Mini-Reviews: CORRUPTION, NIGHT TERROR, and THE THAW
Corruption (1968) When a renowned surgeon’s (Peter Cushing) skin grafting experiments fail on his self-centered fiancee’s (Sue Lloyd) burnt face he’s pressured into using “fresher” test subjects by murdering random women and stealing their heads. A surprisingly violent rip-off of…
Mini-Reviews: ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE, DARK MOUNTAIN, and THE EMPTY MAN
Are You in the House Alone? (1978) A teenage girl (Kathleen Beller) begins receiving threatening notes and phone calls from a stalker after she starts dating the popular guy in school. When her concerns are dismissed by friends and teachers…
Mini-Reviews: DEMENTED, THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, and X-RAY
Demented (1980) After suffering a traumatic sexual attack by four men, the mental health of a housewife (Sallee Young, Home Sweet Home) downward spirals until a break-in at her house causes her to snap and go on a killing spree.…
Mini-Reviews: HIDE AND GO SHRIEK, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, and SCALPS
Hide and Go Shriek (1988) A group of high school friends celebrating graduation sneak into a furniture store to party and have sex but are interrupted by a killer in this enjoyably cheesy slasher. The movie is filled with stock…
VERSUS – Wrong Turn (2021)
Welcome to a new feature on Matt’s Horror Addiction: VERSUS. Versus takes one film and presents two opposing opinions in head-to-head reviews with my friend and horror movie aficionado, Frank Pittarese. We’ll explain why we loved and hated the same…
Mini-Reviews: ALONE IN THE DARK, THE CAR, COLD PREY, and THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES
Alone in the Dark (1982) A terrific mash-up of the slasher subgenre about three psychopaths (Jack Palace, Martin Landau, and Erland van Lidth) who escape from a mental facility and terrorize the hospital’s new doctor (Dwight Schultz) and his family.…
Mini-Reviews: BLACK WATER, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN, and OLD
Black Water (2007) Intense Australian low-budgeter about a small group of friends who find themselves trapped in a watery nightmare when their motorboat capsizes and they’re hunted by a large, bloodthirsty crocodile. The characters are all basically cardboard cutouts, but…
VERSUS – Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin
Welcome to a new feature on Matt’s Horror Addiction: Versus. Versus takes one film and presents two opposing opinions in head-to-head reviews with my friend and horror movie aficionado, Frank Pittarese. We’ll explain why we loved and hated the same…
Mini-Reviews: THE LEGACY, LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, and SOMETHING EVIL
The Legacy (1978) Shades of The Omen are seen in this handsome supernatural shocker about a couple (Sam Elliot and Katherine Ross) stranded in the English countryside after a motorcycle accident and invited to stay with a mysterious man at…