Tag: Thriller

Cruel Summer (2016) – By Baron Craze

When one sees certain distribution companies attached to a film, they develop a thought about what that movie likely is, it’s like judge the cover of a DVD to decide if you should invest the time for enjoyment, well Cruel Summer comes from Wild Eye Releasing. Yes, the company responsible for developing low budget wonders…


Turkey Shoot (1982) – By Baron Craze

Severin Films gave an impressive Blu-Ray package to the exploitative Australian film Turkey Shoot, from both producer Antony I. Ginnane (Snapshot [1979]) and director Brian Trenchard-Smith, a man with a reputation for designing and creating larger than life movies on tiny budgets, and one who is familiar with horror genre itself. His past works centering…


Snapshot (1979) – By Baron Craze

This is the first theatrical feature film of director Simon Wincer considered to be an Ozploitation picture, it is actually a well-made thriller (not a horror genre creation) although even a stretch to achieve the level of a thriller aside from a few nerve-wracking scenes. The script written in just 10 days, (although only the…


The Devil’s Honey (1986) – By Baron Craze

  *This review might contain some explicit elements of this erotic thriller, you’ve been warned. * When a horror fan hears or sees the name Lucio Fulci, they think Zombie and gore sliding down the walls, all to the glee of gorehounds, yet there’s another world exists for Fulci, which was thrillers, of questionable sanity….


The Survivor (1981) – By Baron Craze

An Australian-made film that deviated from the current violent trend of Ozploitation and, instead, headed for a deeper conscience of self and mental scares, that film called The Survivor, directed by British actor David Hemmings. This movie marked his fourth time at the helm of a major film, working with screenwriter David Ambrose’s adaptation of…


A Lizard in a Women’s Skin (1971) – By Baron Craze

When one utters the name Lucio Fulci, to anyone in the horror genre, the usual response, eyes widen and evil grins appears, as they recall the gory and sick classic creations such as The Beyond (1981) and Zombie (1979), but also grace the horror landscape with intriguing thrillers, excelling in artistic designs and memorable moments…


Mortal Remains (2013) – By Baron Craze

A production company called Cryptic Pictures first created a documentary thriller, but because of the controversial methodology of how they ‘filmed it’, changed to the context of a shockumentary, before finally in 2013 nestled on Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres for the movie Mortal Remains. The filmmakers to lessons from those of The Blair Witch…


Beyond the 7th Door (1987) – By Baron Craze

Bozidar D. Benedikt, almost entirely dedicated himself to penning fiction, 20-novels (at least), largely for distribution in the former Yugoslavia, then turned writer/director for Beyond the 7th Door a sort of 1987 Canuxploitation thriller (according to some critics), even the IMDb states it’s of the horror genre, far from it. Although this flick thoroughly obscure,…