Friday, June 27th, 2008 by J. Luis Rivera 
Director: Alex de la Iglesia
Writers: Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Alex de la Iglesia
Release Year: 1995
English title: The Day Of The Beast
An acid comedy for Christmas!
Just as it happened in the film industries of many European countries, the horror genre in Spain had a slow and difficult development until the 60s, when people like Narciso Ibanez Serrador and Amando de Ossorio added a Spaniard flavor to the Eurohorror of those years. However, Spaniard horror lost steam as the 70s ended and by the 80s it was again in a deep slumber in which only cult figures like Jess Franco and Paul Naschy kept truly working within the genre. Fortunately, the 90s brought an entirely new generation of young filmmakers who, having grown up with the films of that golden age, started to create a new series of horror films for the modern reality of Spain.
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Category: Horror, Reviews Tags: Black Comedy, Euro Horror, Satanism
Friday, June 27th, 2008 by J. Luis Rivera 
Director: Richard Stanley
Writer: Richard Stanley
Release Year: 1992
A psychotic mix of horror and western, South African style!
In the early 90s, South African director Richard Stanley was a young director with a short but promising career directing music videos and documentaries. After finishing his first feature length film, the horror and sci-fi hybrid Hardware in 1990, Stanley started working on his dream project: a horror film very loosely based on the Nhadiep, a Namibian mythical serial killer.
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Category: Horror, Reviews Tags: Serial Killer, Supernatural
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 by J. Luis Rivera 
Director: George King
Writers: Ronald Fayre, A.R. Rawlinson & Randall Faye, based on a play by Brooke Warren
Release year: 1939
Horror and mystery with the master of Victorian melodrama!
While in the U.S a British actor with the stage name of Boris Karloff was becoming the ultimate icon of the horror genre in American cinema during the decade of the 30s, another British actor was doing exactly the same for the industry of the United Kingdom. His name was, quite appropriately, Tod Slaughter, and even when his work was focused mainly on stage, through the 30s and 40s he brought to the silver screen his talent for playing the charismatic villains of the grim Victorian melodramas.
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Category: Horror, Reviews Tags: Gothic
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 by Perfesser Deviant 
Director: Anthony Perkins
Writer: Charles Edward Pogue
Release Year: 1986
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
The film opens with novice nun Maureen Coyle (Diana Scarwid) accidentally causing the death of another nun in a scene swiped from Vertigo. She decides to leave the order and catches a ride with general-purpose sleazebag Duane Duke (Jeff Fahey). After being left alone on the road, she finds her way to an out-of-the-way motel run by an interesting man named Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)….
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Category: Horror, Reviews, Thriller Tags: Serial Killer, Slasher
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 by Perfesser Deviant 
Director: Richard Franklin
Writer: Tom Holland
Release Year: 1983
Coming home is hard to do.
More than twenty years after the events of the first film, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is released from the asylum and returns to the Bates Motel. Lila Loomis (Vera Miles)—who apparently married her sister’s boyfriend Sam—objects to his release in the strongest possible terms, but Dr. Bill Raymond (Robert Loggia) assures her that Bates is restored to sanity. Others, including Norman himself, are not so sure….
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Category: Horror, Reviews, Thriller Tags: Serial Killer, Slasher
Director: Alex de la Iglesia
