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Rootwood - Movie Review

Details: Published: 25 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Something is seriously off with the forest at the center of this horror flick. Enter here if you dare. You won’t be the same IF you escape the deep shadows and tall, tall trees here ...

Gold Dust - Movie Review

Details: Published: 23 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Desert hi-jinks don’t get any livelier or funnier than they do in Gold Dust, a rich comedy about a rather bizarre set of occurrences happening to one team of treasure hunters in the American Southwest ...

Terror Train: Limited Edition (1980) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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No one screams like Jamie Lee Curtis. No one. Combine those ear-piercing screams with a creepy Groucho Marx mask, a young David Copperfield, a ghostly train ride, and you have sure fire success for a late October night full of terror and mystery. Rising above the typical ...

Harriet - DVD Review

Details: Published: 24 March 2020; Written by Michelle Duy

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There’s a shocking, telling moment late in the movie Harriet (2019). Referring to a group of escaped slaves, the villain Gideon (Joe Elwyn) calls them “three bucks and a female with foal.” Of course, he does much worse throughout the movie. But that ...

Black Christmas (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 March 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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The latest iteration of Bob Clark’s ultra-gory yule tide slasher, Black Christmas, promises a modern take on the cult horror classic that stoked the fears of every sorority girl back in 1974 ...

Universal Horror Collection Volume Four: Night Key (1937), Night Monster (1942), The Climax (1944), House of Horrors (1945) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 19 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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It doesn’t take Night Key very long to kick into high gear. Boris Karloff, starring as an inventor of a bank alarm who gets pissed that he’s not getting the money or the credit for his invention, finds himself in over his head with a group of gangsters who want to get rich quick. With nowhere to turn to ...

Dead By Dawn - Movie Review

Details: Published: 18 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...

Inseminoid (1981) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 16 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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What happens when like-minded British and Hong Kong film producers get together to make a cheapo-depot sex film? They ride the success of Alien, amp up the sex, and make one of the strangest exploitation films of the early 1980s. Inseminoid is a horror film like few others. Thanks to ...

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE BLOOD - New Trailer

Details: Published: 16 March 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Netflix follows its short teaser that debuted earlier this month with the full trailer for the reboot of Benji, the popular Joe Camp written and directed film of the '70s that launched Benji-mania into American consciousness and carved a place for scruffy little puppies into the hearts of ...

Bug (1975) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 14 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Giant-sized cockroaches in the Brady Bunch house?! Yes, please. What other secrets are those unclean Brady’s hiding? With Bug, a film that locks its horrors upon fire-farting cockroaches, we find out! ...