Category: Film Reviews

Sanctuary; Quite a Conundrum (2012) – By Baron Craze

April 4, 2022
Film Reviews

The director of Special Dead [2006] Thomas L. Phillips who also worked on the award-winning horror film Truth or Dare [2013] with director Jessica Cameron had some problems with his film, Sanctuary: Quite a Conundrum, which occurred in the earliest portion of the filmmaking process – the casting call. Thomas listed his film as a…

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Blood of the Vampire (1958) – By Baron Craze

March 8, 2022
Film Reviews

In the vast horror cinema, there’re likely over 30-subgenres with films crisscrossing and crossover these genres, however there are two that often find themselves overlooked primarily due to their obscurity; namely those are lost films, such as The Redeemer: Son of Satan [1978] and Anglo-horror. The second named group might seem very foreign to many,…

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The Boonies (2021) – By Baron Craze

March 8, 2022
Film Reviews

Often filmmakers will pay homage to the films that inspirated them to venture into filmmaking, or to give a nod to another artist, but it’s truly a fine and delicate line between the realms between this and blatantly ripping films in general, and sadly this falls flatly into the latter grouping. Director Lance Parkin who…

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The Pigman Murders (2015) – By Baron Craze

February 7, 2022
Film Reviews

Somebodys There is the original title of The Pigman Murders which made it Ireland’s turn to enter into the found footage sub-genre, with their creation from director and writer Stephen Patrick Kenny (24 Hours to Die [2016]), which shows great promise, especially when dealing a bunch of drunken buddies celebrating the life of fallen friend…

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Santa’s Slay (2005) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2021
Film Reviews

During the Happy Holiday season there’s a very fun, and yet twisted subgenre of films known as Christmas Horror, sometimes they’re straightforward slashing merrily and then a few incorporate some laughter, but always either cheer or groans for the presents delivered this time of the year. Clearly every horror fan as their favorites my two…

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Hole (2010) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2021
Film Reviews

The discovery for many reviewers and horror fans learning of the rising talents of Joaquin Montalvan came from his low-budget horror film Legend of the Hillbilly Butcher [2014], whose entire filmmaking style bucks the system of formats and structure and eclipses the boundaries of sick twisted creations of horror. Four years prior to the ‘Butcher”…

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Beautiful Prison (2016) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2021
Film Reviews

Horror films always incorporate other genres, and director Joel Vallie who co-wrote with Eric Machiela, does just that with his dramatic and romantic movie Beautiful Prison, distributed through Midnight Releasing. His movie, created and filmed in Mexico, contains subtitles for the translating of Spanish speaking moments, but overall, it is in the English language, some…

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Kirksdale (2007) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2021
Film Reviews

Stumbling across this movie again, I looked up previous reviews and notice one thing – so many dead links, and while it is common, it’s tad alarming, therefore why not take the time to venture back and show some care for this flick. I recalled seeing this movie at the Terror Film Festival (now defunct)…

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Werewolves Within (2021) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2021
Film Reviews

Sometimes, critics become concerned if their view of a movie is too harsh or perhaps judging a movie incorrect, well that is how I felt about this flick, but then I asked friends to watch it and the consensus that that the film is tad underperforming. First, there’s a significant problem with the movie, namely…

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Suburbanite (2013) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2021
Film Reviews

Sometimes when a director steps behind the camera for his first feature debut the jitters occur and effect the overall outcome of the movie, and the failure to achieve to success occurs, but not in the case of Andy Lohrenz who also served as writer of Suburbanite. He presents a thriller with currents of black…

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