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Review: THE GHOST TRAIN DOESN’T STOP HERE ANYMORE

Review: THE GHOST TRAIN DOESN’T STOP HERE ANYMORE {0}

All aboard the horror express…

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Review: THE HEXECUTIONERS (2016)

Review: THE HEXECUTIONERS (2016) {0}

The road to death can be easy or hard.

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Review: THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA (1976)

Review: THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA (1976) {0}

The Witch, ’70s Style

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Review: MALATESTA’S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD (1973)

Review: MALATESTA’S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD (1973) {0}

“I don’t understand anything that’s going on around here, Kit. I feel like a fly caught in a spider web.”

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Review: THE PREMONITION (1976)

Review: THE PREMONITION (1976) {0}

American Horror Project, Volume 1

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Review: BASKIN (2015)

Review: BASKIN (2015) {0}

Turkish delight

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Review: FEAR ITSELF (2015)

Review: FEAR ITSELF (2015) {0}

Fear itself: not actually, as it turns out, the only thing to fear.

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Review: THE VISIT (2015)

Review: THE VISIT (2015) {0}

M. Night Shyamalan does “found footage”

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FrightFest Review: NIGHT FARE (2015)

FrightFest Review: NIGHT FARE (2015) {0}

Uber-horror

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FrightFest Review: HOWL (2015)

FrightFest Review: HOWL (2015) {0}

Werewolves on a Train

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FrightFest Review: MOST LIKELY TO DIE (2015)

FrightFest Review: MOST LIKELY TO DIE (2015) {0}

Scream and… Scream again? 

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Review: LAST GIRL STANDING (2015)

Review: LAST GIRL STANDING (2015) {0}

Not to be confused with FINAL GIRL or THE FINAL GIRL

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FrightFest Review: RABID DOGS, aka ENRAGÉS (2015)

FrightFest Review: RABID DOGS, aka ENRAGÉS (2015) {0}

Is Éric Hannezo’s remake of Mario Bava’s 1974 “classic” vapid or valid?

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FrightFest Review: THE HALLOW (2015)

FrightFest Review: THE HALLOW (2015) {0}

Corin Hardy: the new Robin Hardy?

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FrightFest Review: HELLIONS (2015)

FrightFest Review: HELLIONS (2015) {0}

Dora the expectant

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FrightFest Review: TURBO KID (2015)

FrightFest Review: TURBO KID (2015) {0}

It’s like a museum of coolness

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Review: FINAL GIRL (2015)

Review: FINAL GIRL (2015) {0}

It was Carol J. Clover who first coined the term ‘final girl’ in her influential book Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (1992).

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FrightFest Review: Wind Walkers (2015)

FrightFest Review: Wind Walkers (2015) {0}

Not to be confused with Windtalkers (2002)

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Review: GIRL HOUSE (2014)

Review: GIRL HOUSE (2014) {0}

You never know who’s watching.

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Review: THE GALLOWS (2015)

Review: THE GALLOWS (2015) {0}

Thereby hangs a tale…

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BIRTH PAINS: Pregancy and Birth in the Horror Movie

BIRTH PAINS: Pregancy and Birth in the Horror Movie {0}

Conceptual Anxieties, Pregnant Panic and the Birth Pangs of Horror

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Review: CHARLIE’S FARM (2015)

Review: CHARLIE’S FARM (2015) {0}

Legend has it that, far beyond the town of Mitchell, some 600km inland from Queensland’s coastline, an abandoned homestead – once the scene of unspeakable depravities – is now supposedly haunted. Which makes Charlie’s Farm, as the place is known, a magnet for horror-happy backpackers willing to go way off the beaten track in pursuit(…)

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Review: INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 (2015)

Review: INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 (2015) {0}

This may be the first instalment in the Insidious franchise that is a formal prequel, but in fact the whole Insidious series has been fixated on the past.

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Review: HATE CRIME (2013)

Review: HATE CRIME (2013) {0}

Banned and panned? “Today’s a special day isn’t it?… Is it Hannukah?…Could it be Passover?”

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Review: POLTERGEIST (2015)

Review: POLTERGEIST (2015) {0}

“They’re here.” Again. Much like a house built on top of the unrestful dead, Gil Kenan’s Poltergeist is haunted by the ghost of Tobe Hooper’s original. Few complained that the 1982 film itself drew much of its plotting from a 1962 Twilight Zone episode called “Little Girl Lost” (about a child who has slipped into(…)

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