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Film Review: God Bless America (2011)

Posted on 05/20/2012 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old Roxy.

REVIEW:

“A Dream To Some…–A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS!”
Merlin from John Boorman’s “Excalibur”

The television was too loud. It had to be it was competing with the screaming infant in his mother’s arms. The entertainment report was going on about how even more allegations of Michael Jackson being a child… More

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Film Review: Altered States (1980)

Posted on 05/10/2012 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.

REVIEW:

“Altered States”
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
-Dr. Johnson.

This film is a juggernaut of intellectual and stylistic eye candy, it is apocalyptic in imagery and in its nature this film is a tiny milestone marking… More

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Film Review: The Devil’s Carnival (2012)

Posted on 04/20/2012 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

Lost souls enter The Devil’s Carnival where they are each faced with the sins they committed in life

REVIEW:

I feel like this should be reviewed as separate entity from say watching the dvd/torrent or even seeing it in the theater when it gets released on a regular run. I have to write about this as its own thing because right now the way the film is being shown is in its own… More

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Film Review: Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Posted on 04/19/2012 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

In a remote corner of England’s lavish Peak district, a young archaeologist, Angus Flint, unearths a mysterious skull. When Angus escorts Eve and Mary to “holiday” festivities at Lord James’ castle, the sensuous and snakelike Lady Sylvia Marsh seizes the moment – and the skull. Lady Sylvia brings the skull down into the dank recesses of her gothic mansion where she engages in the erotic worship of her pagan god, the White Worm.… More

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Film Review: Fascination (1979)

Posted on 04/14/2012 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

This erotic horror film, set in 1905, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats.

REVIEW:

This film is a beautiful piece of genius sexploitation as only director Jean Rollin can deliver. As far as quality… More

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Film Review: Debauchery (1983)

Posted on 04/07/2012 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

The sexy Ryôko Watanabe stars as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage. She secretly joins the elite “Madame Machiko Society Club” to experiment with discrete sex games and the thrill of making love to anonymous men. The sexual perversion and sick depravity she is subjected to, by her clients, is much more than she… More

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Film Review: The Devils (1971)

Posted on 04/02/2012 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

This film focuses on an outspoken priest and a group of sexually repressed nuns in 17th-century France.

REVIEW:

I have this immense feeling of wanting to write about his film yet simultaneously I am at a loss for words merely because the landscape and the grandiose nature of what could be said about such an incredible cinematic achievement is simply so vast in its nature that the only upside to writing on such a… More

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Film Review: Sister Mary (2011)

Posted on 03/29/2012 by Josh Darling
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Homophobic detective Mark Rima (James Vallo) must “partner” up with the very gay and flamboyant Detective Chris Riant (Shawn Quinlan) to stop a serial killing Nun (Judy Tenuta) from offing 5 band members otherwise known as “The Ex Choir Boys.” But when it is determined that the detectives can’t solve the case on their own, expert F.B.I. profiler Agent Peccant (comedian Ant) is assigned to the case. As the details of the case slowly… More

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Film Review: Skeleton Key 3 – The Organ Trail

Posted on 03/22/2012 by Josh Darling
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So once again, Nilbog calls to you! It calls you back… Do you hear it? Howard does. And once again he and his band of merry men venture through that covered bridge and back into the world of monsters! With Cornelius still trapped in the town and on the run from zombies, Howard and crew try to seek him out for a glorious rescue and at the same time cure Howard’s all new zombie… More

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Film Review: 30 Minutes or Less (2011)

Posted on 03/19/2012 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else…

REVIEW:

Oh boy where to start…

I guess I need to start with Kevin Smith… He has NOTHING TO DO with this film –that I know of… But Kevin Smith is the place to start, more specifically the influence of his film “Clerks” on a legion… More

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Film Review: Texas Killing Fields (2011)

Posted on 12/02/2011 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.

REVIEW:

LIFE SPOILERS AHEAD THERE IS A LOT OF BAD NEWS IN THIS REVIEW. And by bad news I mean remakes and sequels that you probably didn’t want to know about.

The short version of the story is there is a serial killer in a small town in Texas… More

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Film Review: The Devil’s Double (2011)

Posted on 12/01/2011 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein’s sadistic son

REVIEW:

Okay before I get into this review there are a few disclaimers that I have to start with, because the film is a bit of a hand grenade.

1.  I understand that films (even Hollywood films) are used as propaganda during times of… More

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Film Review: The Child’s Eye (2010)

Posted on 11/01/2011 by Josh Darling
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SYNOPSIS:

A group of friends find themselves stranded in an old hotel. As they uncover the history beneath the walls they’re slowly drawn into its sinister past making it harder to get out alive!

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Film Review: The Hide (2008)

Posted on 10/27/2011 by Josh Darling
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On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting – the elusive sociable plover – he will have ‘twitched’ the entire British List. Tunt has his shortwave radio, packed-lunch and a portrait of his ex-wife Sandra for company. Suddenly, in the midst of a conversation with Sandra’s portrait, the hide door blows open and a bedraggled stranger – unshaven,… More

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Film Review: Unhappy Birthday (2010)

Posted on 10/16/2011 by Josh Darling
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Set in and around the remote tidal island of Amen, Unhappy Birthday is the fictional story of three outsiders’ battles against the twisted morals of an antiquated community. Inspired by British cult classics such as The Wicker Man and Hammer House of Horror, the film explores the fear of isolation and nature versus nature. A special birthday party becomes a living nightmare for City-dwelling couple Sadie and Rick and their friend Johnny.… More

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About Josh Darling

Writer, cartoonist, social anarchist and born again atheist, horror, cult and B-movie enthusiast Josh Darling divides his time between trying to raise or steal the money and equipment to make his own low budget opuses, writing reviews for HorrorNews.Net and raising 4 children to survive the Zombie Apocalypse. He is currently working on a pro-atheist comic book series called "The Adventures of Pete and Steve" done in the style of religious "tracks."


As a child he was forbidden to watch horror films and due to said film being a taboo he became obsessed with them. Later during a deep depression while working at a video store back in 1995 Josh started watching 3 - 7 movies a day and by best guess has probably seen close to 20,000 films. He owns thousands of rare and hard to find horror, art and silent films. Please do not ask him for a copy of "La Fin Absolute De Mond" because he will not share it.