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Sean Leonard

Sean is an established punk rock drummer, a just-starting-but-already published fiction writer, a passable horror movie actor (by actor, we mean extra), and, of course, a horror writer/reviewer. But more than any of that, he's a fan at heart. If you watch a horror movie with him, he'll drive you crazy connecting actors and writers and directors to other actors and writers and directors. He lives in Kentucky with his horror-loving wife, his soon-to-be horror loving stepson (he has such sights to show him...once he gets older), and his dogs who could go either way on most horror movies, and yes, he does recognize that he is one lucky s.o.b.

Film Review: 555 (1988)

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A spate of killings of teenagers by a maniac dressed like a hippie causes a detective to check the records for similar killings. He discovers that every five years, in the fifth month of the year, for five consecutive days, the same type of killings have occurred, and the few descriptions of the suspect always match: he’s …

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Film Review: Caterpillar (2010)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier… but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle in mainland China. All hopes, from the village men and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant’s wife: she must honor the Emperor and the country …

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Film Review: The Untamed (2016)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction. REVIEW: The Untamed (or La Region Salvaje, which translates literally to The Wild Region) is a sci-fi/horror film coming …

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Film Review: Red Room (2017)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Held hostage in an isolated house, three kidnapped women attempt to escape from their sadistic captors. REVIEW:  Written and directed by Stephen Gaffney (Bully [2015, not the Larry Clark film], Class A) and co-written by Erica Keegan (co-writer along with Gaffney of the upcoming The Profession of Violence), 2017’s Red Room combines a familiar title with …

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Film Review: The Red Nights of the Gestapo (1977)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An illustrious group of German industrialists plot to overthrow Hitler by negotiating a peace treaty with England. Disgraced, but dedicated Nazi officer Colonel Werner von Uhland is assigned by his superiors to ferret out these deceitful dissidents and stop them before it’s too late. von Uhland recruits a bunch of beautiful women to seduce these traitors …

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Film Review: Extremity (2018)

SYNOPSIS A young woman obsessed with horror subjects herself to hours of grueling torment inside an extreme haunt in an attempt to confront her fears and conquer the tragic past that haunts her. REVIEW: In less experienced, less capable hands, a horror movie based around an extreme haunt has a high potential of crashing and burning. Picture it: a secretly …

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Film Review: Rot (1999)

SYNOPSIS: Sarah has a surprise and gruesome announcement for Muzzy… she has contracted a deadly virus called the ROT which she got by sexing a dead guy from the local funeral home, and now she has passed it along to Muzzy. Slowly the two of them begin to ROT alive, spreading the insidious, flesh-melting disease to friends and foes and …

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Film Review: Crazy Murder (2014)

SYNOPSIS: The film follows a severely mentally ill homeless man over the course of a year in the streets of New York City as he commits a string of senseless murders and disgusting acts. With very little dialog and subtle background music, as Crazy Murder unfolds the viewer is subjected to disgusting nails-on-chalkboard visuals and senseless acts REVIEW: Crazy Murder is a …

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