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Yep, taking «The Human Centipede» idea one step further (or backward, depending on your tolerance level), writer / director Kevin Smith, has dreamed up the horror flick, Tusk, which...

Yep, taking «The Human Centipede» idea one step further (or backward, depending on your tolerance level), writer / director Kevin Smith, has dreamed up the horror flick, Tusk, which involves a man surgically transforming another man into a large flippered marine mammal.

This film plays out like more of a drama / horror rather than a straight up horror flick and I really admired that change of pace.

But if you dig Zombie's messed up horror flicks, then have at it.

Not exact matches

By now Pruett has his hands up around his face, mouth wide open, looking like one of those horror - struck victims in a Dracula flick.

But the whole thing ends up as a lack luster comedy, not a horror flick.

Another simple flick that is executed to the highest degree, Hush rocks its 80 + minutes of horror goodies and takes it all up a notch.

But the biggest complaint I hear is that horror doesn't hold up against the big Hollywood flicks.

How often have you fallen into the same end of the week routine where you are curling up on the couch, hugging your pillow while watching the latest horror flick on Netflix while chowing down on take out?

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

However, with that said, I jsut think that there's a lot of wasted potential here with what seemed to be, on paper, to be an incredibly interesting concept that was used on what ended up being a substandard horror flick.

Even though the film feels low budget, this still a fairly well done Sci Fi horror flick, though lacking in plot, it makes up for it in thrills.

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

Director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett follow up their popular film festival circuit flick, You're Next, continuing to combine traditional thrills with horror tropes in The Guest.

Dark Universe just heard the awesome news that director Panos Cosmatos» horror action - thriller flick Mandy has been officially picked up by RLJE Films, which is heading...

A meek British sound engineer called, improbably, Gilderoy is hired by an Italian film company to deploy his wizardry in maxing up the horror effects on the soundtrack of a cheap flick about occultism.

Like all the best horror, it plays on primal fears as well as primal needs, starting with the fear of the dark, and working up to metaphysical longings for immortality, while never violating its essential popcorn - flick essence.

In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.

Dark Universe just heard the awesome news that director Panos Cosmatos» horror action - thriller flick Mandy has been officially picked up by RLJE Films, which is heading to theaters this summer with an exclusive theatrical window.

When Paramount picked up Oren Peli's low budget horror flick Paranormal Activity a couple of years back, they had initially intended to simply remake it with a bigger budget.

I'm glad to know that this one lived up to it's creepy trailer and not only made the list of many horror fans as one of the year's best, but proved why indy horror will always be home to some of the greatest horror flicks.

Next up, Eric saw the horror flick «Insidious» and -LSB-...]

Astron - 6 is a genre team that appeals to die - hard genre fans that grew up watching random horror flicks at their local video stores growing up.

The one scene he and Cusack have together in the prestige horror flick 1408 plays like seriomythic garbage - pop poetry: everything's good — the cadence, the words; what I'm saying is that I was well and truly on board with this dumbathon all the way up to the point where Jackson's hotel manager Olin (and as an aside, King has a special place in my heart for opening The Shining with «Officious little prick,» referring to a different hotel manager) offers that the titular room in question isn't haunted, it's just an «evil fucking room.»

If you grew up as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)

What works best about Insidious, which is about as adoring a love letter to Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist as a good film can get, is how it takes horror flick concepts both old and relatively new and mixes them up, blender - style, and the result is a 95 - minute fun - time ass - kicker that has as much love for the genre as it does in making you pounce out of your seat.

Next, splatter flicks featuring everything from severed limbs to decapitated corpses get the same frenetic treatment, followed by horror fare in which the monster hunting for humans was frequently a souped - up automobile.

With an incredibly fun concept, stellar character designs and great performances from Josh Hartnett, Melissa George and Ben Foster, among others, the 2007 horror flick is a surprising treat that holds up as great Halloween viewing on a yearly basis.

Regardless of whether the premise was by coincidence or design, Drag Me to Hell is one of the best horror flicks released in recent years, right up there with two which made this critic's Annual Top Ten List, What Lies Beneath (2000) and Dawn of the Dead (2004).

Sort of a Mumblecore horror flick, this movie starts out with some promise before becoming overly familiar by the third act, but in a week like this, it's the most viable option for those looking to pick something up.

You can now pick up Vinegar Syndrome «s awesome release of director Paul Norman's 1995 horror slasher flick Ice Cream Man on Blu - Ray for the very first...

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Banker Plagued by Customer's Curse in Recession Era Horror Flick Everything has been coming up roses for Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) lately.

Like many bad horror flicks, the plot makes up its own rules as it goes along.

Two of horror's legendary director's team - up to bring you 90's giallo flick Two Evil Eyes, a true bloody shocker classic.

Dimension's boozy teen horror flick All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, starring 21 - year - old looker Amber Heard (Alpha Dog) as a virginal object of affection who gets caught up in a greater, downward - spiraling tug - of - war, releases in a little over a week, on July 20.

This is exactly the sort of film I needed to see at that point in time; it was a wake - up call, a reminder that not all horror was the Final Destination series, that I didn't need to watch every supernatural horror flick (see: The Eye, The Grudge, The Skeleton Key etc.) the studios pushed out every year — even though there was nothing wrong with enjoying them — and that there was an expansive and varied world of horror out there.

This Week: Kevin gears up for Halloween with the first weekend of October (even though it starts in September) with a review of the new horror flick Clowntown, set to the dulcet tune of Petula Clark's «Downtown.»

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More underground than overt adolescent emo rock - star / rapist fantasies like vampirism, the flicks of this type that work — such as Sam Raimi's Spider - Man trilogy, or the third and fifth Harry Potters, or The Passion of the Christ — incorporate the uncertainty and body horror of growing up with hero / martyr fantasies and, ultimately, the melancholy of childhood's end.

Starring Chris Hemsworth, Richard Jenkins and Kristen Connolly Directed by Drew Goddard Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, language, drug use and some sexuality / nudity Serenity writer / director Joss Whedon and Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard team up for this new take on the «cabin in the woods» genre of horror flicks.

Director Scott Derrickson has worked on horror flicks such as «Sinister» and «The Exorcism of Emily Rose,» so while we know it won't go that dark, if this film does manage to up the ante with some scares and chills, then that would be a major one - up on DC (especially with «Justice League Dark» slated for production).

If you're a fan of It Follows, or even just excited for the new horror flick, here are ten other films that'll be up your alley.

Although a respectable entry given how awful most seem nowadays, it is still a rather average horror flick, more likely to tantalize when catching on late night cable than packing up the spouse and kids and pay big bucks to take in.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 2, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Apollo 18 (Unrated) Found - footage horror flick, set in 1974, shedding light on a government cover - up of a NASA space mission on which the crew of astronauts were attacked by parasitic life forms they discovered on the moon.

On the big screen, he popped up in teen - oriented fare (the Jeepers Creepers horror flicks) and played boyfriend to two pop queens: Britney Spears in Crossroads and Lindsay Lohan in Herbie: Fully Loaded.

Until Dawn plays like a horror slasher flick, following a group of 8 friends — Sam, Josh, Jessica, Emily, Mike, Ashley, Chris and Matt — as they take a trip up to a cabin on the anniversary of their friend's death.

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