Horror Movie Reviews

I saw this movie in the year 1999 in a cinema when it was released here in Germany. It was clear from the first minute of the film that this is going to be a complete [waste]. This didn't look so good at the beginning, but after 10min watching you'll notice that it's not supposed to be a really scary movie....I'ts supposed to be a horror-comedy. And this is really great fun.

Some of the scenes you're like "Huh? Do did he/she/it do that?". So sometimes it's a little unrealistic. So what? All movies are a little unrealistic so don't let that spoil you're mood. The ending is really really REALLY unexpected and very brutal. The last 30 min is just like a slasher-fest in the garden of a large house where three stupid teenagers are hunted by a murderer with a very sharp sickel. And this is incredibly done. Because the pain you see the actors have makes you shriek together as if you were living this through.

The movie's doesn't really have any shock-scenes but it does have its intense moments and I think that real fear is better than a ghost jumping out of a closet.

All in one: This movie is kinda scary and doesn't have very good acting at all (Well maybe the first 7 min are ok). But this movie is really more brutal than anything I've ever seen. Original murdering scenes (Blender, Kitchen, Pool...) make this movie one hell of a ride.

A must see for all who enjoyed "Scream 3" and "Anatomy 2" (I don't know when Anatomy 2 is starting in USA. Sorry!).

A truly frightening film. Babysitter (Susan George) is hired to take care of kid, while couple goes to dinner. But that couple has a skeleton in its closet in the form of the woman's ex-husband who once tried to kill her. He's sent away to a psychiatric hospital, but escapes and decides to get even with wife who put him there.
Film contains truly scary sequences and is a hundred times better than the generic "babysitter in peril" that appeared during the late 70's-early 80's. Acting is superb throughout, and Ian Brennan as the psychotic ex-husband is truly brillant. Film is a must see for horror fans.

An excellent assortment of "B" horror flicks and campy comedy. Includes Cannibal Women in the Avocade Jungle of Death (paraody of Apocalypse Now), Parasite (Demi Moore fights mutant bug), Laserblast (ray gun goes berserk), Petticoat Planet (space pilot crashes on female Wild West planet), Head of the Family (lovely and lively Jacqueline Lovell versus mutants), Hideous (ditto, with infamous gorilla mask hijacking scene), The Creeps (monsters of literature become flesh, but half-size), Curse of the Puppet Master (part of excellent Puppet Master series), Retro Puppet Master (ditto), Bloodstorm (part of excellent Subpsecies series about Radu the Vampire), Vampire Journals (ditto), Witchouse (witch returns for revenge against her accusers' descendants), Castle Freak (monster in the mansion) and The Dead Hate the Living (low budget filmakers revive zombies). NOTE: these films are too intense or too risque for children.

The new CGI Gaos is fun to watch but I like the Vampire-like quality of the old Gaos though I haven't seen Gamera4 yet so I can't speak about the Albino Gaos.

Gaos is a Giant vampire bat with a triangular head firing lazers frm its mouth. Because of its second lazer-beem throut, it can't turn its neck and for some reason it can't stand sunlight. This one really gave Gamera a hard time of it.

Riccardo Freda followed up his 1962 classic "Terror of Dr.Hitchcock" with 1963's "The Ghost"...again with Barbara Steele. This time, Hitchcock is a frail ailing man in a wheelchair relying on seances and drugs. His beautiful and glamorous wife Margaret (Steele) is tired of looking after him and wants to be with her lover, family friend Dr.Livingstone. She also wants his wealth and the jewels he keeps locked in a safe. So she persuades Livingstone to kill him. But as soon as he's entombed, Dr.Hitchcock's ghost seeemingly returns to haunt them. Margaret is especially targeted and driven to frenzy. In a well done scene, she believes Livingstone has tricked her out of the jewels and slashes him to death with a straight razor---the blood splattering and running down the screen. "The Ghost" is an exquisitely mounted Gothic horror film with beautiful sets and dripping with morbid atmosphere. Steele looks fantastic. She is well photographed to show off her lustrous dark hair and dark exotic eyes. She is especially fetching in period costumes...particularly a black sequined lace gown. Her performance as vixen/victim is very good. The pace of the film is very leisurely allowing the terror to mount bit by bit until full throttle horror sets in. Unfortunately, it's released by the cheapo Alpha Video people so the transfer is lousy. Diehards (such as myself) will find it watchable though. Until someone rescues it and gives it the treatment it so richly deserves, this is the best we can get. So for the fans, it's a find. Enjoy.

this collection of bela lugosi films is great. there are five films on this disc and the quality of each film is quite good considering their age. they have been digitally mastered by the platinum disc corporation and the sound quality is quite good as well. here the films: the gorilla, the devil bat, the human monster, the invisble ghost, the ape man. all are very enjoyable films to watch and enjoy many times

Nothing beats the oldies.
Night of the Living Dead alone is worth [$$], getting
House on Haunted Hill and the Terror are a great Bonus,
I absolutely love these old compilation DVD's, I buy every
one I find,and this one is one of my favorites.

Lady Frankenstein, somewhat to my surprise, comes off as the most creative if not the best retelling of the done-to-death Frankenstein theme I have ever seen. It has its logical inconsistencies, at least one annoying and irrelevant character, and a thoroughly cheesy-looking monster, but I cannot but love this movie. Maybe it's the European ambiance that appeals to me so much; maybe it's the interesting little parallel contradictions (a term that makes little sense, I admit, but seems to encapsulate my thoughts) with Shelley's story and the original 1931 movie version. Probably, though, it is Rosalba Neri (going by the name of Sara Bay) in her role of Frankenstein's daughter. I don't have to tell you that I never really expected to find myself watching a Frankenstein movie with the words "Man, she's hot" constantly forming on my lips. As you might have guessed by the lead actress' name, Lady Frankenstein is an Italian horror film released in 1971 with the title La Figlia Di Frankenstein. Its look and feel is very much in line with the Hammer horror films that were all the rage back then. I'm still a little unsure how Joseph Cotton found his way in the picture, but maybe it had something to do with the American director Mel Welles. In any event, the casting of Cotton in the role of Dr. Frankenstein is a little weird, but he does a fine job in the role.

Forget some of what you know about the Frankenstein legend. In this film, Frankenstein, assisted by the non-hunchbacked Dr. Charles Marshall (Paul Muller), gives life to his monster only days after his daughter (Rosalba Neri) has returned home with her own surgical degree and "radical" medical ideas. Naturally, the monster kills Frankenstein right there in the lab and escapes into the night. The monster, incidentally, is quite silly-looking, looking like nothing so much as one of the Metaluna creatures from This Island Earth whose face, unfortunately for him, sort of caught on fire during the lightning strike that gave him life (not to mention super-human strength). Since his criminal brain sadly has a damaged hypothalamus, there is really nothing for him to do but wander the countryside killing people, especially if he catches them fornicating in the woods, before settling down to even the score with the men responsible for his new despicable life.

Daughter Tanya will not let her father's lifetime dream end in such a dishonorable way as this, so she claims her father was killed by a robber. Her idea is to create a second monster to be the executioner of the first monster, but then love and sex and just a little bit of beautiful evil fall in the mix, setting the stage for a conclusion that augurs well for no one. Torch-bearing villagers naturally demand their rightful place in the denouemont, and the ending, when it comes, is quite sudden and quite tragic, at least to my Rosalba Neri-enchanted eyes. There is some nudity in this picture, which is surely something you don't see in your average Frankenstein movie, and I for one definitely have no problem with it, especially since it plays delightfully off of the somewhat Victorian Gothic Euro-horror look and feel of the movie. This is basically a four-star movie that more than earns its fifth shiny star from this reviewer as a result of Rosalba Neri's captivating performance.

Leprchaun back 2 the hood is funny and scary at the same time. Sometimes you just want that damn leprechaun to die so he wont come back again and then you just think that if he dies for good there wont be other leprechau sequels. Out of all the horror movies this has to be the best and exciting movie ever, I recommend buying all the leprechaun movies. If you are a definite Horror movie lover, then you gotta buy this!

Im sure that technically speaking the sound, clarity etc, is not up to the DVD standards of excellency, but it is fun to see it as I remembered long ago, on late night horror shows. It is nice to know that one can own it and see it when one get the urge to see classic "B" at their best. Im sure that when they do bring out a digital mastered and restored version I will buy it also, but Im glad to have this "true" version in my collection of equally badly made but greats.