http://www.horrorphile.net/ "I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about Jaws is the fact that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again." --- David Fincher ::::::::::::: MY CRITERIA FOR DISCUSSION ENCOMPASSES THE HORROR GENRE AND BEYOND, SO I USE THE TERM "NIGHTMARE MOVIES". SPOILERS CAN OCCUR WITH OR WITHOUT WARNING. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. en Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:27:00 GMT Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:27:00 GMT info@horrorphile.net info@horrorphile.net http://www.horrorphile.net/images/horrorphilebanner3.jpg http://www.horrorphile.net/ http://www.horrorphile.net/deliverance/ Four Georgian city men head up into the Appalachian hills and embark on a weekend's canoe trip down the volatile Cahulawassee River, intent on enjoying the surrounding wilderness before the... http://www.horrorphile.net/deliverance/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/deliverance/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:27:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-girl-who-played-with-fire/ The second part of Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009), is as taut and compelling as its predecessor, The Girl with the Dragon... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-girl-who-played-with-fire/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-girl-who-played-with-fire/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:50:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-disappearance-of-alice-creed-movie-ticket-giveaways/ The cool folk at Icon have let me giveaway a few double passes to see the awesome new psychological thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010) which opens in Australia... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-disappearance-of-alice-creed-movie-ticket-giveaways/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-disappearance-of-alice-creed-movie-ticket-giveaways/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:07:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/open-house/ Alice (Rachel Blanchard) opens up her home to potential new buyers, which includes striking couple David (Brian Geraghty) and Lili (Tricia Helfer), who immediately take a shine to the house... http://www.horrorphile.net/open-house/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/open-house/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:19:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/suff-previews/ The Sydney Underground Film Festival returns for its fourth year, and it's boasting the most transgressive, and no doubt controversial, program yet. Almost any and every fetish and perversion is... http://www.horrorphile.net/suff-previews/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/suff-previews/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:58:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/taxi-driver/ "The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary... http://www.horrorphile.net/taxi-driver/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/taxi-driver/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:51:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/piranha-2010/ Wow! Alexandre Aja's 3D remake (his second after the excellent The Hills Have Eyes) of Joe Dante's Roger Corman-produced Piranha (1978) is sensational! It's a spectacular piece of super-trash, an... http://www.horrorphile.net/piranha-2010/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/piranha-2010/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:53:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/zombies-of-mass-destruction/ It's zombie snigger time! "A political zomedy" reads the tagline. It tries hard; it bites and tears a-plenty, but ultimately it shoots itself in the foot. I'd be tempted to... http://www.horrorphile.net/zombies-of-mass-destruction/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/zombies-of-mass-destruction/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:44:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-horde/ Gallic flesh tearin' zombie mayhem! The Horde (2009) is a blood-soaked carnival ride; all loud noise and ferociously exhilarating. For a screenplay co-written by four people, there's not much plot... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-horde/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-horde/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:33:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/dressed-to-kill/ It's been thirty years since Brian De Palma released his giallo-inspired, blatantly Hitchcockian assault on the senses tagged as the latest fashion in murder. Dressed to Kill (1980) excited and... http://www.horrorphile.net/dressed-to-kill/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/dressed-to-kill/ Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:13:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/wilderness/ British juvenile delinquent bullies push things too far and as a result a young prisoner commits suicide. The ward of seven boys is subsequently sent off in an officer's custody... http://www.horrorphile.net/wilderness/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/wilderness/ Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:06:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/horrorphiles-4th-birthday/ It's been four years, huh? Orble's changed quite a bit since I wrote my first post referring to the horror genre as the black sheep of cinema. Not too many... http://www.horrorphile.net/horrorphiles-4th-birthday/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/horrorphiles-4th-birthday/ Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:20:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-hitcher/ It's Friday the 13th. It's Horrorphile's birthday tomorrow. Time to review one of my favourite movies, up in my top twenty of all time, and one that's been there since... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-hitcher/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-hitcher/ Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:57:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/hellbound-hellraiser-ii/ Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) might have survived the carnage at her uncle's Frank (Sean Chapman)'s house, but she still ends up in the psychiatric ward of Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham)'s... http://www.horrorphile.net/hellbound-hellraiser-ii/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/hellbound-hellraiser-ii/ Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:14:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/hellraiser/ Shortly after Clive Barker published his six volumes of short stories, The Books of Blood he published his first novel (The Damnation Game), and then followed it with the novella... http://www.horrorphile.net/hellraiser/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/hellraiser/ Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:46:00 GMT