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Movie Review – Hellbender (2021)

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Hellbender, 2021. Directed by John Adams, Zelda Adams & Toby Poser. Starring Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, Lulu Adams, John Adams, Rob Figueroa, and Rinzin Thonden. SYNOPSIS: An isolated and lonely teenage girl discovers a family secret that challenges and changes everything she ever believed. Shudder Original movie Hellbender opens with the credits informing you that […]

Blu-ray Review – Bob Clark Horror Collection

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Bob Clark Horror Collection Directed by Bob Clark. Starring John Saxon, Margot Kidder, Alan Ormsby, Jane Daly, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, John Marley, Anya Ormsby, Olivia Hussey, Art Hindle, Douglas McGrath. SYNOPSIS: Box set featuring three 1970s horror classics from cult filmmaker Bob Clark. Bob Clark is not really a name you see bandied around […]

Blu-ray Review – V/H/S/99 (2022)

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V/H/S/99, 2022. Directed by Flying Lotus, Maggie Levin, Tyler MacIntyre, Johannes Roberts, Joseph Winter, and Vanessa Winter. Starring Jesse LaTourette, Logan Riley, Isabelle Hahn, Verona Blue, Jackson Kelly, Aminah Nieves, Ally Ioannides. SYNOPSIS: The found footage anthology series continues with a series of horror shorts set in the year 1999. The V/H/S series of anthologies […]

Movie Review – The Killer (2022)

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The Killer, 2022. Directed by Jae-Hoon Choi. Starring Jang Hyuk, Bang Ui Gang, Seo-young Lee, Tae-Hyun Cha, and Chae-Young Lee. SYNOPSIS: A retired hitman is brought back into active duty when the teenager he is babysitting gets involved in a human trafficking ring. Okay, let’s get this out of the way first – Korean action […]

Movie Review – The Irish Mob (2023)

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The Irish Mob, 2023. Directed by Patrick McKnight. Starring Rob McCarthy, Pauline O’Driscoll, Baz Black, Lynseyann Mulvey, Liam Griffin, and Eoin Duffy. SYNOPSIS: Irish gangland boss Val becomes the high priority target of the Dublin Garda after an armed robbery gets national coverage. Valentino ‘Val’ Fagan (Rob McCarthy) is the most feared man in Dublin, […]

Movie Review – Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (2021)

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Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, 2021. Directed by Kevin Kopacka. Starring Anna Platen, Jeff Wilbusch, Frederik von Lüttichau, Luisa Taraz, and Robert Nickisch. SYNOPSIS: A couple go to visit an old mansion they have inherited, and then things get weird. A hit on the festival circuit last year, director Kevin Kopacka’s Dawn Breaks Behind the […]

Blu-ray Review – Cursed Films

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Cursed Films, 2020. Directed by Jay Cheel. Featuring Phil Nobile Jr., Ryan Turek, Mace Neufeld, Wade Davis, Kane Hodder, Linda Blair, Michael Berryman, Eileen Dietz, Richard Donner, and Lloyd Kaufman. SYNOPSIS: Documentary series focusing on five of the most famously troubled horror movie productions. You could argue that every movie has its production troubles, from […]

Movie Review – The Twin (2022)

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The Twin, 2022. Directed by Taneli Mustonen. Starring Teresa Palmer, Steven Cree, Barbara Marten, Tristan Ruggeri, and Raul Talmar. SYNOPSIS: A family mourning the loss of one of their twin sons after an accident return to the father’s family home, but all is not well. If you thought that the ‘horror as a metaphor for […]

Blu-ray Review – Scary Movie (1991)

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Scary Movie, 1991. Directed by Daniel Erickson. Starring John Hawkes, Suzanne Aldrich, Butch Patrick, Ev Lunning, and Zane Rockenbaugh. SYNOPSIS: A nervous young man believes that an escaped killer is stalking him at a Halloween carnival. This Scary Movie is not the horror movie spoof from the 2000s but a low budget regional horror movie […]

Blu-ray Review – The Dunwich Horror (1970)

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The Dunwich Horror, 1970. Directed by Daniel Haller. Starring Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sam Jaffe, Talia Shire, and Donna Baccala. SYNOPSIS: A man seduces an innocent young woman in order to use her to bring back ancient entities in an occult ritual. As we enter the year of 2023 and the world seems […]