Category: Film Reviews

The Vampire Bat (1933) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2023
Film Reviews

It didn’t take long for other studios to capitalize on the success of Universal Pictures’ Dracula [1931] and the first was from Larry Darmour Production who also owned Majestic Pictures distribution company, which was known as a Poverty Row studio aka b-movie/ ow-budgeted films that existed from 1920s to 1950s. This particular 90-year-old film, is…

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2023
Film Reviews

This movie is more of a detective’s tale than a horror film especially by today’s standards. It does layer in plenty of atmosphere and a storytelling that audiences of the 1930s would find appealing and a bit bizarre. Another important element that likely is lost upon the modern audiences is when the film was released,…

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Black Roses (1988) – By Baron Craze

December 11, 2023
Film Reviews

In the mid to late 80s there was a moral crackdown, that in some ways has reincarnated itself even in today’s world, but it was focused on the panic that metal music corrupted the youth luring with fantastic imagery and basked in forbidden pleasures; so much that numerous television shows of then had Satanism as…

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Scarecrows (1988) – By Baron Craze

October 14, 2023
Film Reviews

We find ourselves venturing into a microcosm of the horror realm, yes it obviously deals with the subject of the title and while this movie isn’t about a phobia (formidophobia) of this nonentity it is not the first film to dive into this category that would be Dark Night of the Scarecrow [1981] with the…

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The Private Eyes (1980) – By Baron Craze

October 2, 2023
Film Reviews

Why did I review this film? It’s clearly not horror, nor a thriller, though it falls squarely into the subgenre of mystery-comedy, hence the reason. Well in a year where I am reflecting on those films that influence my love and dedication to the horror genre, it is time to explore everything that got me…

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Urban Legend (1998) – By Baron Craze

October 2, 2023
Film Reviews

Sometimes a film will amass quite a bit, a box office smash, and even have sequels, but it is panned and considered a wretched creation without an original conceptual design and a poor story arc, this is just that sort of film. Horror fans in general disliked this film when initially released though it earned…

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Winterskin (2018) – By Baron Craze

October 2, 2023
Film Reviews

I recall, Charlie Steeds’ previous film Escape from Cannibal Farm [2017] and while that was a passionate tribute to Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1974]; I looked forward to seeing this flick as he did direct and release two others form from 2018, those were The Barge People and The House of Violent Desire. Steeds works on…

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Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (2003) – By Baron Craze

September 23, 2023
Film Reviews

Films seem to gain momentum and succeed in a straight greenlit path while others have many twists and turns and end-up either shelved, or languish in turmoil hell, this movie had the latter done to it, by the distributor. Often a filmmaker wants their movie going out to the masses to get the fame, and…

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Creepy Crawly (2022) – By Baron Craze

September 21, 2023
Film Reviews

This is a film for the fans of creature features and the heebie-jeebies now I separate the two as they are vastly different. A creature feature is purely a monster, not in the form of animals i.e., Alligator [1980] or Jaws [1975], one could think of The Tingler [1959], Leviathan [1989] which was a genetically…

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Jaws 2 (1978) – By Baron Craze

August 31, 2023
Film Reviews

Well, the time has come to review the last film of the Jaws franchise to many it would also be the last of the good sequels to the beloved classic horror thriller; I had taken a few years to finish four parts and did them by celebrating their anniversaries and now in 2023 we come…

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