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John’s Horror Corner: The Strangeness (1985), a bad tentacle monster movie...
MY CALL: A very, very, very boring tentacle monster movie. MOVIES LIKE The Strangeness: For more tentacle monster movies, please consider The Boogens (1981), The Kindred (1987), Wicked City (1987),...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Creature Below (2016, aka The Dark Below), a...
MY CALL: A perfectly serviceable bad movie that really tries to be good, and fails. Nothing special here. You won’t miss anything if you just move on. (also released as The Dark Below). MOVIES LIKE...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Shape of Water (2017), the romantic, contemporized...
MY CALL: Guillermo del Toro’s heartwarming, Oscar-sweeping film depicting a relationship between a mute woman and a fish man captured in the Amazon. If that sentence doesn’t win you over, I’m not sure...
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John’s Horror Corner: Virus (1999), The Thing (1982) meets The Terminator...
MY CALL: A possessed computer makes robot minions, evil gory zombified cyborgs and a hulking destructive juggernaut to stalk a star-studded cast on a high-tech Russian vessel. Is this movie for you?...
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John’s Horror Corner: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Francis Ford Coppola’s...
MY CALL: This admirable and perhaps unparalleled vampire film brings us both the classic monster and star-crossed lover alike. Iconic horror atmosphere coupled with dark fantasy, romance and a major...
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John’s Horror Corner: Suspiria (1977), Dario Argento’s Italian witch movie...
MY CALL: Dario Argento’s classic witch movie is hardly a witch movie at all… but, wow, the man could cultivate great atmosphere! MORE MOVIES LIKE Suspiria: For more ballerina horror, consider the...
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Bad Movie Tuesday: Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018), adding the giant Hafþór...
MY CALL: Okay, folks. This is basically Kickboxer 6. It’s the first sequel of the reboot, the bad guys keep getting more physically monstrous, and the action scenes erupt over-the-top. You should...
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John’s Horror Corner: Dead Birds (2004), a low budget Civil War period piece...
MY CALL: This oddity stars a lot of before-they-were-stars and aims high with a low budget to deliver a dumb but fun romp full of cheap jump scares. Enjoy. Alabama, 1863—A gang of bank robbers with...
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John’s Horror Corner: Charlie’s Farm (2014), a brutal and basic Australian...
MY CALL: Basically, this is a low budget Australian Leatherface film starring a giant actor who does justice to the monster he’s playing. MORE MOVIES LIKE Charlie’s Farm: This movie most closely...
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John’s Horror Corner: Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh (1991), a...
MY CALL: Raunchy but not sleazy, this horror-comedy B-movie brings some satisfying gore and incredibly non-mainstream themes and humor to the table. MORE MOVIES LIKE Bloodsucking Pharaohs in...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Babysitter (2017), a visually striking...
MY CALL: Along with Happy Death Day (2017), this film is setting the new standard for the horror-comedy. Wonderfully written, acted and shot, filled with great characters, and on top of that it’s both...
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John’s Horror Corner: Alien 2: On Earth (1980), a gory Italian Alien (1979)...
MY CALL: An aimless story in a B-movie populated by insignificant events, the occasional exploding head, and some gory tentacle attacks. MORE MOVIES LIKE Alien 2: On Earth: For more low budget Aliens...
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John’s Horror Corner: Parasite (1982), another wonderfully gory Alien (1979)...
MY CALL: This is exactly what you want out of a B-movie: the plot and acting isn’t too bad (actually, it’s fine), the gore is abundant and solid quality, and the creature effects transcend the low...
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John’s Horror Corner: Demon Wind (1990), a raunchy, cheesy, gory B-movie...
MY CALL: Pretty random, pretty fun. In many respects this is the typical aimless 80s B-movie, but it’s one of the more enjoyable ones and it smacks of Night of the Demons (1988). MORE MOVIES LIKE...
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John’s Horror Corner: Creature (1985; aka Titan Find), another Alien (1979)...
MY CALL: A solidly entertaining B-movie that aims high everywhere except its creature effects. Recommended to bad movie connoisseurs. MORE MOVIES LIKE Creature: For more low budget Alien (1979)...
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John’s Horror Corner: A Cure for Wellness (2016), The Road to Wellville...
MY CALL: Incredibly strange yet surprisingly rather coherent given its moral-testing lunacy and wispily mixed themes, this visually stunning and sanity-challenging film is worth the time of any...
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Bad Movie Tuesday: Shocking Dark (1989; aka Terminator 2, aka Aliennators),...
MY CALL: Definitely one of the weaker Alien/Aliens rip-off films and boasting little in the way of creature effects or gore. You could do a lot better. This is best left to 80s B-movie completists....
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John’s Horror Corner: Star Crystal (1986), E.T. (1982) meets a fun gory...
MY CALL: This feels like two shorter movies back to back—one is a gory Alien (1979) riff, the other is a light-hearted yet gooey play on E.T. (1982). Weird, gory, a bit funny, and surprisingly...
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John’s Horror Corner: Chaw (2009, aka Chawu), a Korean film about a boring...
MY CALL: This film completely failed me on all levels. It was boring, unexciting, terrible effects and CGI, no gore, and the alleged “comedy” was horribly executed. MORE MOVIES LIKE Chaw: For more...
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John’s Horror Corner: Demonoid (1980), a B-movie about a murderous...
MY CALL: Really mistitled, this should be considered a passable B-movie about a murderous crawling hand. That said, this is a serviceable B-movie perhaps worth your time for a single viewing—but...
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