Chocolate

Chocolate

Mick Garris is known by many as the director whom Stephen King entrusts all of his book to film adaptations with. Chocolate, although not a Stephen King story, is Micks entry into the Master of Horror Episodes, He is also the man who came up with the Masters of Horror...

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Cheerleader Autopsy

Cheerleader Autopsy

Dir: Stu Dodge Sub Rosa Studios Synopsis- A group of cheerleaders are on their way to the big competition when a freak accident takes their lives in a tremendous horrendous fashion. That’s the whole movie, but when they are transferred to the local Morticians all hell...

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The Christmas Season Massacre

The Christmas Season Massacre

The Christmas Season Massacre Dir: Jeremy Wallace Sub Rosa Studios This is a type of movie you’d have to have fun with. Christmas Season Massacre, can’t get anymore cliché than that eh! It leans itself on referential displays of homage. But a blast at that also. The...

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Child’s Play 3

Child’s Play 3

Director Jack Bender’s third installment in the Child’s Play series is a lukewarm production at best as he compromises the effectiveness of his predecessors, making a blatant, clichéd teen slasher targeted specifically at adolescents. However, by setting the film in...

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Child’s Play 2

Child’s Play 2

Though director John Lafia, cowriter of the original Child’s Play script, attempts to maintain the intensity of the film’s predecessor, Child’s Play 2 is marred by repetition, a gross of cinematic oversights, and the director’s preoccupation with his antagonist as he...

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Child’s Play

Child’s Play

Director Tom Holland single-handedly rejuvenated the vampire genre with Fright Night before presenting one of the most iconographic figures of modern horror with screenwriter Don Mancini’s demonic Pinocchio, Chucky. Well-made in most every respect, the threat of a...

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Unrest

Unrest

Tagline: The cost of medical school may be your life. What Eli Roth has done with Slovakian Hostels, Jason Todd Ipson has done for Medical School. Unrest opens with a provocatively gore-infused reality of Gross Anatomy. A bit too much for the queasy at heart and...

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Untraceable

Untraceable

Three credited writers have failed to make UNTRACEABLE anything more than an efficient, workmanlike thriller heavily indebted to the major serial killer movies of the past two decades. There’s the feisty yet emotionally vulnerable FBI female protagonist a la Clarice...

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Unstoppable

Unstoppable

In 2001 an unmanned train began a 66 mile journey though northwest Ohio with no one at the controls. This was all due to the engineer’s error of leaving the train to switch the track and not setting the controls properly. This true event was the basis for the story of...

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The Uninvited

The Uninvited

Most people don't really know that THE UNINVITED is a remake of a well known Korean horror film called A TALE OF TWO SISTERS. Most hardcore horror fans know this, but the average person who saw this film in theaters probably had no clue. Cinematically A TALE OF TWO...

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The Uninvited

The Uninvited

So, a few weeks ago, I was getting confused. Right around the same time, two horror films were making the rounds—THE UNBORN and THE UNINVITED. I’ve seen them both now, and I can definitely tell them apart; neither film is spectacular, or really even very memorable,...

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Unholy

Unholy

So what if an urban legend told to keep kids out of the woods at night was actually true and people within the town all knew about it. Covering up what is one big giant conspiracy to hide a secret government experiment that was taken from the Nazi regime as a...

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Unearthed

Unearthed

Matthew Leutwyler, the writer and director of the splendid indie DEAD AND BREAKFAST follows it with an old-school monster-on-the-loose-in-a-desert-town 50’s-influenced creature feature, released as part of After Dark’s 2007 8 Films to Die For Horror fest. Its first...

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