Category: Horror Movie Reviews
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Berberian Sound Studio Review
Year: 2012 Director: Peter Strickland Synopsis: A sound engineer’s work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art. My quick Review: If you are a horror movies fan or would like to know more about what’s going on behing the scenes of a movie, you should definitively watch Berberian Sound Studio.…
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Heaven and Hell Review
Original Title: Wong Jorn Pid Year: 2012 Director: Yuthlert Sippapak Synopsis: Three short horror tales using images from surveillance cameras and focusing on ghosts.. My Short Review: Heaven and Hell is another Thai Horror Anthology following the steps and the codes (scary ghosts + some light humor) of other anthology movies such as 4Bia or 3am. Unfortunately,…
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The Colony Review
Year: 2013 Directed by: Jeff Renfroe Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, Kevin Zegers Neoli’s Review: I’m sure The Colony, the zombie horror film starring Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton, is nice and all, but the thing is I saw the trailer to World War Z weeks earlier (very nice), which clearly trumps whatever icy post-apocalyptic…
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The Gerber Syndrome Review
Year: 2011 Director: Maxi Dejoie Synopsis: A TV crew is making a documentary about The Gerber’s Syndrome, a contagious viral disease that is extremely contagious, fast spreading, and deadly. My Short Review: Many people are fed up with the found footage genre and rightly so if they watch movies like The Gerber Syndrome. Unfortunately, it’s not so…
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The Facility Review
Year: 2012 Director: Ian Clark Synopsis: Eight volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong. My Quick Review: I’m a big fan of horror movies using a group of people who do not know each other and putting them in a remote, often closed, location. Movies like The Thing, Cube,…
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The Snowtown Murders Review
Year: 2011 Director: Justin Kurzel Synopsis: Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother’s new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder. My Short Review: For his first movie, director Justin Kurzel has decided to tell the story of Australia’s…
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Dead Mine Review
Year: 2012 Director: Steven Sheil Synopsis: (from IMDb) The legend of Yamashita’s Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle. Once they are trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker, they face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in. My Short Review: What…
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Cargo Short Review
Year: 2013 Director: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke Synopsis (official): Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter. My Short Review: Cargo was a finalist in Tropfest Australia 2013, a short movie festival and had a very high rating…