Feature: The Communist Vampire's Horror Review
Thomas M. Sipos on horror movies
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Book Review: Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth— The PC bigotries of academic film books, from their pretentious vapidity to the political showboating.
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DVD Review: Blood Relations— Gruesome brain torture doesn't save this cheap suspense/noir film.
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DVD Review: Invasion of the Flesh Hunters— Italian cannibal film with a Vietnam War subtext.
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Movie Review: Hollow Man— Why does invisibility turn people into serial killers?
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DVD Review: The Devil's Nightmare, aka The Devil Walks At Midnight— If you like succubi - and who doesn't? - you'll like The Devil's Nightmare.
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Movie Review: Curtains— A slasher film that offers profound insight into fame, celebrity, and "making it" in Hollywood.
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Movie Review: Theater of Blood— Vincent Price hams it up in this wicked-fun black comedy.
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Movie Review: Nadja— There's enough fatalism, pessimism, and gloom in this horror-art film to delight a whole mausoleum-full of Goths.
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Film Festival Mistakes to Avoid: Lessons From the Tabloid Witch Awards— In reviewing entries for the Tabloid Witch Awards horror film contest, I see the same recurring mistakes.
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Movie Review: Mulholland Drive— This is a common Lynchian theme: The innocent who is drawn to dark strangers living corrupt lives under the Disney-fied surface of Americana.
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Book Review - Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the Seventies— There's meat, and blood and guts and gore. This is a beautiful book, hugely glossy, lavishly illustrated, in resplendent color.
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DVD Review: Shadow of the Vampire— Vampires are usually depicted as either alluring romantics or repulsive beasts. To his great credit, Dafoe successfully blends the two personas.
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Book Review: Cinematic Hauntings— Intelligent and informative essays on key ghost films.
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DVD Review: Blood - The Last Vampire— The Girl With No Name is a laconic vampire hunter in this beautiful, haunting anime.
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Book Review: The Night Stalker Companion— A well-structured chronicle of the rise and fall and afterlife of Carl Kolchak, a hard-boiled reporter who investigates supernatural and extraterrestrial crimes.
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DVD Review: End of Days— Schwarzenegger battles Satan in this horror-action hybrid.
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DVD Review: Embrace of the Vampire— Some inside scoops on this Alyssa Milano nudie flick. But I kept my clothes on.
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DVD Review: Starship Troopers— This is 9/11 satire shot pre-9/11.
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Book Review: Tales From the Crypt: The Official Archives— Definitive history of this horror phenomenon grapples with censorship and art's influence for good or ill.
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DVD Review: Hell Night— Yet another slasher film, but Linda Blair and Peter Barton lend depth and sympathy to their characters despite some hokey dialogue.
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VHS Review: The Velvet Vampire— Psychedelic Jesus freaks vs. groovy vampire chick.
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VHS Review: Blood and Roses— Beautiful, brooding, broken-hearted - every Goth's ideal romantic vampire.
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DVD Review: Haunted— If Merchant Ivory did horror...
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Book Review: Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror— The theatrical roots of blood and gore.
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DVD Review: Castle Freak— Re-Animator's creative team disappoints.
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DVD Review: Offerings— Okie film school aids this Halloween clone.
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Video Review: The Unseen— Here's an assignment: Portray a sympathetic mutant retard killer, while wearing soiled diaper-like rags, in makeup that makes you look like incestuous spawn.
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Book Review: Flowers From Hell: A Satanic Reader by Nikolas Schreck— Historical context of Satan through literature.
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DVD Review: The Big Alligator River— Entertaining politically incorrect horror trash.
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DVD Review: Zombie Island Massacre— No flesh-eating zombies here. Zombie Island Massacre isn't even a horror film, not really. It's structured as a horror film in the first hour, then reveals itself to...
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DVD Review: Crucible of Horror— It's tense and enjoyable. It just makes no sense.
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DVD Review: What Lies Beneath— ... nothing very scary.
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DVD Review: Short Night of the Glass Dolls— An Italian giallo about Communist Satanists.
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Book Review: Monsters From The Id by E. Michael Jones— Horror films resonate with our guilty conscience.
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Movie Review: The Initiation of Sarah— Kay Lenz's telekinetic nerd surpasses Carrie.
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DVD Review: Crucible of Terror— Oddly compelling British horror film.
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DVD Review: The Dark— Entertaining 1970s Horror Trash.
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DVD Review: Lost Souls, The Blade Runner of Horror— The Communist Vampire reviews horror.
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