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Sardoodledom (n.) – Well-made works of drama that have trivial, insignificant, or morally objectionable plots.
The word was coined by George Bernard Shaw, who effectively manipulated Mr. Sardou’s surname in a way that can only be deemed as “fuggin’ hilarious” to describe Sardou’s own work, calling his plays, among other things, “empty of ideas.”
Sardou, in predicting [...]
…or, Brad watches twenty-eight horror films, one per day, and writes reviews of allllllllllllllllllllllllll of them.
I have no delusions to the magnitude of difficulty this seemingly unnecessary and ill-conceived plan holds. If you know me, and I’m fairly certain you don’t (but that doesn’t mean we can’t be friends!), then you’re well aware that I [...]
The post-apocalyptic horror film Carriers has been privy to an abundance of coverage lately on major horror sites, so I figured I’d check out the trailer. Written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, the film follows a band of survivors heading to an isolated beach to wait out the pandemic. Little do they know [...]
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Director: Brad Anderson
Year: 2008
Country: USA
I’ve made it no secret that I absolutely adore Brad Anderson. Since first seeing it six years ago, Session 9 has remained among my favorite horror films and if you have ever noticed, is encompassed in the design of my blog. So I’m really not surprised that Transsiberian, his most recent [...]
…an apology to George Snow, the passionate writer and director of the cult indie smash Us Sinners.
In my review I incorrectly described a scene, wherein the main character “places a condom in [the] mouth,” of a dead prostitute, or something to that effect. He has since proven me wrong by uploading the scene in question [...]
In response to my review for The Unborn, one kind individual had some rather harsh words:
I walked out of your review before getting through even 1/3. Horrible x 8.
I then went back to see if I could finish the rest of it… ugh… Horrible x 2800.
Work on your writing skills, learn how not to ramble [...]
New horror films will be made and studied and enjoyed without “film critics” jamming their buzz words and useless conglomerate machine’s terms down into the non-elitist throats of the populist. These terms are all encompassing and sad. They lump movies into specific categories which shows complete and utter narrow-mindedness rather than one ounce of something [...]
A friend of mine was telling me the other day of a Nike commercial that parodied slasher films, wherein a young woman, attractive and for some reason alone in a house in the woods, is chased by a masked psychopath wielding a chainsaw. Lucky for her, she’s wearing Nike shoes and easily escapes the villain, [...]
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It has been stated (by me, many times) that the real world and the many maladies that plague our daily lives have the potential to serve as a greater inspiration for horror films than vampires, zombies, and vampire zombies combined. These terrifying realities of life – disease, terrorism, republicans (Red State) – that welcome us [...]
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Director: David Goyer
Year: 2009
Country: USA
For a long time I’ve railed against Platinum Dunes and the atrocities they have committed in the name of entertainment. Their shameless exploitation of the stupidity of the American moviegoer and their deluded notion of what constitutes good horror has resulted in some of the worst horror films in recent memory [...]
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