Tag: Horror

Movie Review: Home Sweet Home

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IMDB, Home Sweet Home“Home Sweet Home” on IMDB

Horror/Thriller, 80 Minutes, 2013

As we watch a mute, faceless killer explore their house, we learn from answering machine messages that they have recently moved out of the city and into this large country house. The killer then methodically prepares the house – sealing all escape routes – and himself for their arrival.

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Movie Review: The Jones

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IMDB-The-Jones1Zombie alert!

Force of Nature Films has finished the second segment of their horror anthology, “The Forces of Horror Anthology Series Volume I”. I reviewed the first segment, “Revelations“, here, but this one is a Zombie story. It belongs on our sister site, MoreBrains.com!

See the review (and watch the full movie) of “The Jones”!

Movie Review: Blood River

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IMDB, Blood River“Blood River” on IMDB

Horror/Thriller, 104 Minutes, 2009

This is one of those frustrating films that gets almost everything almost right. It has an interesting premise and a decent execution, but enough flaws to drag it down.

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Movie Review: The Whole Damn Poltergeist Franchise

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“Poltergeist” on IMDB (Horror, 114 Minutes, 1982)
“Poltergeist III” on IMDB (Horror, 98 Minutes, 1988)

I was 11 years old in 1982 when “Poltergeist” came out. Not only does that make me very old now, but it also means that that the MPAA hadn’t gone quite as monkey-slapping-crazy as they are now and gave this movie a PG rating. Tobe Hooper [IMDB] and Stephen Spielberg [IMDB] could have easily gone for a hard “R” (studios still hadn’t decided to be horribly afraid of it). Instead they tossed out one of the hands-down scariest experiences of my childhood and still brought it in with a PG.

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Movie Preview: Chill

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“Chill” on IMDB IMDB, Chill

Horror/Thriller, 114 Minutes, 2013

[Disclosure: I previewed an online, pre-release screener of this at the request of the filmmakers. The film was recently picked up for distribution, something you can read more about on their Facebook page. The version reviewed may be different slightly from the release.]

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