starring – Keith Van Hoven, Karina Huff, Paolo Paoloni

From famed Italian horror director Lucio Fulci comes The House Of Clocks, a somewhat tame Italian horror movie (though considering it was shot… More

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Film Review: The Sender (1982)

Posted on 02/09/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.

REVIEW:

Director – Roger Christian
Starring – Kathryn Harrold, Zeljko Ivanek, Shirley Knight, Paul Freeman

To say that the horror genre exploded in the early eighties is a bit of an understatement. Many factors were involved, including the widespread purchasing of the VCR, but one of the main ones was money. You… More

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Film Review: Mortuary (1983)

Posted on 02/07/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

Convinced that her father’s death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed.

REVIEW:

Director – Howard Avedis
Starring – Mary Beth McDonough, David Wallace, Bill Paxton, Lynda Day George

From low-budget producer and director Howard Avedis comes this serviceable if not somewhat strange horror movie from the… More

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Film Review: Beyond Evil (1980)

Posted on 02/06/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife.

REVIEW:

Director – Herb Freed
Starring – John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante

Sometimes there is nothing like a good haunted house movie. This subgenre is filled with classics and of course some not so classics. I think it would be safe to say that Beyond Evil… More

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Film Review: Bad Dreams (1988)

Posted on 01/12/2012 by Angel Van Croft

SYNOPSIS:

In the mid-’70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident. The psychiatrist tries to help her remember, but she begins seeing the leader of the cult talking to her from the grave, and the other members of her therapy group begin to commit suicide around her. Or is… More

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