SYNOPSIS: Jennifer Hills is still tormented by the brutal sexual assault she endured years ago. She’s changed identities and cities, reluctantly joining a support group where she begins to piece together a new life. But when her new friend’s murderer goes free and the tales of serial rapists haunt her, Jennifer will hunt down the men responsible and do what …
Read More »Film Review: A Taste of Phobia (2018)
SYNOPSIS: For this anthology movie, producers Vestra Pictures assigned international directors with a phobia and set them to work making a horror short about it. REVIEW: A Taste of Phobia is a horror anthology film put together through the cooperation of Vestra Pictures, Trash Arts Productions, and Artsploitation Films. The theme here, fairly obvious by the title of the film, …
Read More »Film Review: Necro Files 2: Lust Never Dies (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Murder runs deep in the Logan family. The brother of the maniac (turned zombie) in THE NECRO FILES becomes a crazed cannibal rapist and unwittingly reanimates his evil brother’s corpse as a flesh-eating zombie rapist! Together, the pair go on a berserk killing spree in the streets of Seattle! Detectives Sloane and Manners investigate the grisly murders in this …
Read More »Film Review: German Angst (2015)
SYNOPSIS: Three German tales of love, sex and death in Berlin from Germany’s most shocking directors. REVIEW: I have been hearing about and reading about and anxiously awaiting for the release of German Angst for close to two years, and now it has finally arrived. There’s been a lot of buzz about this anthology, and for the longest time it …
Read More »Interview: Steve De Roover (Forgotten Scares: An In-depth Look at Flemish Horror Cinema)
I first heard of Steve De Roover back in October, 2017, when I saw he was making a documentary about foreign horror films. If there’s one thing I’m a sucker for, it’s documentaries on horror films. We might live half the world away from each other, but thanks to the internet, I found a way to contact him and wrote …
Read More »Film Review: BloodLust (1977)
SYNOPSIS: A deaf and dumb accountant suffers from a psychic trauma in his childhood. He is collecting puppets and mutilates female bodies in the mortuary. After his secret love died by an accident he starts to kill.
Read More »Film Review: The Abomination (1986)
SYNOPSIS: An old woman coughs up what she believes to be a tumor. While asleep, the thing crawls inside of her son and reproduces inside him, then causes him to go on a killing spree to feed it. REVIEW: The Abomination is the first full-length movie written and directed by Bret McCormick (see also One Man War and Repligator), but …
Read More »Film Review: Fantom Kiler (1998)
SYNOPSIS: Fantasy and reality become blurred as a misogynistic, masked killer ritually stalks and kills beautiful women who he has encountered previously. REVIEW: To take a look at the cover art and movie poster of Roman Nowicki’s 1998 release and debut film, Fantom Kiler, one might think it looks more like a P*rno than a horror movie. One who thought …
Read More »Film Review: Vampyres (2015)
SYNOPSIS: Faithful to the sexy, twisted 1974 cult classic by Joseph Larraz, Vampyres is an English-language remake pulsating with raw eroticism, wicked sado-masochism and bloody, creative gore. Victor Matellano (Wax (2014, Zarpazos! A Journey through Spanish Horror, 2013) directs this tale set in a stately English manor inhabited by two older female vampires and with their only cohabitant being a …
Read More »Film Review: Scrapbook of Blood (2014)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Three stories of madness, bloodlust, and carnal havoc. REVIEW: I have reviewed over 150 movies for HorrorNews.net since coming on board back in 2013. There’s been a lot of good ones in there (hell, there’s been some outright great ones), and there have been some not so good ones as well. Even in the complete clunkers, …
Read More »Phil Stevens’ Flowers 02 Crowdfunding Campaign/Chat with Cast and Crew
Phil Stevens is in the process of writing a new chapter in horror with his darkly artistic, bloody and upsetting films, telling his nihilistic stories of death and destruction with strong visuals and a distinct lack of dialogue. With Flowers (2015), we have the unique tale of a serial killer as told by his deceased victims. In 2016, Lung II …
Read More »Film Review: Flesh of the Void (2017)
SYNOPSIS: Flesh of the Void is a terribly disturbing experimental horror film about what it could feel like if death truly were the most horrible thing one could ever experience. It is intended as a trip through the deepest fears of human beings, exploring its subject in a highly grotesque, violent and extreme manner.
Read More »Film Review: Francesca (2015)
SYNOPSIS: Two detectives must catch a serial killer, but their only chance to find him, is to solve the case of missing girl who disappeared 15 years ago. REVIEW: Francesca is an Argentinian giallo thriller from director Luciano Onetti (co-written with brother Nicolas Onetti; this is Luciano’s second film, his first being Sonno Profondo/Deep Sleep). Believe it or not, this …
Read More »Film Review: Red Krokodil (2012)
SYNOPSIS: The breakup of the body that this drug causes, helped me to symbolize a breakup too visually Interior unstoppable. REVIEW: Domiziano Cristopharo is an Italian filmmaker who has played a variety of roles over the years – writer, director, editor, producer, cinematographer, and there’s even a little bit of special effects makeup work on his resume. His films tend …
Read More »Film Review: FilmGore (1983)
SYNOPSIS: A bloody collection of film clips from many of the most violent films ever made. Driller killers, Plasmatic Perverts and Sadistic Slashers are just a few of the disturbed individuals starring in this morbid collage. REVIEW: In what feels like a throwback to the video store days, when we judged the VHS tapes almost solely on their covers (and …
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