Author: Ronny Sharpes
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Review: ‘Night Of The Hunted’
Franck Khalfoun Injects Culture War Rhetoric Into A Sniper Thriller.
Director Franck Khalfoun is responsible for one of my favorite remakes in recent history, Maniac (2012). Knowing the care he took to pay homage to one of my favorite genre films while also making it his own, showed me that knew what he was doing when it came to filmmaking. So when I saw his…
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31 Days Of Horror: Day 19 ‘Blood Feast’ (1963)
Directed by: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Synopsis: An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami using their body parts to revive the dormant goddess Ishtar while an inept police detective tries to track him down. By day, Fuad Ramses runs a niche catering company, by night he murders women and collects their body parts. His goal is to prepare a…
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31 Days Of Horror: Day 18 ‘Curandero’ (2005)
Directed by: Eduardo Rodriguez
Synopsis: A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City. In Curandero, Federal Agent Magdalena (Gizeht Galatea) recruits a local curandero (native healer/shaman) named Carlos (Carlos Gallardo) to purify a police station after its been cursed by Castaneda (Gabriel Pingarron) during his escape. Losing his faith in the gifts…
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31 Days of Horror: Day 17 ‘I Drink Your Blood’ (1971)
Directed by: David E. Durston
Synopsis: A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town. A young boy tries to get even after they victimize his sister and grandfather…with deadly results. Any time you see that “Grindhouse Releasing” splash screen and that all too familiar music starts, you know you’re in for a good time. This one…
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31 Days of Horror: Day 16 ‘I, Madman’ (1989)
Directed by Tibor Takacs
Synopsis: A used bookstore clerk and aspiring actress starts seeing the disfigured killer from her 1950’s pulp novels come to life, killing the people around her. Virginia is a used bookstore clerk who has become obsessed with an old horror novel from the 1950’s called “I, Madman”. It’s the story of a doctor who…
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31 Days of Horror: Day 15 ‘Madhouse’ (1981)
Directed by: Ovidio Assonitis
Synopsis: A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic identical twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday, In Madhouse, Julia Sullivan (Trish Everly) is a teacher at a school for deaf children. She has a successful doctor boyfriend. Seems like everything is going well but there’s a darkside to this. For years…
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31 Days Of Horror: Day 14 ‘The Evil’ (1978)
Directed by: Gus Trikonis
Synopsis: A doctor buys a Civil War-era dilapidated mansion and hires a few friends to fix it up, but the mansion hides a deadly secret. In The Evil, A psychologist buys a mansion with the intention of using it as a rehab facility. He recruits some colleagues and students to help him with repairs. Everything…
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31 Days Of Horror: Day 13 ‘Grotesque’ (1988)
Directed by: Joe Tornatore
Synopsis: In Grotesque, A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family’s vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they are chased by a murderous deformed creature. This extremely low budget, direct to tape “horror”…
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31 Days Of Horror: Day 12 ‘The Grim Reaper’
Directed by: Joe D’Amato
Synopsis: A group of friends and a hitchhiker become stranded on a tourist island where they are stalked by a disfigured cannibalistic killer who is prowling the island after killing its residents. Joe D’Amato made a handful of horror films in the 70’s and early 80’s before moving toward more erotic fare and eventually transitioning…
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31 Days of Horror: Day 11 ‘Intruder’ (1989)
Directed by: Scott Spiegel
Synopsis: The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac. I never actually sat down to watch this one in all my years of being immersed in horror. I do, however, remember hearing about this flick simply because it was promoted as starring Sam Raimi, Ted…