Starring: Kim Sønderholm, Pontus Olgrim, Jarrod Crooks
Written & Directed By: Kim Sønderholm, Henric Brandt, Ben Wydeven, Guy Pearson, Lars Gustavsson, Oscar Malm
Release: 2009
Grade: B-
 The Horror Vault 2 is the second volume in the series of horror short films. Kim Sønderholm is the only returning director from the first anthology. I wish more of the directors […]

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Starring: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O’Connell
Written & Directed By: James Watkins
Released (DVD): January 2009
Grade: A
 Eden Lake is a film that certainly took me by surprise to say the least. I was expecting the typical couple goes off on vacation, gets lost, and ends up on the trip from Hell thanks to some killer stalking […]

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Starring: Rebekah Brandes, Daniel Bonjour, Justin Baric, Stan Ellsworth, Melissa Steach, Jon Briddell
Written By: Jack Messitt
Directed By: Mark Garbett, Jack Messitt
Grade: B-
Midnight Movie isn’t a great film. It doesn’t quite have top notch acting and can be pretty cheesy. These have always been characteristic of midnight or “B” movies though. These elements actually worked in […]

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Starring: Vincent Bingham, Natasha Smith, Ashley Rose-Withers, Nathan Day, Scott Sullivan, David Haney
Written & Directed By: Stephen Zimmer, Matthew Perry
 The Indie Movie Masters collection will include a series of short films brought together, covering several genres of film. The first volume is entitled the “Festival of Horrors Double Feature”. It includes two short horror thrillers, […]

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Starring: Siko Mike, Zack Matzganis, Ashley Dinescu, Ashton Moraski
Written & Directed By: Siko Mike
Grade: B
Blind Date is a short film about fraternity life, date rape, and revenge. It begins with a group of fraternity brothers who are looking to have a good time one night at a party. Frank (Siko Mike) has a different idea […]

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Starring: Keir O’Donnell, Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge, Jessica Lucas
Directed By: John Simpson
Written By: Jake Wade Wall
Grade: D-
Amusement is a clown horror film that trys to center on childhood revenge. There are 4 different stories, 3 of which end up intersecting together with the same fate. The story is very weak and ends up damaging itself further by […]

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Grace
Starring: Jordan Ladd, Stephen Park, Gabrielle Rose, Samantha Ferris, Malcolm Stewart
Written & Directed By: Paul Solet
Grade: A
Grace is a beautiful horror film that centers on motherhood and the questioning of how far you would go to provide for your child. It is Paul Solet’s first feature, which is pretty astounding. Although the gore, story, and […]

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 Best Horror Movies of 2008-
1. Frontier(s): This is one of my favorite horror films of the year, because it uses horror as a platform with such understanding of the genre. It uses crisis, deception, and injustices that the filmmakers saw in France and injected it to this film to give us a creative and very […]

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Isle of the Damned is a tribute to the Italian cannibal films of the 70s and 80s. However, it isn’t afraid to poke fun at the genre either. The result is an extremely gory, brutal, and hilariously goofy film that fans will love. With Isle of the Damned as their second film, writer, Mark Leake, […]

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Starring: Peter Crates, Larry Gambler, Patrician Rose, Keith Tveit Langsdorf, Dustin Edwards
Directed By: Mark Colegrove
Written By: Mark Leake
Released: 2008
Grade: B+
Isle of the Damned is the cannibal spoof follow up to 2005’s Pleasures of the Damned. It has a lot of common characteristics with all of the great Italian cannibal films from the 70s and 80s, […]

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