Films Reviews

Welcome to HorrorNews.net's exclusive archive of film reviews. This section is comprised of all our collective movie reviews. While our branding is horror-focused, we believe in also covering a wide range of genre-related features.

HorrorNews.net reviews films that range from horror, science fiction, cult, action, fantasy, Asian, super hero, to animation. Because we are die hard fans ourselves, we also tend to know what genres like-minded folks will find interesting. All our reviews are sent out, reviewed by real reviewers (most of which work within different facets of the industry) and collected here to give our unbias opinion on them. Simply enough, if the film is crap we'll call it out...if it's brilliant, we'll give credit where credit is due. Come to this section for all our latest film and movie reviews. If you prefer a more isolated category, we also have section exclusive to those.

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Film Review: Dead Before Dawn 3D (2012)

Posted on 01/24/2013 by Dave Gammon
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After Casper Galloway reluctantly agrees to watch his grandfather Horus’s infamous occult shop he makes a drastic error in judgment, ignoring senior Galloway’s instructions. While attempting to impress the object of his desire and a group of unlikely bystanders, he accidentally unleashes an evil curse that causes people to kill themselves and turn into zombie demons aka Zemons. Will the youths be able to rise above a seemingly doomed town or will … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Hugo (2011)

Posted on 01/24/2013 by Nigel Honeybone
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SYNOPSIS:

“Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mechanical man) that doesn’t work without a special key which Hugo needs to find … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Laddaland (2011)

Posted on 01/23/2013 by Ian Shone
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Ladda Land is based on the true story of a gated community that was shut down after a series of mysterious deaths and paranormal occurrences. When a family moves to Ladda Land, an upscale housing development with large, beautiful homes, they discover life in their new neighborhood isn’t so perfect when they encounter a series of terrifying, paranormal events that drives the family to the edge of insanity.

REVIEW:

It’s a pity … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Eyes of The Woods (2009)

Posted on 01/23/2013 by Troy Escamilla
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SYNOPSIS:

A group of teens find themselves lost and soon hunted by an unforgiving creature deep with the woods

REVIEW:

If anything can be said for Eyes of the Wood it is that is full of ambition. In spite of its ultra low budget, the film utilizes three different directors, had a plot that teeters between two different time eras, and has some impressive special effects. The prologue to the film is unique … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Eaten Alive (1980)

Posted on 01/23/2013 by HorrorNews.net
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SYNOPSIS:

Sheila follows her sister’s last steps before her disappearance. These take her to a New Guinean jungle, where a white man, reverend Jonas, has erected himself as chief of a Purification sect seeking to bring collective suicide to both a cannibal tribe and his American followers. As Sheila goes deeper into the jungle, she will discover that her fate is as precarious and uncertain as her sister’s.

REVIEW:

Eaten Alive is one … Continue reading →

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Film Review: State of Emergency (2010)

Posted on 01/23/2013 by John Townsend
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Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town’s residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.

REVIEW:

Entering into the zombie genre, or taking … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Bad Kids Go to Hell (2012)

Posted on 01/22/2013 by Rob Getz
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SYNOPSIS:

On a stormy Saturday afternoon, six students from Crestview Academy begin to meet horrible fates as they serve out their detentions. Is a fellow student to blame, or perhaps Crestview’s alleged ghosts are behind the terrible acts?

REVIEW:

Putting forth a valiant effort to offer yawning Netflix surfers on the uneventful Wednesday a taste of outside-the-box spontaneity, “Bad Kids Go To Hell” (“BKGTH” from here in) certainly does not fail for lack of commitment … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Crazy Love (1987)

Posted on 01/22/2013 by Phil Russell
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SYNOPSIS:

1987 was a great year for Charles Bukowski screen adaptations. Barbert Schroeder offered up Barfly, a low-life epic of squalor and drunkenness starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. In the same year, Dominique Deruddere presented his debut feature, Crazy Love, a much lesser-known film that stunned the arthouse crowd with its darkly amusing and disturbing edge. But since its initial release, this film has gone on to be regarded as one of … Continue reading →

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Film Review: The Bride of Frank (1996)

Posted on 01/22/2013 by Phil Russell
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SYNOPSIS:

This is what happens when a bunch of warehouse workmates get together with a video camera to make a ‘movie’. Hopelessly amateur and inept in all areas, The Bride of Frank is nonetheless outrageous fun and often laugh-out-loud hilarious.

REVIEW:

Directed by Escalpo Don Balde (Steve Ballot)

The story follows an old homeless bum as he abducts a little girl, smashes her head in when she gets mouthy, and then drives over … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Dark Water (2002)

Posted on 01/21/2013 by Ian Shone
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SYNOPSIS:

A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.

REVIEW:

Following hot on the heels of the execrable Sadako 3D, here we have the perfect antidote. Dark Water is Hideo Nakata’s second adaptation of a Kôji Suzuki story, and it is also one of several Japanese horror flicks to have been given the dubious honour … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Wake in Fright (1971)

Posted on 01/20/2013 by Rob Getz
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Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting … Continue reading →

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Film Review: The Necro Files (1997)

Posted on 01/20/2013 by seanofthedead
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SYNOPSIS:

A cannibal rapist rises from the grave as a flesh-eating zombie sex maniac! Two Seattle cops, a satanic cult and a flying demon fetus try to stop the lust-crazed ghoul before he can kill again.

REVIEW:

There are few things that irritate me more than when my Satanic blood sacrifice at the local cemetery is interrupted by an undead rapist tearing off my friend’s penis. But that is exactly what puts into … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

Posted on 01/20/2013 by Nigel Honeybone
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SYNOPSIS:

“Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The centre of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mister Hand, who is … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Branded (2012)

Posted on 01/19/2013 by HorrorNews.net
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SYNOPSIS:

Set in a dystopian future where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man’s effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.

REVIEW:

It’s rare these days to find a truly remarkable film about the subjects of advertising, marketing and science fiction that work so well together. “Branded” is truly unique in its approach and execution. While viewers … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Men Behind the Sun 4 (Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre) (1995) – CAT III

Posted on 01/19/2013 by seanofthedead
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SYNOPSIS:

In 1937, Japanese troops raid the Chinese city of Nanking to execute a planned massacre by subjecting over 300,000 helpless civilians to various tortures and atrocities before slaughtering them all.

REVIEW:

In 1980, while working for Shaw Brothers Studio, Chinese film director Tun Fei Mou decided he was done with kung-fu movies and considered doing a children’s movie. Around the same time, he began learning about Unit 731, a secret biological … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

Posted on 01/19/2013 by HorrorNews.net
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SYNOPSIS:

After rising from his volcanic grave, Godzilla is threatened by a mutated rosebush.

REVIEW:

Oh man, is it just me or do some of these later Godzilla movies tend to veer towards some sort of statement about the ecological system and the crap they are putting in the water. Like the films: “Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster”, “Godzilla vs. Biollante” also adds this agenda to its … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Girls Against Boys (2012)

Posted on 01/19/2013 by HorrorNews.net
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SYNOPSIS:

After a series of bad experiences with men, Shae teams up with her co-worker, Lu, who has a simple, deadly way of dealing with the opposite sex.

REVIEW:

Lu (Nicole LaLiberte) and Shae (Danielle Panabaker), waitress / bartenders at a local club, live their lives like most young folks who work for a living. It’s the daily grind and then an occasional night of fun. Partying keeps them actively meeting new people … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft (2013)

Posted on 01/18/2013 by Daniel King
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SYNOPSIS:

American teenagers Hansel and Gretel (no, really) are imprisoned by an evil old lady who lives in the woods and makes meat pies out of the youngsters she captures.

REVIEW:

When the fateful words ‘An Asylum Production’ appeared on my screen, barely a few seconds into the movie, my heart sank. For those few innocent souls who have still to hear of The Asylum they are a production company that specialises in low-budget … Continue reading →

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Film Review: Return of the Boogeyman (1994)

Posted on 01/17/2013 by Todd Martin
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SYNOPSIS:

A doctor and his oddball assistant try to help a young woman who is tormented by visions of murders being committed by the guy (who sort of looks like pro wrestler Alberto Del Rio) with the pantyhose on his head from the first movie.

REVIEW:

I really wasn’t that impressed with The Boogeyman to be quite honest with you (see my review for it on this … Continue reading →

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