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I don’t hate CGI in a movie. It never really bothers me. In fact, I actually quite like it at times. With the right budget and the right creative teams you can get some really impressive stuff.
In really low budget movies, it’s almost OK to give them a pass when the CG is [...]

Many horror fans will know the name Mario Bava.  Amongst horror aficionados he is very highly rated. Some of his well known movies are Black Sabbath, Black Sunday, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Kill, Baby… Kill! and Planet of the Vampires.  He’s thought of as a master of the genre, as well as being more [...]

Filmed in the style of a documentary,  Big Man Japan follows Daisato, who is the latest Big Man. Being Big Man involves being shocked by bolts of electricity and transform into a chubby, stick-wielding giant several stories high. He is entrusted with defending Japan from a host of bizarre monsters. But while his [...]

Officer Bannermn is a horror movie obsessed rookie cop.  It’s her first overnight shift at the station. When the captain brings in “The Eater”, a Cajun Serial Killer, she is curious about the case file.  While browsing the file she hears a noise.  Investigating, she feels something is not quite right, the strange actions [...]

The plot is simple (as you’d expect from a slasher.) Five teens go camping in the woods, they’re warned to leave by several people, they don’t, they die. It’s something you’ve seen dozens of times, but Just Before Dawn, from 1981, comes from right at the start of the slasher boom of the 80s. Unfortunately, [...]