Tag: Ghosts

Ghostbusters (1984) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2019
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I afforded the opportunity to watch director Ivan Reitman’s classic 1984 Ghostbusters flick, it like Gremlins released on the same day, was something I missed at the theaters when I was a child; if one wonders why, wait for my autobiography. Needless to say, I have seen it countless times on the small screen, enjoying…

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The Ganzfeld Haunting (2014) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2019
Archived Reviews

This low-budgeted horror film has three screenwriters, strangely attached to director Michael Oblowitz (The Breed [2001]) creation, first Theodore Gildred III (his only horror project) and then writers from The Devil Complex (2015) Caroline Riley and Michael himself. These writers served to present and develop multiple plot lines a tad too ambitious for intended audiences…

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The Haunting of Whaley House (2012) – By Baron Craze

September 30, 2019
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Every city, everywhere, has a legendary haunted house, one with a brutal history and numerous tall tales and perhaps many trespassers, sometimes the building becomes a tourist attraction where one gets a guided tour, such as with the Whaley House located in Old Town, San Diego, which still stands after the creation in 1857 now…

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Johnny Gruesome (2018) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2018
Film Reviews

Sometimes dreams do come true, and Greg Lamberson can attest to that with the screenplay he wrote for Johnny Gruesome in 1984, however at the time unable to raise the funds he produced and directed Slime City (1988) instead in 1986, for $50,000 which went to become a cult classic. Then in 2006, he wrote…

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Surviving the Holidays: Slashing Away Part 2 (Dec 16 to 31) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2018
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December 16th Dismembering Christmas (2015) there’s just something about this title I find amusing, perhaps it reminds of I Dismember Mama (1972), but anyway it follows the slasher playbook, with seven high schoolers shacking up in a winter lake house while someone seeks to see their insides at any cost. I suppose this madman seeks…

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New Horror Releases October 9 to 15, 2018

October 11, 2018
New Horror Releases

October 9, 2018 The Forest of the Lost Souls (2017) (Directed by José Pedro Lopes) Aka: A Floresta das Almas Perdidas   PRINCIPAL CAST: Daniela Love, Jorge Mota, Mafalda Banquart, Lilia Lopes SYNOPSIS: Two strangers meet in a forest notorious for suicides and decide to learn more about each other. Soon it becomes clear that…

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Pay the Ghost (2015) – By Baron Craze

October 10, 2018
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Screenwriter Dan Kay adapts the story from Bram Stoker Award Winning author Tim Lebbon, which director Uli Edel creates a masterful job presenting a Halloween spooky tale and involving a parent’s worst fear, the abduction of their child. The fear alone extends and affects so many in real lives, that conjure more on the subject…

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Blood Child (2017) – By Baron Craze

September 30, 2018
Film Reviews

Blood Child is a creepy horror film about loss, pain, and the supernatural real Southeast Asian rituals that involve the raising of ghost children, sounds fine, if one stops right there, however it doesn’t rather it adds the now tiresome phrasing ‘based on a true story’ oh please, whether it is or not, the words used…

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Necrosis (2009) – By Baron Craze

September 30, 2018
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Michael Berryman, a legendary actor of over 53 horror films makes a cameo appearance in director Jason Robert Stephens’ seventh horror film, entitled Necrosis who he co-wrote with Robert Michael Ryan, creating a slow pacing and brooding story. Their concept, involves one the most disgusting massacres and survival tales penned in America’s history, the Donner…

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The Innkeepers (2011) – By Baron Craze

July 30, 2018
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In the horror genre, there’s always a plus when a film gets to play out in a real-life location, and the place, finds itself directly involved in the storyline, and herein lies The Innkeepers, from director, writer and editor Ti West, set in Yankee Pedlar Inn, Torrington, Connecticut.  This time there is no found footage…

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