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In the very early 1990s, I was involved with a little horror film club, and one of the movies we screened, was “A Cat in the Brain”, which back then was brand new. The movie had a reputation of being the most violent splatter movie ever made, some claimed that it goes too far and is just plain nasty.

Retro Horror Review: Bloody Psycho (1989) 1 year 2 weeks ago

The last few months, I’ve reviewed some of legendary horror director Lucio Fulci’s last movies; movies I had heard of but never seen. But now I’ve watched a movie I’ve never even heard of. I had no idea that Fulci supervised (or something like that) a handful of direct-to-video movies (I believe there are five of them) in 1989; the “Lucio Fulci presenta” movies. Fulci “presents” the movies, his name is mentioned in the titles, but I’ve no idea what he had to do with them more than lending them his name.

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Retro Horror Review: Berserker (1987) 1 year 31 weeks ago

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History of Horror Movies - The Scariest Movies Ever Made 2 years 4 weeks ago

History of Horror Movies - The Scariest Movies Ever Made - Another entry in my history of horror movies series
This time it's some of the movies I consider the scariest ever made.
Some of these are classics, some you may have never heard of ...and some are I guess are really just trash.
Included are films like Halloween, Alien, Seven, Audition, Scream, Psycho and more.