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Film Review: Happiness in Slavery (short film) (music video) (1992)

Rate this FilmOne of the many music videos released by the music act Nine Inch Nails, “Happiness in Slavery” was a track on their “Broken” EP released in 1992. The video itself is an all black and white music controversial video that was included in the NIN’s “Closure” video compilation release. It’s original version (un-edited) was banned due to its …

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Film Review: Grim (2010 )

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: Young Nicholas Grim is forced to witness the brutal murder of his parents by Armed Militant Forces in Texas. Now an adult, Grim vows to avenge his family and uncover their killer’s motives. REVIEW: Good day to you my acolytes & those who are soon to be acolytes. Your accommodations in my acolyte barracks is ready …

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Film Review: Uncaged (2015)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: A sleepwalking teen straps a camera to himself and discovers a sinister family secret. REVIEW: Of all the horror subgenres, the most inconsistent one of them all is the werewolf film. There’s a handful of really great ones (THE HOWLING, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, and GINGER SNAPS to name a few) but the mediocre and …

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Film Review: Death Race (2008)

Rate this FilmSYNOPSIS: “In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans by the millions watch criminals with life sentences race armored cars on Terminal Island. Two-thirds of the combatants die but the winner may earn his freedom. On the day he loses his job, steelworker Jensen Ames is arrested for his wife’s murder. Sent to Terminal Island, he’s offered …

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Film Review: Wrong Turn (2003)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: License to Drive meets Deliverance when Scott (Desmond Harrington) crashes into a carload of three other young people (Eliza Dushku, Jeremy Sisto and Emmanuelle Chriqui). The foursome is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they’re hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured via generations of inbreeding. Should’ve called AAA!

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Film Review: Lyle (2014)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: A mother’s grief over the death of her toddler leads to horror. REVIEW: It may ruffle feathers, but I’ve never been able to get into “Rosemary’s Baby.”  Though I enjoy Ira Levin‘s novel and appreciate Roman Polanski’s artful interpretation (we’ll pretend this year’s made-for-television debacle never happened), that nagging sensation of being bored to tears still …

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Film Review: The Watermen (2011)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: A clan of watermen capture a crew of sport fishermen who must then fight for their lives. REVIEW: As far as horror sub-genres go, I have never been particularly fond of torture p*rn. Oftentimes good story telling is neglected in favor or over-the-top gore and violence. While watching people get skinned alive is certainly cringe-worthy, I …

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Film Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: In London, the sideshow troupe of Doctor Parnassus promises to the audiences a journey to the “Imaginarium”, an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus where dreams come true. In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, to the midget Percy, and his assistant Anton, he claims to have more than …

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