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Film Review: The Beast and the Magic Sword (La Bestia y la Espada Magica) (1983)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the 16th Century, the lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky travels from his native Europe to Japan, seeking a way to cure himself of being a werewolf. Only a Japanese sorcerer named Kian and a magic silver sword can save him. REVIEW: The actor/director/screenwriter Paul Naschy is a name undoubtedly familiar to any fans of Spanish horror cinema. …

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Film Review: Stoic (2009)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cell mate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime. REVIEW:  While the director name of Uwe Boll conjures up all sorts of ranging interests in the horror sector, it has long been a hit or miss relationship …

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Film Review: Pixels (2015)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games. REVIEW: Quite possibly one of the very few films that was most likely intended for younger audiences, that ended up appealing to the older generation-x audience. These video games which by …

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Film Review: Good Wife (short film from The Profane Exhibit) (2013)

Rate This Movie REVIEW: Remember how excited we all were when we first heard about The Profane Exhibit? In case you haven’t heard of it, or maybe can’t remember anymore, it was an extreme horror anthology film announced back in 2011 that, by all accounts, was going to blow everyone’s mind. The collection of filmmakers brought together was the stuff …

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Film Review: Sexcula (1974)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman inherits a mansion and discovers a centuries old diary which details the exploits of Dr. Fellatingstein, who has created a man to satisfy her insatiable desires but he doesn’t seem up to the task. She summons a relative, Countess Sexula, to assist her in her quest for sexual satisfaction. Oh yeah…there’s an ape …

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Film Review: Spiral (2021)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in Spiral, the terrifying new chapter from the book of Saw. REVIEW: The torturous traps inspired by John Kramer are back on the silver screen this week-end. “Spiral: From the Book of Saw” makes its gory return to the “Saw” franchise with Darren Lynn Bousman (director of …

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Film Review: The Perfect Witness (aka The Ungodly) (2007)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When struggling filmmaker Mickey Gravatski (Wes Bentley) inadvertently records a notorious serial killer (Mark Borkowski) in the middle of a murderous act, he decides to use the footage to blackmail the madman into being the subject of a disturbing new documentary. Directed by Thomas Dunn, this unsettling psychological thriller explores the dark side of the human …

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Film Review: The Bride (1985)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name “Eva”. REVIEW: In the classic documentary – rockumentary, if you will – This is Spinal Tap, we learn that Tap’s bassist, Derek Smalls, has a small part in an Italian horror called Roma ’79. A very small part in …

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Film Review: Straw Dogs (1971)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Dustin Hoffman plays a regular American mathematician, who gets into some trouble with local bullies. He is made fun of and then his wife is raped. When they attack his home, he fights back. His outbreak of violence is extreme. Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife …

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