Category: Archived Reviews

Closed for the Season (2010) By Baron Craze

February 18, 2018
Archived Reviews

Jay Woelfel, who now in early 2018 has over 30 horror film credits to his name, and works in different aspects in the industry, recently released his strange flick Asylum of Darkness (2013), thought it best to revisit an archive review of a previous work of his. Director and writer Jay Woelfel, created an interesting…

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Scream Park (2012) – By Baron Craze

February 18, 2018
Archived Reviews

This review originally posted on the Rogue Cinema site in February 2015. Imagine a horror themed amusement park, a local hangout called Fright Land, which the passing of time has ravaged everything down to skeleton form of once greatness and reduced to faded colors, ruined games and forgotten rides, all in a death rattle spiral…

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Insanitarium (2008) – by Baron Craze

January 13, 2018
Archived Reviews

Jeff Buhler screenwriter for Clive Barker’s Midnight Meat Train, helms his first directorial debut effort with Insanitarium, featuring a slow progressing, low-budget horror story, with the most insane ending of gore and blood splatter, which lasts for 40-minutes. A basic story of Jack (Jesse Metcalfe) and Lily (Kiele Sanchez) surviving after their mother passes, except…

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Turkey Shoot (1982) – By Baron Craze

January 13, 2018
Archived Reviews

Severin Films gave an impressive Blu-Ray package to the exploitative Australian film Turkey Shoot, from both producer Antony I. Ginnane (Snapshot [1979]) and director Brian Trenchard-Smith, a man with a reputation for designing and creating larger than life movies on tiny budgets, and one who is familiar with horror genre itself. His past works centering…

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The Conjuring 2 (2016) – By Baron Craze

January 13, 2018
Archived Reviews

It’s nearly impossible for any horror fan not to hear about the film The Conjuring 2 (and the pending part 3), the sequel to the mighty first one, that has a similar storyline and structure of a slow burn, haunting and a dependable crew and a wonderful cast delivering the scares. Director James Wan returns…

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Cropsey (2009) – by Baron Craze

January 13, 2018
Archived Reviews

The movie which lived on past its festival run of long ago, thriving on VOD, and now available on DVD from Breaking Glass Pictures, still holds a truly special place in both documentaries and urban legends, so often explored by horror movies in general, but never quite equal. Directors Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman present…

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Killer Mermaid (2014) – by Baron Craze

January 13, 2018
Archived Reviews

With the recent release of The Lure (2015) on the well-respected Criterion Collection, a musical based production and bizarre moments that filter more to fantasy than straight-up horror, hence returning to more of horror base concept. When one thinks of mermaid films, most remember Splash (1984) starring Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks, and for the…

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Zombeavers (2014) – By Baron Craze

January 13, 2018
Archived Reviews

This past year of 2017, two the people who worked on this film passed on producer J.C. Spink and actor Brent Briscoe who portrayed the role of Winston Gregorson, both whom died on 18th of their respectful months April and October. First, it is a movie about beavers becoming zombies, and while the concept contains…

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The Demented (2013) – by Baron Craze

December 12, 2017
Archived Reviews

Sarah Bulter, who is no stranger to the horror genre, with over twelve film credits, in which she first graced the screen with Flu Bird Horror (2008) and the remake of I Spit on Your Grave [2010] then battles for survival in director and writer’s Christopher Roosevelt first horror movie The Demented. Roosevelt’s film brings…

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The Survivor (1981) – By Baron Craze

December 12, 2017
Archived Reviews

An Australian-made film that deviated from the current violent trend of Ozploitation and, instead, headed for a deeper conscience of self and mental scares, that film called The Survivor, directed by British actor David Hemmings. This movie marked his fourth time at the helm of a major film, working with screenwriter David Ambrose’s adaptation of…

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