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...

Unleashed from prison after 40 years, Coffin Joe (you know, the guy with talons, long black coat and permanent scowl, played with hammy relish by director Jose Mojica Marins) and his hunchback assistant resume their life-long mission to obtain immortality by finding...

Before Poltergeist or Ghostbusters, director Sidney Furie presented us with a tale of graphically-brutal horror in the form of a supernatural antagonist in The Entity. During a time when the genre was laden with slasher films, Furie skirted the line between a ghost...

Recently screened as part of the Cambridge Film Festival in England, END OF THE LINE is writer-director Maurice Devereaux’s first film since 2001’s $LASHER$, a technically ambitious satire of both reality TV and slasher flicks. This movie has some questionable...

Ellory Elkayem’s feature-length debut, Eight Legged Freaks (ELF), attempts to take producer Roland Emmerich’s love for the gigantic and create a parody of 1950’s monster invasion flicks. What I gathered from the movie is that the filmmakers had perhaps too much fun...

There are strong echoes of both FALLING DOWN and AFTER HOURS in Stuart Gordon’s latest genre-bending movie. It’s a riveting depiction of the escalating horrors faced by a mild mannered schmuck / long-term doormat as he finds himself in way over his head, out of cash...

"The Edge of Reality" is a set of three short horror films (Ala: Creepshow) made low budget style. Released by Brimstone Productions (site link above), this film follows the tradition of last years film, Monsterdotcom which I extremely enjoyed. However this is not as...