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Auto Shop of Horrors

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Early on, it appears that Auto Shop of Horrors will be just another on-the-cheap, derivative, sophomoric waste of 77 minutes of life (87 minutes if you include the music video at the end!). But then, just when you least expect it, the movie comes alive with intelligence, wit, originality, and energy, and suddenly you realize that there is more here than meets the eye…and you can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next!

Nah, just kidding. Auto Shop of Horrors is just awful from start to finish…

Click here to read Madison Film Guy’s FULL review of AUTO SHOP OF HORRORS at Horrornews.net!

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Antibirth

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The final image of Antibirth is far and away its most traditionally horrific. It’s a compelling moment:  a sudden burst of visual and narrative crescendo that is startling in contrast to the rest of the movie. And while it may in fact offer a climax to the small, depressing personal story that Antibirth actually is, it also seems to be a teaser for the more fun, expansive movie that traditional horror fans wish Antibirth would have been…

Click here to read Madison Film Guy’s FULL review of Antibirth at Horrornews.net!

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ClownTown

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Clowns are like the special sauce of the horror genre. No matter how undercooked the storyline or overbaked the performances, a generous, heaping helping of crazy, killer clowns will cover up all manner of cinematic sin. Just consider ClownTown, if you will.

Shot in various locations around Ohio in the spring of 2015, director Tom Nagel’s feature debut is full of plot holes, poor dialogue, and unimpressive performances, but once those crazy, evil clowns show up,ClownTown actually becomes a satisfyingly effective little horror film…

Click here to read Madison Film Guy’s FULL review of ClownTown at Horrornews.net!

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Ghosthunters

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Some would say that bad decisions are the stock-in-trade of the horror film. No matter how smart the character or how harrowing the environment, characters in horror movies just can’t help making bad—like really, really bad—decisions. Characters in horror movies ignore ominous warnings that come from beyond the grave. They turn their backs on dangerous threats. They separate when they should stay together. They run up the stairs when they should run out the door. They don’t bother to look for companions who have wandered off and never returned. They follow voices into dark rooms when they definitely should know better. And they never seem to recognize just how much danger they are in…no matter how obvious is actually is.

And at this point I’m just talking about Ghosthunters…

Click here to read Madison Film Guy’s FULL review of GHOSTHUNTERS at Horrornews.net!

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Big Bad

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If you dig Glee and the High School Musical flicks, you just might like Big Bad. If you’re waiting with bated breath for the new seasons of all your favorite Nickelodeon shows, you’ll probably really enjoy Big Bad. And if you’re twelve years old and a fan of overproduced, underacted, and minimally-plotted PG-ish pseudo-horror, then odds are you’ll love Big Bad.

For the rest of you, enter this movie-going experience at your own risk…

Click here to read Madison Film Guy’s FULL review of BIG BAD at Horrornews.net!

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The Rezort

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The Rezort—the 2015 British zombie movie directed by Steve Barker—cannot decide which is worse:  heartless corporate greed and opportunism or liberal crusading and do-gooder-ism. So, both are ultimately depicted with equal derision and disdain. And, more importantly for a film that traffics in undead slaughter and vicious butchery, the personification of each of those dueling societal ills gets their just comeuppance in the end…

Click here to read Madison Film Guy’s FULL review of The Rezort at Horrornews.net!

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The Ones Below

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The Ones Below is a slow burn. No, strike that. The Ones Below is a leisurely, gradual, protracted, dawdling, painstakingly slow burn. In fact, it burns about as slowly as anything could possibly burn. It doesn’t spark, it doesn’t blaze, and it never bursts into flame. But The Ones Below smolders portentously from its opening frames until its final, lingering, heart-breaking shot, and it taps into a fertile thematic well of moral impotency, guilt, and postpartum despair…

Click here to read Madison Film Guy’s FULL review of The Ones Below at Horrornews.net!

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TLMEA

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The depiction of surreal, nightmarish visions has had a long history in world cinema. From the classic German expressionism of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to the experimental giallo traditions of Italian cinema to the somewhat more mainstream horror movies of Cocteau, Lynch, and (relatively speaking) Argento: sustaining the pervasive sensation of nightmare throughout a full-length feature film is a task that even the masters of the genre wrestle with in their finest works. As a result, the purest distillation of nightmare on film tends to be the territory best trafficked by short and experimental film.

And that brings us to TLMEA…

Click here to read Madison Film Guy’s FULL review of TLMEA at Horrornews.net!

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Chubbies

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The process of making a feature length motion picture requires an exceptional amount of time, commitment, and creative energy. Depending on the nature of the movie, there could be a large cast of actors and extras to direct, multiple locations to scout and prepare, a crew of professionals to assemble and deploy, a plot to be mapped out, dialogue to be written, and a whole host of critical technical duties to be performed:  lighting and camera work, sound recording and mixing, editing, special effects, and the list goes on and on. It truly requires a Herculean effort. The hard work and dedication that it takes to make a movie—any movie—deserves and demands at least some measure of respect, recognition, and appreciation.

Unless that movie is Chubbies…

Click here to read Madison Film Guy’s FULL review of Chubbies here at Horrornews.net!

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