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Recent reviews

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  Doctor Blood's Coffin 1961

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Sep 2023

  Before he became a filmmakers who gave the film world high profile films such as IRON EAGLE,THE IPCRESS FILE,and THE ENTITY amid his latter years that were full of various Casper Van Dien and Dolph Lundgren starring Straight-To-DVD actioners,Sidney J. Furie made this Hammer Films style British horror feature that depicts the title doctor(Kieron Moore[CRACK IN THE WORLD,THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS{1962}]) who is obsessed with resurrecting life for the dead via heart transplants as he returns to his home…

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  The Retreat 2021

  ★ Watched 24 Sep 2023

  This dull and sloppy Canadian thriller details how a lesbian couple(Sarah Allen[SECRET WINDOW,STRANGE BUT TRUE],Tommie Amber Pirie[BELOW HER MOUTH,THE AMITYVILLE CURSE)'s wilderness cabin base weekend vacation gets ruined by a duo of homophobic rednecks who delight in tormenting and killing any gay person that shows up at their cabin trap,driving both women to mightily fight back.

  Darkly filmed by director Pat Mills(THE CHRISTMAS SET-UP,DON'T TALK TO IRENE),poorly written by (the film's co-produced) Alyson Richards(THE SUBLET),and blandly acted by the cast,THE RETREAT fully displays itself as the real cinematic LaHooZaHer that it truly is.

Popular reviews

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  It Follows 2014

  ★½ Watched 29 Mar 2015 5

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The Weinstein Brothers score their first nationwide release of a horror film since 2009's Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN 2,and the first nationwide release of a film under their Radius/TWB label,for this film by first time writer/director David Robert Mitchell is yet another overhyped,overrated horror slop(ala HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES,DAWN OF THE DEAD[2004],MARTYRS,HEREDITARY,THE VOID(2016),RAW,SHAUN OF THE DEAD,MAY,REVENGE[2018)],4/5 of the horror/genre films of 2022(a year that is heavily cherished by modern horror fans),and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT[amongst so many]) that I'm so sick…

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  The Cat 1992

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Feb 2018 1

  Japanese genre cinema was an obvious major influence on this wild Chinese science fiction/horror outing that has Waise Lee(A BETTER TOMORROW[1986],BULLET IN THE HEAD) as a successful writer who gets caught up in the antics of a young lady(Gloria Yip[FLYING DAGGER,SAVIOR OF THE SOUL]) and her pet cat that are actually aliens that are out to stop an evil alien entity that has invasion on its mind. A popular title in the 90s video bootleg market that is largely overshadowed(and…