Tag Archives: gore

American Psycho

What – was Norman Bates – Japanese?

I read something in a true crime book about how serial killers used to be an upper class phenomenon. Barons and marquis preying on the peasants, on down to Jack the Ripper theories and that sort of thing. And now, supposedly, all our serial killers are from below the poverty line, and they hunt victims almost exclusively from a class above. Continue reading

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The Exorcist

And the top horror film of the year 2000… was made in 1973 Yes, what some believe is the most frightening flick ever made has been re-released with a thundering new remastered soundtrack and a few restored scenes to play … Continue reading

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Color Me Blood Red DVD

Blood for Art’s sake In the prologue to this film, the owner of the Farnsworth Gallery at first admires, then carries a canvas out behind the building to set fire to it. As it burns, the painting bleeds human blood, … Continue reading

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Blood Feast DVD

Gore pioneer starts choppin’ here As they relate on the commentary track, one night Chicago filmmaking partners Herschell Gordon Lewis and Dave Friedman sat in their Wacker Drive office brainstorming. They’d spent the past few winters down in Florida shooting nudie … Continue reading

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Pitch Black

Blacksploitation Circle the wagons – the natives are restless tonight! Up to now, the scriptwriting brothers Ken and Jim Wheat have been known as specialists in belated sequels like The Birds 2, The Stepford Husbands, It Came From Outer Space … Continue reading

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Two Thousand Maniacs DVD

2000 severed thumbs up As Two Thousand Maniacs begins, some tourists and a schoolteacher, motoring south to Atlanta, are detoured to Pleasant Valley, where they find themselves guests of honor at the town’s centennial celebration. Although suspicious as to why … Continue reading

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The Dead Hate the Living DVD

Zombie hate crimes In The Dead Hate the Living, a group of young filmmakers sneaks into an abandoned medical research facility to make a low budget horror feature about a scientist who raises the dead to be his zombie slaves. … Continue reading

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Cannibal! The Musical DVD

Good taste gone bad South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut has been admired and even respected as the first real traditional musical film in years. But it wasn’t Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s first musical, their first controversial project, or … Continue reading

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The Last Broadcast DVD

More terror in the woods Just as Dan Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez were planning their trip into the Maryland woods to film The Blair Witch Project, Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler were editing their own backwoods mockumentary horror story. Comparison of … Continue reading

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Exorcist III DVD

Hell’s legion on disc George C. Scott turns in an excellent performance in The Exorcist III  as police Lt. Kinderman, a man who – despite the domestic comforts of his home life – feels the world outside being torn apart … Continue reading

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