Tag: Body Horror

Ticks (1993) – By Baron Craze

August 5, 2022
Film Reviews

Doug Beswick, a special and visual effects creator, known for Aliens [1986] and Evil Dead II [1987] originally penned the screenplay for this film under the heading of “Cycle of Blood,” sometime back in the early 80s, but never moved past that point, perhaps due to the market of horror going coco-for-slasher movies and some…

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The Rejuvenator (1988) – By Baron Craze

July 31, 2020
Film Reviews

For those unaware this movie is an indirect remake of Roger Corman’s The Wasp Woman [1959], though it does take cues from Re-Animator (1985), with the regard of creating a serum to stay youthful forever, in other words playing to perhaps the favorite deadly sin Vanity. Some of our readers might recall reading about this…

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Bite (2015) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Archived Reviews

Many horror fans recalled the tremendously wonderful remake of The Fly (1986) that director David Cronenberg created, mixing the creature-feature with human horrors and gross-out scene, well director Chad Archibald (who also did The Drownsman) performs a similar task with his film Bite. Chad’s movie involves multiple emotional horrors webbing outward, all of them coming…

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Replace (2017) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2019
Film Reviews

The phrase ‘body horror’ captures the fans attention, the eyes widen with delight, motionless faces become gleeful smiles, for those unaware it goes far past the conceptual term of method acting which has the actor enduring some serious modifications. Often it’s used with David Croneberg’s movies Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986), or the flick Bite…

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Epidemic (2018) – By Baron Craze

February 28, 2019
Film Reviews

First, this not exactly a zombie flick, it falls slightly into the “body horror” subgenre, while the overall story focuses on a mysterious flesh consuming infection it drives a different route, likely due to budget constraints. Stephen Michael Giglio delivers his directorial debut in the horror genre, and 8-years after his first movie Go West…

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Trench 11 (2017) – By Baron Craze

August 31, 2018
Film Reviews

Taking tips from Alien, John Carpenter’s The Thing, throwing in a dash of 28 Days Later and then the classic Steve McQueen’s The Great Escape (1963) and you find a weird horror film from Canada called Trench 11. All of this wrapped up in director and writer Leo Scherman responsible for many television episodes including twelve…

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