[6] A passenger plane crashes after a close encounter with a UFO. The survivors are left in a remote desert to defend themselves against a blob-like alien that creates a vaginal slit in its victims’ foreheads before crawling inside their brains, commandeering their bodies, and turning them into blood-sucking vampires. Needless to say, this film is Japanese. Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell is gitchy-cool for …
[7] Peter Lorre stars as a doctor so obsessed with an actress (Frances Drake), that after a train wreck destroys her husband’s hands, Lorre offers to perform a transplant. Problem is, the new hands once belonged to a murderer, and old habits die hard… even for disembodied hands. Mad Love benefits from Lorre’s creepy performance and many exotic settings, including recreations of a famous Guignol …
[3] One of the now-many thuds on M. Night Shyamalan’s fall from Hollywood grace was this apocalyptic tale of (drum roll) plants exacting revenge on humankind… because they’re mad… or something. It’s hard to believe that it never occurred to Night or Twentieth Century Fox that this would ultimately result in a movie where people do nothing but run from wind machines. Unfortunately, the core …
[7] Barbara Hershey plays a single mother who is repeatedly sexually assaulted by an invisible force. I was impressed with how brutal and explicit the attacks are, right down to some creepy special effects that simulate the squeezing of Hershey’s breasts by unseen hands. Though the rapes are supernatural, they’re among the most terrifying I’ve seen on film, due largely to Hershey’s fearless performance. The …
[8] Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) serves up an old-fashioned gothic romance the likes of which we haven’t seen on the big screen since Roger Corman last dabbled with tales from Edgar Allen Poe. Heavily inspired by the Bronte sisters and Hitchcock’s Rebecca, Crimson Peak is the story of Edith, a young turn-of-the-century American woman (Mia Wasikowska) wooed into the dangerous embrace of …
[7] When a high school class boards a plane for a field trip to Paris, one of the students (Devon Sawa) has a premonition that the plane will explode. He freaks out and unboards, bringing a few others with him (including Seann William Scott and Dawson’s Creek costar Kerr Smith), and sure enough — boom! But the kids find out that fate doesn’t like to …
[6] A scientist sends a man with dangerous telepathic powers on a mission to destroy a renegade adversary with similar powers. David Cronenberg (Videodrome, The Dead Zone) wrote and directed Scanners, so you know it’s sure to be a bit slow-paced and sublimely melancholy, but with a couple moments of unforgettable gore. Here the big visceral accent comes about fifteen minutes in, when the bad …
[4] Alex Essoe stars as a young woman who’ll do anything to become a successful actress. When a mysterious Hollywood secret society ‘auditions’ her and offers her everything she’s ever wanted, she stops at nothing and sacrifices everything for eternal fame. Essoe does a good job and there are some nifty makeup effects in the later half of the film, but I really disliked Essoe’s …
[6] Writer/director David Robert Mitchell serves up a relatively fresh, original low-budget indie horror film that will tickle many horror fans’ nostalgia bones. The film is basically about a killer STD… sorta. If you have sex with the wrong person, you catch the fancy of some mysterious, invisible evil presence that will slowly stalk you and kill you. That is, unless you have sex with …
[10] I’ll come right out with it: The Witch is my favorite horror film of the last ten years. Newcomer writer/director Robert Eggers serves up a masterfully creepy tale that’s equal parts psychological and atmospheric, elegant and restrained, but not without some visceral imagery that will haunt you for years to come. The story centers around a New England family circa the 1630s. Having just …
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