It’s been such a cliché for decades that the recent comedy “Tucker and Dale vs Evil” may have parodied it (however unlikely) to its well-deserved death. At least the quartet of UK collegians of “Spiderhole” has done something different: Rather than go away for the weekend, these students leave their dreary dorms behind for good. […]
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Night Train Murders
It’s not, but the comparison to Wes Craven’s 1972 debut is hardly unwarranted, because director Aldo Lado’s Italian film is practically a remake, right down to the lead ugly-mugged thug, but with an added mode of transportation. Heck, a poster in the disc’s advertising gallery even reveals an alternate title of “Last House — Part […]
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Cold Sweat
One drop of the stuff and your head resembles a watermelon dropped from a skyscraper. Certainly, this is among the most original concepts in modern horror, and indie director/co-writer Adrián Garcia Bogliano does not let the audience down. His pair of inglorious bastards — the mastermind having only one eye and requiring a walker — […]
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Shark Night
If that’s your thing — and as a member of the “Jaws” generation, I have no shame in admitting it is — you’re going to have a blast. Where else will you see underwear-clad “American Idol” alum Katharine McPhee getting ripped to shreds? Now on Blu-ray minus the 3-D effects its slim audience had in […]
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Gurozuka
While 2005’s “Gurozuka” isn’t a carbon copy of “The Ring,” I doubt there will be many American reviews that fail to drop the name. Uh, including this one. The females-only film follows two high school groups — the do-gooder, two-member Movie Club and the snooty, three-member Drama Club — as they venture deep into the […]
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Gurozuka
While 2005’s “Gurozuka” isn’t a carbon copy of “The Ring,” I doubt there will be many American reviews that fail to drop the name. Uh, including this one. The females-only film follows two high school groups — the do-gooder, two-member Movie Club and the snooty, three-member Drama Club — as they venture deep into the […]
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Bedlam: Season One
The renovation is the project of Warren Bettany (Hugo Speer, “The Full Monty”), whose lovely daughter, Kate (Charlotte Salt, TV’s “The Tudors”), serves as landlady. It’s a family affair, because the building has been in the family for 300 years. When Kate is almost drowned by an evil spirit, her ghost-busting cousin, Jed (Theo James, […]
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Bedlam: Season One
The renovation is the project of Warren Bettany (Hugo Speer, “The Full Monty”), whose lovely daughter, Kate (Charlotte Salt, TV’s “The Tudors”), serves as landlady. It’s a family affair, because the building has been in the family for 300 years. When Kate is almost drowned by an evil spirit, her ghost-busting cousin, Jed (Theo James, […]
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Little Deaths
If such a thought makes you even the slightest bit uncomfortable, I can’t emphasize this enough: This movie is not for you. Its intent is to disturb, and succeeds. This sort of thing’s been done before, in virtually every episode of “The Hunger” TV series. But, hell, I love that show, so I was cool […]
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Little Deaths
If such a thought makes you even the slightest bit uncomfortable, I can’t emphasize this enough: This movie is not for you. Its intent is to disturb, and succeeds. This sort of thing’s been done before, in virtually every episode of “The Hunger” TV series. But, hell, I love that show, so I was cool […]