Tag: Murder-Mystery

Rope (1948) – By Baron Craze

June 30, 2019
Other Worldly Cinema

As many know I am a huge Alfred Hitchcock fan, having watched his movies countless times, and perhaps read over 40 books on the man, his craft and style of filmmaking, who is known to have influenced others, including recently Jordan Peele (Us [2019]), but he remains the holder of the always impressive title Master…

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Cold Moon (2016) – By Baron Craze

October 11, 2018
Film Reviews

Working from an original body of work, director and co-writer Griff Furst adapted his screenplay from the book “Cold Moon Over Babylon” (1980) by Michael McDowell {RIP 1999}, who co-wrote the script Beetlejuice (1988); delivers an enjoyable with bleak moments story, likely to fly under the radar for many horror fans, as it presents more…

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The Curse of Downers Grove (2015) – By Baron Craze

April 19, 2018
Archived Reviews

Screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis, the creator of Less Than Zero and American Psycho, transforms Michael Hornburg’s novel into a quasi-horror movie, with more of a solid footing in the thriller genre, with some elements of murder-mystery wrapped up nicely for the teenage market. The movie’s director Derick Martini delivers a fine quality movie, that stalled…

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Sightings (2017) – By Baron Craze

December 11, 2017
Film Reviews

Sightings delivers a new direction of exploration of aliens, UFOs and Bigfoot, that will likely have conspiracy theorists spinning other worldly concepts. Therefore, what starts with stories and rumors about Bigfoot becomes a backstory for a murder-mystery movie directed and written by Dallas Morgan repeat it’s not a horror film, rather adventure and mystery. However,…

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