http://www.horrorphile.net/ "I RECOGNISE TERROR AS THE FINEST EMOTION AND SO I WILL TRY TO TERRORISE THE READER. BUT IF I CANNOT TERRIFY, I WILL TRY TO HORRIFY, AND IF I CANNOT HORRIFY, I'LL GO FOR THE GROSS-OUT. I'M NOT PROUD." --- STEPHEN KING ::::::::::::: Spoilers for plot points and resolutions can occur within my movie reviews with or without warning. Read at your own risk. en Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:20:00 GMT Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:20:00 GMT info@horrorphile.net info@horrorphile.net http://www.horrorphile.net/images/horrorphilebanner3.jpg http://www.horrorphile.net/ http://www.horrorphile.net/horrorphile-on-holiday/ My fellow True Believers, the horrorphiles, and those of you fresh to the Darkness, I'm slipping into the abyss for the rest of the month; visiting family and old friends... http://www.horrorphile.net/horrorphile-on-holiday/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/horrorphile-on-holiday/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:20:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/shutter-island/1/ "God gave us violence to wage in his honour." Martin Scorsese, arguably the greatest living American director, has delivered some of the finest examples of bravura cinema storytelling ever put... http://www.horrorphile.net/shutter-island/1/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/shutter-island/1/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:41:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/scrubbers/ I remember watching the trailer for Scrubbers (1983) as part of the routine bunch of teasers for B-grade genre flicks that were thrown in front of the main feature on... http://www.horrorphile.net/scrubbers/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/scrubbers/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:48:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-hurt-locker/1/ Fear as a fix, fear as a friend, fear as a foe, fear as a formidable film: The Hurt Locker (2009) is one of the best war movies of the... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-hurt-locker/1/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-hurt-locker/1/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:55:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/communion/ What a strange little movie this one is. Communion (1989) is based on the autobiographical book of the same name by sf writer Whitely Strieber (who wrote the novels Wolfen... http://www.horrorphile.net/communion/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/communion/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:46:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/vote-for-your-favourite-zombie-movie/2/ Now that your favourite vampire movies have been selected it's time to really peel back the undead flesh. Who are your favourite gut-munchers? Which putrid flesh excites you the most... http://www.horrorphile.net/vote-for-your-favourite-zombie-movie/2/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/vote-for-your-favourite-zombie-movie/2/ Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:39:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/your-favourite-vampire-movies/ The results are in! My True Believin' fellow horrorphiles have spoken! Your favourite vampire movies have been decided upon! And there are no big surprises either. Two movies - eighty-five... http://www.horrorphile.net/your-favourite-vampire-movies/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/your-favourite-vampire-movies/ Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:16:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/alice-in-wonderland/ Let's get one thing straight! This is most definitely Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), and shouldn't be confused with Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the... http://www.horrorphile.net/alice-in-wonderland/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/alice-in-wonderland/ Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:39:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/richard-stanleys-favourite-italian-horrors/ Ex-pat South-African director Richard Stanley, an auteur of sorts, burst onto the scene back in 1990 with his rogue sf-horror Hardware, a low-budget shocker that quickly gained a cult following... http://www.horrorphile.net/richard-stanleys-favourite-italian-horrors/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/richard-stanleys-favourite-italian-horrors/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:44:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/13-moments-of-exquisite-agony/ I was given the best book for my birthday, The Book of Lists: Horror, which was published 2008. One of the three authors, Amy Wallace, co-edited the original bestselling The... http://www.horrorphile.net/13-moments-of-exquisite-agony/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/13-moments-of-exquisite-agony/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:05:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/whats-that-tagline-from/ I've always wanted a job as the person who creates the all-important alluring tagline for a movie. There are so many memorable ones, like "In space no one can hear... http://www.horrorphile.net/whats-that-tagline-from/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/whats-that-tagline-from/ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:35:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/zombie-comedy-popculture/ I got a severed-heads up on a couple of amusing piss-takes on zombie culture from the brilliant Canadian rag Rue Morgue. The first is a "public safety" 50s-styled news-reel (like... http://www.horrorphile.net/zombie-comedy-popculture/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/zombie-comedy-popculture/ Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:59:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-horseman/ A grimy darkened street, a siren wails in the background, voices call out, a young girl walks nervously along the edge of the brick wall, past graffiti-strewn rollerdoors. She stops... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-horseman/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-horseman/ Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/the-wolfman/ The Wolfman (2010), is Universal's remake of their classic tale of the curse of lycanthropy, The Wolf Man (1941), and it certainly bears a striking similarity to much of the... http://www.horrorphile.net/the-wolfman/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/the-wolfman/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:50:00 GMT http://www.horrorphile.net/a-lizard-in-a-womans-skin/ The late Italian director and legendary gorehound Lucio Fulci is best known for his Romero rip-off Zombi 2 (1979, AKA Zombie Flesh Eaters), as it was known in Italy, where... http://www.horrorphile.net/a-lizard-in-a-womans-skin/#comments http://www.horrorphile.net/a-lizard-in-a-womans-skin/ Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:48:00 GMT