Slaughter
When a film is based on true events you know that filmmakers decided to take the liberty to enhance the story and give it a more entertaining twist. In some cases it works and in others not quite so much. In the case of SLAUGHTER its a toss up while the film does have...
Skinwalkers
The inclusion of the words “Reshoot Crew” during the end credits of a movie will always ring some pretty loud alarm bells. By the time the unfortunate viewer has endured the cinematic Mogadon that is SKINWALKERS, however, the credit wont come as a surprise. The kind...
Skinned Deep
Bad acting, unique characters and character designs, and corny gory greatness are all present in Skinned Deep, the latest mass of low-budget horror to be released under Fangoria’s Gorezone Video label. Skinned Deep takes the tried-and-true Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
Skinned Alive (Eat Your Heart Out)
SKINNED ALIVE is a film that was shot in New York City and was formally titled EAT YOUR HEART OUT. But as always, when you sign your film over to a large distribution company they tend to change the titles of films to make them more appealing to the average movie...
Skin Crawl
Skin Crawl is a film that's right up your ally if your a fan of the television series Dark Shadows. Unfortunately for this film, I could never stand the look of the show, nonetheless the stories that used to bore me so much as child. And they still do. Honestly the...
The Skeleton Key
Meh. That simple, single-syllable word repeated itself at least a hundred times during my viewing of “The Skeleton Key,” the latest in Hollywood’s line of PG-13 “atmosphere-over-gore” horror (or “psychological thriller”) films. “Key” has three good things going for...
The Skeleton Key
If Rob Reiner’s Misery where to have a one-night stand with Iain Softley’s The Wings of a Dove, the coupling would more than likely produce the latter’s own The Skeleton Key. The British director’s gothic thriller is a meditation upon observer expectation and bias...
Skeleton Crew
Mental institutions are inherently creepy (have you seen SESSION 9? Enough said.), but I’d been burned with a good trailer and an interesting premise before by Lightning Media with THE DEVIL’S GROUND. SKELETON CREW is a whole new ballgame, and despite a few glitches,...
Skeeter
Clark Brandon issues a refreshing flashback to yesteryear B-movie goodness with a monster invasion involving giant mosquitoes as they prey upon a town filled with enough local color to suffocate a David Lynch production. Given the over-the-top premise, Skeeter...
Sisters
Brian DePalma’s 1973 movie SISTERS set the trend for the early part of his career, in which he successfully dressed up old Hitchcockian tropes with contemporary stylistic showiness and exploitation movie goodies. Although it is the work of a former short film...
Sisters
Sisters is Brian De Palma’s first in a career of homages to his idol, Alfred Hitchcock. However, though thematically and cinematically similar to the master of suspense, the work exhibits what would be later dubbed as signature De Palma. Perhaps ironic in relation to...
Simple Revenge
Talk about a surprise film! When I first saw the cover I was like: Oh great another film with a great looking girl on the cover that's most likely going to suck. I was wrong. "Simple Revenge" has one hell of a great story with more plot twists and straight up killing....
Simon Says
A film that has some good reviews from some notable sites, but had a negative one from one of my writers kind of left me thinking who was really in the minority here. After SIMON SAYS, right from the get go had a lot of positive things about it. Crispin Glover as the...
Simon Says
A lot of low budget indie American horror films show up on the UK’s “Zone Horror” satellite TV channel (formerly “The Horror Channel”) before their DVD premieres in either the UK or the US. Most of these are bland at best, home movie-level at worst, but occasionally...
Sinful
Sinful is a film that takes an odd approach to how some women who can't conceive, actually go crazy. The director takes an artistic approach here, with a very dark atmosphere and the use of a very smooth yet frightful soundtrack. Sinful is a dark tale, a very dark...
