Beyond Darkness (1990)

Beyond Darkness aka La Casa 5 is…uh, wait a minute, hold on…La Casa 5? Huh? You haven’t heard of the legendary Italian La Casa franchise? And you call yourself a horror fan?! Because who would know about this franchise that barely exists.   So, here’s La Casa explained: La Casa is the Italian title for …

The Whisperer in Darkness (2012)

Albert Wilmarth is a folklore lecturer at the Miskatonic University in Arkham. Albert have been receiving letters from a man named Henry Wentworth Akeley, who lives in an isolated farmhouse in Vermont. In the letters, this man claims that he’s got proof that there are creatures surrounding his farm, and they start exchanging letters back …

Vampyr (1932)

Allan Gray is a student of the occult, and we see him arriving at an inn in the village of Courtempierre, France. In his cozy rented room, he is suddenly awakened by a rambling old man entering the place, who ends up leaving a small package on the table with a wrapping paper where “To …

Paganini Horror (1988)

The year was somewhere in the late 1980s where the exciting news had spread in Italy that none other than Klaus Kinski was writing, directing and playing the main role in an upcoming biopic of the legendary violinist Niccolò Paganini. Since Klaus Kinski was still a crowd magnet, director Luigi Cozzi, expected Kinski’s film to …

The Antichrist (1974)

Ippolita is a young woman who has been paraplegic since a car accident when she was 12. The accident killed her mother, and left her broken in more ways than one. The doctors have diagnosed her paralysis as purely psychosomatic due to mental trauma rather than any physical issues. She’s also gotten very reliant on …

Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion (2022)

Three years have gone since the incidents in the first film. And since they lived in a reclusive yet more idyllic area by the woods, they decided it was a good idea to move into a Jakarta apartment building with neighbors up, down, left and right. Because don’t fear thy neighbor. Doesn’t sound like the …

Satan’s Slaves (2017)

We’re in the Indonesian countryside, and the year is 1981. Mawarni, a once famous singer, has fallen ill and she is now bedridden. The royalties from Mawarni’s singing career are long gone as her popularity has faded, along with her health, so the family is also struggling financially. Their four children, 22-year old Rini, 16-year …

SELFIE – Horror Short Film

selfie horror short film

An insecure teenager deletes her social media accounts and learns that what she put online will come back to haunt her.   Our Halloween Marathon is running (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 taking a look at …

The Gate (1987)

The movie opens with the nightmare of Glen, a 12 year old boy. He dreams that his home is abandoned, and he goes out to the backyard to enter his tree-house, where is gets struck by lightning. He wakes to a somewhat uncanny coincidence as he sees that some workers in the backyard have cut …

Braindead (1992)

There’s actually “film experts“ out there that are snobby enough to flat-out refuse to acknowledge Peter Jackson’s horror films pre Lord of the Rings. Well, more carnage goodies for the rest of us.   This unhinged goreshow from New Zealand starts at Skull Island, of all places, shot at the famous Pūtangirua Pinnacles. The year …