HELL HOUSE LLC **** USA 2015 Dir: Stephen Cognetti. 93 mins A genuinely scary found footage horror movie employing the usual array of perspectives (TV news broadcasts, documentary-style talking heads, YouTube videos) to convey the tragedy that befell a Halloween tour at New York’s most notorious haunted hotel. A…
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HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES **** USA 2003 Dir: Rob Zombie. 88 mins Cut by the MPAA and dropped by Universal, Zombie’s feature debut was completed in 2000 but didn’t emerge until 2003 when, pre-empting the post-SAW wave of nihilistic American horror, it was joined by a bunch of genre…
Killer Raccoons! 2! is the sequel everyone should fear. Filmed ten years after the original, director Travis Irvine (“Hail Yourself, America”) describes this title as “the best Christmas in July movie of all time.” Already released on Digital platforms, Killer Raccoons! 2! is one part Sharknado, one part Airplane! and…
World Premiere: In Darkness I Wait Chapter 3 of The Pale-Faced Lady Saga In Darkness I Wait, chapter 3 of The Pale-Faced Lady Saga makes it’s world premiere debut on September 24, 2020. “No more sadness. No more loneliness. I’ll take it all away. Let me in, but suffer endlessly”…
THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT **** USA 2018 Dir: Johannes Roberts. 85 mins This long-gestating sequel, although boasting the same “based on true events” tag, shuns the grimness and slow-burn terror of its predecessor in favour of briskly paced 80s slasher-style cat-and-mouse thrills. After a nicely creepy stranger-in-bed pre-titles frisson…