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The Game Comes Full Circle (well at least six sevenths)
1st March | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
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The biggest, most successful sequential horror franchise of the past 20 years roles on to entry number six. Sequential is an apt term indeed for the SAW franchise. The franchise bares a passing resemblance to slick, high budget, episodical US TV shows like CSI, except of course for the vivid violence and lovingly gratuitous scenes of torture. The SAW franchise's episodical quality is certainly an aesthetic quality that distinguishes... -
Romance can be Deadly
11th February | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
This week the cinema will be full to the brim with those 'nice' Valentines movies, the ones that will come out in white DVD boxes with red titles called something like 'Love is Nice'. Of course there is another way. If you prefer your dates atop the Empire State Building while biplanes whistle through your hair firing machine guns indiscriminately in your general direction, then take a look at Deadly Movies...
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Rob Zombie, Horror Auteur or Hillbilly Skank?
25th January | 7 comments | 1 person likes this
February 1st sees the release of Rob Zombie's 'Halloween 2' on DVD and Blu-ray, and it's safe to say that even for horror's most divisive director this latest film splits opinion as brutally as the violence it portrays. Auteur fetishism is a rather modern symptom of Hollywood, it's always existed to varying degrees but only in the past 30 years or so has the director become such a focal point...
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Remembering Horror’s Super Bowl
18th January | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Back in 2002 horror fans around the world were preparing themselves for a wet dream of Vesuvius proportions. Best of all this euphoric event was going to be a real motion picture, not some fan made Youtube effort. Two of horror's biggest and most fetishised icons were to appear in the same film at the same time for a slasher first. Freddy Krueger of The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise...
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French Zombies, Australian Ghosts, and Ski Lifts
14th January | 5 comments | 2 people like this
As the movie reels closed on the previous decade it's a sad but unavoidable truth that we will look back on it as the ten year remake. Remakes of Asian visceral horror and 80s lowbrow slashers dominated the genre and topped producers' wishlists. They say horror comes in cycles, perhaps more than ever the next big horror cycle is hidden from view in a distant haze. But there are some...
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