The year is 1889, and we’re in the village of Cryhin Gifford. Three little girls are playing in their nursery at the top floor of the house, when they suddenly notice a sinister presence in the room. Instead of running out in fear while screaming for their parents (as would be a normal reaction), the …
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It’s the fine year of 1925 and the place is a chronic depressive England where it’s always gloomy and misty and extra cozy by the fireplace. Arthur Kidd (played by Harry Potter’s dad, Adrian Rawlings) is a young solicitor in his early 30s. He’s married and has two children who he has to kiss goodbye …
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Waxwork II starts immediately where the first film left us (spoiler alert if you haven’t already seen the first movie!) where Mark and Sarah are escaping the waxwork that’s burning down to the ground. While they board a taxi and get the hell out of there, we see that they’re not the only ones who …
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A woman comes home to find that her husband is talking in his sleep, but soon realizes that something else is talking through him. We’ve just begun our Halloween Marathon (where we update with new reviews daily during October!), but we’re still having the weekly Horror Short Sundays of course. And this time we’re …
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Two college students, Sarah and China, have a strange encounter with an odd gentleman who owns a mysterious wax museum and invites them to have a look at the exhibit. Later, they bring along with them some of their friends: Mark, Gemma, James, and Tony. The museum has a lot of morbid displays, but nothing …
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– What tha FUCK was THAT?? – That’s… kinda hard to explain. Just like the previous one, Phantasm III, also known as Lord of the Dead BooooOOOOYS, picks up right after the previous ended. So no, it wasn’t all a dream, after all. Or maybe a dream within a dream…who the hell knows. Reggie …
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BooooOOOOY and GiiiiIIIIRL ! Almost a decade flew away among the cocaine leftover dust during the 1980s before a sequel was made. In the meantime, Don Coscarelli made the sword & sorcerer flick The Beastmaster (1982) and had no desire to make another horror movie. That was until some producer at Universal Studios finally …
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– I had a compunction to try to do something in the horror genre and I started thinking about how our culture handles death; it’s different than in other societies. We have this central figure of a mortician. He dresses in dark clothing, he lurks behind doors, they do procedures on the bodies we don’t …
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After losing their job, an amusement park mascot actor struggles to cope with reality. It is Horror Short Sunday again, and this time we’re taking a look at the animated horror short Pretty Kitty! The short is a mixed media that was made over the course of a year, by 9 animators. The result …
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Hoping to end her life, a depressed woman offers herself to the monster that roams her neighborhood at night–but her plan backfires when she wakes up the next day doomed to undead immortality. Horror Short Sunday is here again, and this time we’re taking a look at I Could Just Die, and That Would …
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