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The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Somewhat dismissed as a weak entry in the Hammer canon of horror and monster movies, including by AllMovie as the worst of the studio’s Frankenstein strand, The Evil of Frankenstein, the 1964 continuation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, actually isn’t bad at all, really. It stars Peter Cushing as Dr Frankenstein, this time assisted by…
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
“There’s nothing wrong with Ellen. It’s just that she loves too much.” Oh, there’s something wrong with Ellen, all right. Possibly the first and probably the best of the “psycho girlfriend” genre in cinema, made famous by Glenn Close’s and Michael Douglas’ sleazy Fatal Attraction (1987) – and Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut Play Misty for Me…
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The Dead Don’t Hurt (2024)
I just saw The Dead Don’t Hurt, a western written, directed, composed by, and starring Viggo Mortensen, and it was the dullest, most poorly constructed piece of loose grouting that I’ve seen in a cinema for… a while. 0/4. I rarely give a film a zero score because my rule normally is that if I…
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
I just saw Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and it was good. It’s certainly better than any of the recent Star Wars “sagas”. A prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, it tells the story of that film’s female lead, Furiosa, who in this one begins as a little girl in the Green Place of…
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Motel Hell (1980)
All the way back in 1980, over 15 years before Scream (1996), slasher films were still being parodied. Back then, movies like Motel Hell were referred to as “sleazoids” and “geek shows” by unimpressed critics including Roger Ebert, who nonetheless gave this film a rare-for-the-genre 3/4 for bringing laughter to the formula. A sun-scorched and…
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
So I just saw Da Strange Peeps: Chatper Wun, and surprise surprise, it was a colossal mound of turd. Full disclosure: I’m not really the person to review this movie because I hate the Strangers franchise and concept. The first film, written and directed by then-newbie Bryan Bertino in 2008, was in his words loosely…
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Dracula AD 1972 (1972)
Dracula AD 1972 is one of the not fondly remembered Hammer films to star Christopher Lee as the eternal bloodsucker, the penultimate entry before The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) finally stuck a stake in the franchise’s heart. When AD came out it was widely panned and it seems to have retained its dire reception…
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The Baby (1973)
One of the… stranger horror films of the 1970s, director Ted Post’s The Baby was recently reviewed on YouTube channel RedLetterMedia’s “Best of the Worst” strand and described as one of the best that they’ve seen on that show. It’s certainly something. The plot sees Mrs Wadsworth (Ruth Roman) meet social worker Ann Gentry (Anjanette…
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
I just saw Love Lies Bleeding and it was really good. A lesbian romance crossed with a crime drama and set in the 1980s, it stars Kristen Stewart as a mulleted gym clerk, Lou, whose father, Lou Sr (Ed Harris), is a dangerous criminal in the Nevada desert. One day a young woman called Jackie…
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Immaculate (2024)
You’d be forgiven for thinking that we’re in a glut of the sub-genre that is Catholic horror movies, after last year’s The Nun II (2023), the upcoming First Omen (2024), and now Immaculate, directed by Michael Mohan and written by Andrew Lobel. How about, for once, a horror movie where a couple of atheists sit…
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