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September 22, 2014
The Mummy (1932)
Director Karl Freund's debut feature is among the finest of the 1930's classic horror films featuring some haunting images, great special effects photography, and a memorable performance from screen legend Boris Karloff that is equal to his other classic horror character of Frankenstein.
A team of archaeologists from the Royal British Museum unearth the mummy of Imhotep at a dig in Egypt in the early 1920's only to find that the mummy disappears shortly thereafter a...
A team of archaeologists from the Royal British Museum unearth the mummy of Imhotep at a dig in Egypt in the early 1920's only to find that the mummy disappears shortly thereafter a...
The Creature Walks Among Us
Director John Sherwood's 2nd feature film, the 3rd and final instalment in the Creature From The Black Lagoon series, is a thought provoking classic horror film that ponders the true nature of the creature and his motives as he is once again subjected to scientific testing that significantly alters his reality.
A team of genetic scientists head into the Florida Everglades in search of the Creature after hearing of his escape from the oceanographic institute. Once...
A team of genetic scientists head into the Florida Everglades in search of the Creature after hearing of his escape from the oceanographic institute. Once...
September 20, 2014
High Tension
Director Alexandre Aja's 2nd feature film is an all out, blood soaked, horror fans delight featuring an awesome script, brilliant performances across the board, and some of the most inventive sequences to come along in quite some time.
Alex and her friend Marie head into the country for a few days in order to get some quiet study time at Alex's families farm. Shortly after settling in for their first night there is a ring on the doorbell and before long a nigh...
Alex and her friend Marie head into the country for a few days in order to get some quiet study time at Alex's families farm. Shortly after settling in for their first night there is a ring on the doorbell and before long a nigh...
Revenge Of The Creature
Director Jack Arnold's 5th feature film, the 2nd in the Creature From The Black Lagoon series, picks up a year after the events of the 1st film with another team of scientists looking to capture the Creature for the purposes of studying his capabilities.
A team of marine biologists set out to capture the Creature for the purposes of study at an oceanographic institute in Florida. After a brief encounter with the creature in his natural habitat in which the sci...
A team of marine biologists set out to capture the Creature for the purposes of study at an oceanographic institute in Florida. After a brief encounter with the creature in his natural habitat in which the sci...
My Soul To Take
Writer/Director Wes Craven's 20th feature film is yet another typical teen slasher thriller that is attempting to capture the hype of the mid 90's horror chic films.
On the eve when a mass murderer known as the Riverton Ripper is finally caught by the police, later to escape during transport to a hospital while in critical condition with his body never found, 7 babies are born and rumoured to each be carrying certain aspects of the Ripper's soul. 16 years late...
On the eve when a mass murderer known as the Riverton Ripper is finally caught by the police, later to escape during transport to a hospital while in critical condition with his body never found, 7 babies are born and rumoured to each be carrying certain aspects of the Ripper's soul. 16 years late...
The Gift
Director Sam Raimi's 9th feature film is a brilliant blend of Gothic thriller and dramatic character study that tells the story of a small southern town caught up in the midst of a mystery when the daughter of the wealthiest man in town goes missing and the investigations only leads in the case come from the local psychic.
Annie Wilson is a small town psychic, with a practise that she runs on donations out of the back room of her house, and a mother of three young b...
Annie Wilson is a small town psychic, with a practise that she runs on donations out of the back room of her house, and a mother of three young b...
September 18, 2014
Exorcist: The Beginning
Director Renny Harlin's 12th feature film, the 4th instalment in the Exorcist series, tells the story of father Merrin's first encounter with the demon shortly after the end of the 2nd World War while investigating strange circumstances at an archaeological dig site in Kenya.
Father Merrin, having given up his duties as a priest after an incident during World War 2, is hired on as an archaeological expert to oversee the uncovering of a christian church buried in the...
Father Merrin, having given up his duties as a priest after an incident during World War 2, is hired on as an archaeological expert to oversee the uncovering of a christian church buried in the...
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Writer/Director Wes Craven's 2nd feature film is just as brutal, shocking, and psychologically disturbing as his first film, as he takes the level of depravity to the extreme with this masterful horror film that is as psychologically disturbing as it is grisly.
A family travelling across country from Ohio to California gets stranded in the New Mexico desert when the rear axle on their car is damaged in an accident. As the patriarch of the family and the son in...
A family travelling across country from Ohio to California gets stranded in the New Mexico desert when the rear axle on their car is damaged in an accident. As the patriarch of the family and the son in...
See No Evil
Director Gregory Dark's mainstream debut feature is an over-stylised slasher film that attempts to be something which it clearly is not; a passable film.
A bus loaded with 4 female inmates, 4 male inmates, and 1 guard from each prison arrives at a rundown hotel that was once the height of decadence for a 3 day work release program to help restore the building. Once inside the hotel each of the 10 people are brutally hunted down and killed by a physically daunting, d...
A bus loaded with 4 female inmates, 4 male inmates, and 1 guard from each prison arrives at a rundown hotel that was once the height of decadence for a 3 day work release program to help restore the building. Once inside the hotel each of the 10 people are brutally hunted down and killed by a physically daunting, d...
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Director Jack Arnold's 4th feature film marks the beginning of a classic Universal Monster franchise with some terrific underwater action sequences and a terrifically over-dramatic musical score.
A team of scientists exploring the Amazon discover an ancient fossil of what appears to be a humanoid hand with webbed claw-like fingers. Before long an expedition of marine biologists head down the ancient river to an isolated area the locals refer to as the Black La...
A team of scientists exploring the Amazon discover an ancient fossil of what appears to be a humanoid hand with webbed claw-like fingers. Before long an expedition of marine biologists head down the ancient river to an isolated area the locals refer to as the Black La...
