Toshiharu Ikeda’s Evil Dead Trap is a film made by a horror fan. Despite its restricted budget, the work functions admirably and, in lieu of presenting nothing extraordinary, manages to keep its audience entertained throughout. Nothing more, nothing less--which is...

Evil Dead II is a slicker version of its predecessor, served with a very liberal dose of humor in place of the former’s nerve-wracking suspense. Unfortunately, as director Sam Raimi attempts to rejuvenate his tale in order to keep from merely repeating himself, his...

Paul W.S. Anderson’s early sci-fi horror effort, Event Horizon, is favored by only three-and-a-half critics, including myself (one critic was indifferent, thus I’m going to chalk that one up as a partial win). The film undeniably strikes a cord in its viewers--despite...

Helmed by Jim Minton, Exquisite Copse takes its name literally and twice over: The work is an aggregation of short horror films from an international cast of directors, based on the flash fiction and poetry of genre writer Michael Arnzen, and set to composer Michael...

"Expiration" is by no means a horror film in the fact that it has monsters, serial killers or ghosts in it, matter of fact it's got nothing in it that would make it quality as a Horror or Sci-Fi film. What made this film scary was it took issues that we all as...

Although not technically a horror movie, more of a thriller, "Expecting Mercy" felt more like a Lifetime Network film than it did a real movie. The story is about a young couple that is in love and traveling across the country to get married, their car breaks down and...

Distraught that his penned sweat and blood was decimated with John Boorman’s cinematic abortion, Exorcist II: The Heretic, William Peter Blatty helmed the proper sequel to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist as he not only wrote the novel upon which he based the...

The few critics who bother acknowledging John Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic, the most expensive film produced by Warner Brothers at the time of its release, typically offer only a few scant, yet scathing, words about the production. Indeed, the work does stand to...

Holy shit! Now that was a freaking waste of script and dialogue. Right from the EXORCIST. Almost line for line. Jesus Christ! That was pretty messed. That is what Asylum is really, a copy of the big thing at the time. Look at their back catalogue and see for yourself....

Scott Derrickson’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose is one part William Friedkin’s The Exorcist and two parts Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind. Not only are we given a feature in which, ultimately, religion is put on the stand, but the genesis for such is due to a case of...

From Filmax and producer Julio Fernandes comes a Spanish-made, British-set addition to the minor craze for exorcism movies, initially prompted by the effective THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE and boosted last year by THE LAST EXORCISM, the awesome [REC] 2 and THE RITE....

It's been said by many that this film titled Exorcism is nothing but a rip off of William Friedkin's 1973 film based on the popular William Peter Blatty novel The Exorcist, which to this day many people believe is the most frightening horror film ever made. However I...

Adapted from the same-titled novel by Flemish cult writer Herman Brusselmans, this is an occasionally striking, self-indulgent feature length kick in the nuts for the PC brigade. Shot in grimy locations in trendily washed-out colors, it is deliberately cavalier and...

This month, NoShame Films unleashes a trio of rare, uncut ‘70s poliziotteschi/crime films, and Emergency Squad, one of the three DVDs in this spectacular series, is a particularly exceptional and compelling outing, sporting all of the core genre essentials that the...