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Friday, November 25, 2016

The Invisible Man (1933) is truly magnificent.

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I love watching the classic Universal horror movies. I'm ashamed to admit I didn't see all of them until recently but there is som...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Review: Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

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That was a bit weird. I expected as much but the sexual stuff is definitely odd. Of course, when you see a lot of Japanese films particula...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Review: Shin Godzilla / Godzilla Resurgence (2016)

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I just got to see this in Singapore (luckily, English is one of the four official languages here so it had English subtitles), and I was b...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Review: Men in Suits (2012)

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This is a fantastic documentary about a little-known and underappreciated aspect of practical effects: suit performers aka the poor bastar...
Saturday, July 2, 2016

Abundance of Riches

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We all mourn the loss of video stores (and their badass cover art), but the truth is it has never been easier to watch films on so many pl...
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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Review: It Follows (2014)

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I was blown away by this one. Truly terrifying even (or especially) in its daytime scenes. It's really deeply unnerving at times. Basi...
Monday, May 30, 2016

The Uninvited (1944) is still a classic.

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It has been a long time since I first saw this, but I was so glad it holds up. Sure, it isn't really scary, but I'm very jaded, an...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Review: He Never Died (2015)

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I'm a big fan of Henry Rollins ever since I saw him in Wrong Turn 2 so when I saw he was headlining this film, I had to check it out,...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Bone Tomahawk (2015) brings the goods.

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If you're not a fan of Kurt Russell, I really don't know what to say to you. He was reason alone for me to see this movie. Add to ...
Friday, November 6, 2015

I still love Them (1954).

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There are so many reasons to watch old, black-and-white classics. You get a peek into another time period, and as much as I like reading a...
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Friday, October 9, 2015

Why I Hate Found Footage

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I'll preface this by noting there are some good found footage movies ( Cloverfield , The Blair Witch Project , Paranormal Activity , e...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Review: The Stuff (1985)

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I never saw this back in the day so it was nice to find a good '80s flick I missed. The satire reminded me a lot of RoboCop , and the ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Memories of Murder (2003) is deeply unsettling and haunting.

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How can you not love Korean cinema with films like  I Saw the Devil , Oldboy , The Host , The Man from Nowhere , A Tale of Two Sisters , A...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Review: Castle Freak (1995)

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I'm a huge fan of Stuart Gordon ( Robot Jox ! From Beyond ! Re-Animator !) so when I realized I had missed a couple of items in his fi...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The Best Horror is Indie

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I don't know why anyone would be surprised by this when Hollywood only churns out soulless remakes, reboots, and sequels, but the best h...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Review: Crawl or Die (2014)

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When I heard about this indie, I had no idea how they were going to stretch the tunnel scene from Aliens into a feature-length film witho...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Harbinger Down Premiere

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I was extremely excited for this new practical-FX horror film (seriously, we need more good old-fashioned REAL effects!), and I had never ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Review: The Hidden (1987)

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This one was pretty disappointing. I saw the poster as a kid but never got around to watching it. Someone online mentioned it had some pre...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Strangely obsessed with Split Second's killer.

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I must be the only dumb nut who cares about this, but I can't help trying to figure out just what the fuck is going on with the heavy ...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

Dead Birds deserves some more love.

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A victim of some undercooked CGI but overflowing with a foreboding atmosphere and a very unique setup, I can't help praising this cree...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The Raid 2 and Under the Skin are tied for my favorites of the year. What an amazing year.

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I can't really pick between them, and they're so insanely different yet both are masterpieces in my opinion. I loved The Raid , bu...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

The Human Race is one of the best indie horror films I've seen.

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True, it does have some CG blood, but it's extremely original, full of surprises, and completely engrossing from start to finish. I re...
Saturday, October 11, 2014

Rewatching Killer Klowns

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Since it's the greatest month of the year, what better way to celebrate than forcing your Chinese girlfriend to sit through Killer Klo...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

Damn I love Starship Troopers!

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Paul Verhoeven was really on a roll there for a while: RoboCop , Total Recall  (fuck that remake! in fact, fuck all remakes! well, not The...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

The Blob (1988) shares a lot of similarities with John Carpenter's The Thing (1982).

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Obviously, they're both remakes and quite dark, gory ones at that (long live the '80s!), but I forgot the extremely gruesome Thing...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Hot Girl of Horror #30: Yvonne Strahovski

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I first saw her on Dexter ... if only the ending to that show wasn't so terrible. I did actually like her character though. She was ...
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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Slasher Movies: Dead or Alive?

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I'll admit it: I'm not the biggest fan of the slasher sub-genre. There are some classics, of course, that I love like Psycho II (...
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Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, and FX Artist. I love horror movies and practical FX. Favorites include: Aliens, Scanners, Godzilla 1984, Seven, The Exorcist, John Carpenter's The Thing, RoboCop, Edward Scissorhands, David Cronenberg's The Fly, Oldboy, Unforgiven, Ninja Scroll, etc.
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