Starring: Minase Yashiro, Asami, Kentaro Shimazu, Honoka, Nobuhiro Nishihara, Ryôsuke Kawamura
Written & Directed By: Noboru Iguchi
Released: 2008
Grade: B+
Asian horror or even more so American remakings of it, have always been one of the weakest brands of horror in my eyes. The Host surprised me though as one of the first examples in a long time […]

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Starring: Leighton Meester, Nicholas D’Agosto, Melora Hardin, Larry Joe Campbell, Lola Glaudini
Written & Directed By: Brendan Cowles, Shane Kuhn
Released: 2007
Grade: B+
Drive Thru is a teen horror film that has elements of It and A Nightmare On Elm Street and twists them to give us a wildly funny film. It uses a psychotic clown to not […]

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Starring: Leah Pipes, Kristin Cavallari, Josh Henderson, Andrew Lawrence, Lou Diamond Phillips, Sally Kirkland, Geoffrey Lewis, Ginger Gilmartin
Directed By: Harry Basil
Written By: Brian Cleveland, Jason Cleveland
Released: 2006
Grade: B-
Fingerprints is a ghost story that is based on a tragedy that occurred in San Antonio, Texas in 1949. A bus collided in to a train; it stalled […]

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Starring: Cassy Harlo, Heather Doba, Jessica Hall, James Block, Dwayne Roszkowski, Jason Ryan
Directed By: Tommy Brunswick
Written By: Dwayne Roszkowski, Tommy Brunswick
Grade: B-
Remakes of the horror genre are populating the theater now more than ever. The vast majority of them, don’t even deserve the name of the original. Either they recreate the same movie in the […]

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Starring: Alysson Paradis, Béatrice Dalle
Directed By: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Written By: Alexandre Bustillo
Released: 2007
Grade: B+
As if there was any question, it’s official, France is where the center of the excellence of modern day horror. This started with the bloody and intense High Tension in 2003. Recently, Them, Frontier(s), and now Inside have followed in its’ […]

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Starring: Joshua Close, Michelle Morgan, Chris Violette, Phillip Riccio
Written & Directed By: George A. Romero
Released: 2008
Grade: C-
George A. Romero, father of the zombie sub-genre of horror, gives us another tale of the living dead. Rather than continuing the dead series story, he chose to start over from the beginning, already having the sequel to Diary […]

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Starring: Bostin Christopher, Ashley Johnson, Illeana Douglas, Daniel Stern, Jared Kusnitz, Jere Burns, Kevin Pollack
Directed By: Tony Krantz
Written By: Erik Jendresen, Thomas Schnauz
Released: 2008
Grade: A-
Otis is a satire on the recent “torture porn” films. However, it is more than just a comedic take on the subject. The laughs and outrageousness of the characters that we […]

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Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart
Written & Directed By: Michael Haneke
Released: 2007
Grade: B
Funny Games is a shot-by-shot remake of the Austrian film of the same name from 1997. Normally the case with remakes, but especially when the films are so close to each other, with nothing aside from different actors […]

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Starring: Lourdes Colon, Lendon LaMelle, Valerie Feuer, Angie Rachelle Hauk, Michael Galvez, Jack Hill
Written & Directed By: Scott Madden
Released: 2008
Grade: B
The Kiss is a vampire film dealing with love, immortality, and a murderous nature. The story takes place in Hell in 1802 with the queen of the snake clan being trapped in a coffin and […]

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Starring: Karina Testa, Patrick Ligardes, Samuel Le Bihan, Amélie Daure, Joël Lefrançois,Jean-Pierre Jorris, Estelle Lefébure, David Saracino, Aurelien Wiik, Maud Forget
Written & Directed By: Xavier Gens
Released: 2008
Grade: A+
Frontier(s) is a French horror film that takes the lead of films of grotesque horror, but uses more thought to construct meaning and purpose in the film, than […]

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