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Details: Published: 07 February 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Four films in, I think it is safe to say that Honey Island Swamp is getting crowded. Writer/Director Adam Green’s Hatchet series just crash-landed (and I mean that both literally and figuratively). Hitting its stride in the second and third installment, Victor Crowley, an unneeded ...

Details: Published: 05 February 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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This Italian-Spanish co-production is a shoddy horror film. Know that first. Panic is; however, quite interesting in its own way, weaving a tale about scientists who create something they cannot even hope to control through failed bacteria experiments, as it has more ...

Details: Published: 04 February 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Mutant cats, sabertooth rats, and gold lamé outfits! Nothing good can ever come from an evil that’s been buried for over 2000 years. That, my friends, is something that you can take to the bank. But what if that ancient horror found its way into a Blaxploitation martial arts flick?...

Details: Published: 04 February 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Always pay your cab drivers, kids. That’s one lesson to take from watching Code Red’s Blu-ray release of The Apartment on the 13th Floor, a psychological horror film about a slaughterhouse worker who loses his shit one night and just snaps. Eventually, he finds it ...

Details: Published: 03 February 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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She’s smart. She’s sexy. She’s new in town and she’s all sorts of sweet sixteen. She also likes making it with boys on sacred Native American burial grounds in the desert. What a way to get your rocks off, honey! The bad thing for the boys, though, is that they have a ...

Details: Published: 02 February 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Anarchy and hedonism! The Romantic writers, according to this fictionalized account of the creation of Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidari's The Vampyre, were a bunch of cock-gobbling druggies. This is probably true. And, as the sex is as rampant as the wild visual ...

Details: Published: 31 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Class of 1999 is, of course, the film that reveals the truth behind the magic of Pam Grier's glorious breasts. The scene, happening in a school hallway after she takes down two gang leaders on their motorbikes with one swift motion, is both awe inspiring and cringeworthy ...

Details: Published: 30 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Disfigurement! Death! Dastardly charges of electricity! So this is why the lights went out last night, by golly! This is why scientists – no matter how large or small their egos are – should NEVER experiment on themselves. ...

Details: Published: 29 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Being in the wrong place at the wrong time just might save your life. Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy) has an axe to grind. If he has to do it against the skulls of the two bikers who kick dust and sand up into his makeshift tent while he sleeps ...

Details: Published: 28 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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All we wanted was a bigger and healthier tomato, what we got was a ripe parody that paved the way for such comedy classics like Airplane! and all the other beloved and relatively tasteless gag-filled comedies that populated the scene at the time of its release ...