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John’s Horror Corner: Beyond Dream’s Door (1989), a lame 80s horror movie...
MY CALL: Overall this was really boring despite some worthy lower budget gore efforts. I was never more than momentarily amused by any scene in this entire movie. This is a hard pass, folks. MORE...
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Bad Movie Tuesday: Winterbeast (1986 or 1992, who knows?), a wacktastic, very...
MY CALL: If you love really bad b-movies with stop-motion monsters, then this nonsense is for you! MORE MOVIES LIKE Winterbeast: The Alien Factor (1978) feels similarly bad and diverse in its...
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John’s Horror Corner: Cemetery Man (1994; aka Dellamorte Dellamore), a zany...
MY CALL: This film is a cult classic that plays out well and even yields an earned and satisfying ending. Even though the comedy is overt, it is very dark. I enjoy it still. MORE MOVIES LIKE...
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John’s Horror Corner: Psycho Goreman (2020), a zany, gory, kinda cutesy...
MY CALL: This movie has its “gore-slathered in chunky clumps of gross” moments. But I often felt the “kid stuff” and humor outweighed the violence and gore, perhaps mildly to its detriment. But it’s...
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John’s Horror Corner: Gaia (2021), a pretty weird, mildly trippy South...
MY CALL: A weird film crossing earthly mysticism with infection tropes, dogmatic fanaticism, and adversarial fungal organisms. Very cool ideas and visuals accompany these themes, but it wasn’t nearly...
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John’s Horror Corner: Demonic (2021), Neill Blomkamp’s new VR-based horror is...
MY CALL: Not to be confused with the James Wan-produced Demonic (2015), which was also a big miss with a major name in horror attached to it. This film is one of the least interesting virtual...
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Bad Movie Tuesday: Fatal Exam (1988, or 1990), a lame 80s horror slasher...
MY CALL: First off, please do not confuse this with the cult classic Final Exam (1981). This movie is boring, horrible and… boring. I won’t get these two hours of my life back. Don’t watch it. I hated...
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John’s Horror Corner: No Reason (2010), a VERY gory, VERY graphic, VERY...
MY CALL: This movie really wants to be Lars von Trier meets Hellraiser (1987) and Martyrs (2008). But conceptually, it’s just shooting blanks. That said, I’d only recommend this to those who enjoy...
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John’s Horror Corner: I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990), a zany British...
MY CALL: This movie is a weird, very cheesy little thing. MORE MOVIES LIKE I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle: For more horror odd horror-comedy, consider that this is somewhat closer to the likes of...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Swarm (2020; aka, La Nuee), a mostly subtle French...
MY CALL: Not to be confused with the killer bee movie The Swarm (1978), this movie isn’t what you think it is. And it’s probably not the horror movie you’re looking for. But what it is, is something I...
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John’s Horror Corner: Evolution (2015), an enigmatic, slow burn, mix of...
MY CALL: This is the kind of film where I struggle to even classify what it is. It’s a slow burn medical thriller, it’s sort of a body horror movie, it’s got some intriguing cultish folk horror vibes…...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), an occult adventure...
MY CALL: This was way less exciting than I recall, but every bit as interesting as I remembered; more like an occult adventure movie like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). Cool movie...
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John’s Horror Corner: Malignant (2021), Bughuul meets John Wick in James...
MY CALL: This movie begins somewhat confusingly, but rounds its way to a satisfyingly wacky horror-action flick that is way more crazy than expected. MORE MOVIES LIKE Malignant: It’s truly difficult...
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John’s Horror Corner: Scanners (1981), Cronenberg’s plotty approach to mean...
MY CALL: This film boils down to two truly epic, memorable, gory scenes bookending an otherwise unhorror-ish but more thriller-ish cops’n’crime shoot’em up style movie. Clearly a classic, and it...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Lair of the White Worm (1988), this Hugh Grant...
MY CALL: This preposterous, somewhat exploitative movie is highly enjoyable for its hokiness and ambition. So if you’re in the mood for Hugh Grant, a lot of ridiculous phallic imagery and a nudie...
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John’s Horror Corner: Bad Moon (1996), a werewolf movie featuring one of the...
MY CALL: If you had a made for TV werewolf movie (like rated PG), then added some brutal attack/death scenes, great gore and monster effects, and a curiously long, rather graphic and very out of...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Horror Show (1989; aka House 3), this mock-NOES...
MY CALL: This wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected. In fact, it wasn’t bad at all! Very enjoyable with solid special effects and a decently made Freddy-esque 80s boogeyman movie. MORE MOVIES LIKE The...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Last Shark (1981; aka L’ultimo squalo, The Last...
MY CALL: This B-movie Jaws (1975) rip-off is 60 minutes of general boredom followed by 20 minutes of decent bad movie fun. But if you’re looking for a fun bad movie in general, this is a decent sleepy...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Granny (1995), ugly crusty-faced demons and nice...
MY CALL: This is middle-of-the-road schlocky fun. Boobs, blood, demon faces and weak death scenes. You could do worse. But you could do way better. MORE MOVIES LIKE The Granny: Well, for more...
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John’s Horror Corner: Necromentia (2009), basically a D-budget Saw (2004)...
NOT SAFE FOR WORKNSFWNOT SAFE FOR WORK MY CALL: Really cool ideas and monster effects don’t save this pseudo-anthology from the depths of generally weak filmmaking and writing. As impressed as I was...
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