OK, by rights this is a ridiculous idea that should have me turning off my TV. But I’m the curious sort, and I do like anything non-Hollywood. The Human Centipede (First Sequence, no less!) is from the Netherlands. But, the main character is German. The two girls are American. And the other guy is...
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I remember seeing this waaaay back when it appeared on (VHS) video in the late eighties (early nineties) and was eager to see how it stood up twenty-odd years after its release. And it still kinda works. The plot is basic, to say the least, but sufficient. A killer cop is roaming the streets...
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For those who aren’t familiar with the Solomon Kane legend, allow me to enlighten you, albeit super briefly. Solomon Kane was a character created by a master of the pulp-era fiction Robert Howard, who is the same man responsible for Conan The Barbarian. Solomon is an adventurer in Puritan times (16th and 17th century)...
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The oringinal A Nightmare on Elm Street has a rabid fan-base. They’re highly protective of their slasher and treat Robert Englund as God-like (and rightly so). Thus, doing a remake of the original was always going to provoke a negative reaction, but to not case Mr. Englund? Then… then they changed the look of Freddy’s...
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Trashy movies were on the agenda for me this weekend, but I kept getting sucked into actual quality films like this 2007 Korean offering from the Jung brothers. Told out of chronological order by a possibly unreliable and definitely mysterious narrator, Epitaph is a cleverly woven anthology of three terrifying love stories. There’s some good...
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