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John’s Horror Corner: V/H/S/99 (2022), a pleasantly surprising horror-comedy...
MY CALL: The only theme in this anthology is horror comedy, but it does that quite well. I was pleased with the relatively consistent quality of the horror segments and they covered a nice range of...
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John’s Horror Corner: The House by the Cemetery (1981, aka Quella villa...
MY CALL: Right up there with Fulci’s Zombie (1979), all three films in Lucio Fulci’s “Gates of Hell” trilogy (this being one of them) are delightfully gory affairs. A must-see for gorehounds who...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Hills Run Red (2009), a pleasant surprise of a...
MY CALL: The raunchiness and gory feistiness of Wrong Turn 3 (2009) meet the brutal, grimy Leatherface of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) in this unexpectedly pleasant surprise. The writing and...
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John’s Horror Corner: Smile (2022), a very well-made, pleasant surprise rich...
MY CALL: Very well-made, very well-produced, very entertaining, very creepy movie. It wasn’t riveting or wowing. But it is a solid popcorn horror good for jumps, atmosphere, creep factor and gore....
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John’s Horror Corner: The Beyond (1981; aka … E tu vivrai nel terrore!...
MY CALL: This is the second film in Fulci’s Gates of Hell trilogy and a worthy education in early non-Romero zombie horror for any genre film fan. The storytelling is a bit discombobulated, but...
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John’s Horror Corner: Elves (1989), a delightfully bad “holiday horror”...
MY CALL: This was one of the most ridiculous movies I’ve seen in a long time, and I love it for that. The gore and death scenes are poor. But the story is so batshit crazy that the storytelling itself...
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John’s Horror Corner: Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984), a thoughtfully...
MY CALL: This movie had a lot of potential, but somehow dropped the ball on the “horror” in this horror movie. Sorry, but I found it boring. MORE MOVIES LIKE Don’t Open Till Christmas: For more...
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John’s Horror Corner: Christmas Evil (1980; aka, You Better Watch Out), a low...
MY CALL: Certainly very Christmas-y, more so than most Christmas horror. But actually not very horror-y for my taste. Weak kills, weak gore, horror-lite, and feels more like a murderous drama about a...
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John’s Horror Corner: Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984; aka Murderock –...
MY CALL: Almost as much a “dance movie” as it is a giallo-ish crime thriller, this was an enjoyable change of pace after Fulci’s Gates of Hell trilogy. Sure, I love gore whereas this has but some...
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John’s Horror Corner: Eyes of Fire (1983), 18th century frontier dark...
MY CALL: While I must admit, I felt that I had to see an American frontier period horror-dark fantasy movie, I now just as equally wish I had never heard of this awful cinematic miscreation. Hard...
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John’s Horror Corner: Screamtime (1983), an understandably obscure British...
MY CALL: There’s good reason that you likely haven’t heard of this movie and, if you have, you’ve had trouble finding it. It’s… not good. Like, on all levels it’s not good. Weak writing, acting,...
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John’s Horror Corner: Nightmare Cinema (2018), a solid horror anthology worth...
MY CALL: This was good. I’ve encountered plenty of anthologies of short films by inexperienced filmmakers and aggravatingly low budgets Frankensteined together into 90 minutes. At times they can feel...
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John’s Horror Corner: A Wounded Fawn (2022), a weirdly satisfying indie...
MY CALL: Arthouse films are not my jam. But this trippy indie hooked me with a good serial killer vibe and its utility of Greek mythology. Weird and well done. MORE MOVIES LIKE A Wounded Fawn: Looking...
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John’s Horror Corner: Terrifier 2 (2022), the brutally mean-spirited evil...
MY CALL: After watching this you’ll feel like you need a bath and a confession booth. Top choice for fans of brutal, goretastic and mean-spirited horror and for anyone who claims they “can’t be...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Convent (2000), a poor man’s Night of the Demons...
MY CALL: This is bad. Really bad. Though, often laughably bad. I’d call this an awful, very cheap reimagining of Night of the Demons 2. MORE MOVIES LIKE The Convent: For pretty bad movies that are...
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John’s Horror Corner: Dead Space (1991), yet another silly Alien/s rip-off…...
MY CALL: There are a lot of video-era Alien rip-offs out there… and this is among the more entertaining and at least moderately budgeted among them. We also have a decent cast and a lot of screen time...
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John’s Horror Corner: Lair (2022), Neil Marshall’s latest and quite...
MY CALL: Eh, it’s a thing to watch with decent effects and gore and some passable monster action. But ask yourself how excited you’d be to see it if a no-name filmmaker was behind it. Because that’s...
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John’s Horror Corner: Monstrous (2022), a “family therapy” horror movie for...
MY CALL: Just okay. The monster is “meh”; the story doesn’t build to anything worthy; the film is decently made; and it’s not scary. I didn’t like it. I guess I didn’t hate it. So I’m only...
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John’s Horror Corner: The Hatred (2017), a mediocre, horror-LITE “haunted...
MY CALL: So yeah, this is mediocre PG-13 horror—(I know it’s actually somehow rated R). I’d recommend it to early teens who scare easily. No one else. Really. It’s that mediocre. MORE MOVIES LIKE The...
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John’s Horror Corner: Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell (1995; aka Japanese...
MY CALL: Fans of ridonkulous, low budget gorefests, just stop what you’re doing and REJOICE for this B-movie excellence! Here is your buffet of chunky macabre nonsense. You’ll suffer 20 front-loaded...
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