Film Reviews

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Personal and affectionate appraisals, old and new, of every horror movie the Keeper can cram in his toploader. Constantly updating, with all manner of revised editions and reappraisals appearing on a regular basis, the aim is only ever to enlighten. Feel free to delve in and take your fill.

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1 The Burning
2 Madman
3 The Prowler
4 Dawn of the Dead (1978)
5 Day of the Dead (1985)
6 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
7 Suspiria
8 Creepshow
9 Night of the Creeps
10 Xtro
11 The Thing (1982)
12 The Thing (2011)
13 The Fog (1980)
14 Halloween III: Season of the Witch
15 Drive
16 Treevenge
17 Sweatshop
18 Cat People (1982)
19 Shaun of the Dead
20 The Shining (1980)
21 Vamp
22 The Last House on the Left (1972)
23 My Bloody Valentine (2009)
24 The Horror Show aka House III
25 The Matrix
26 Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye
27 Prophecy (1979)
28 Friday the 13th (1980)
29 Piranha (1978)
30 Jason X
31 House of Wax (2005)
32 Demons
33 American Psycho
34 Psycho II
35 Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter
36 Aliens
37 Stagefright (1987)
38 Amityville II: The Possession
39 High Tension
40 Unhinged
41 The Descent
42 The Blair Witch Project
43 The House of The Devil
44 Kolobos
45 Chromeskull: Laid To Rest 2
46 Hostel Part II
47 Creepshow 2
48 Blood Runs Cold
49 Body Count
50 American Beauty
51 A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
52 The Return of the Living Dead
53 The Omen (1976)
54 Bad Taste
55 Braindead (1992)
56 Escape from New York
57 Drag Me to Hell
58 The House on Sorority Row
59 Superstition
60 Halloween II
61 The Evil Dead (1981)
62 Zombie Flesh Eaters
63 Halloween Resurrection
64 The Redsin Tower
65 Pulp Fiction
66 Poltergeist (1982)
67 Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
68 The Howling
69 Carrie (1976)
70 Evil Dead (2013)
71 Zombieland
72 Fight Club
73 Maniac (2012)
74 The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
75 My Bloody Valentine (1981)
76 Wrong Turn
77 Child’s Play
78 Equilibrium
79 A Bay of Blood
80 The Driller Killer
81 Final Destination
82 Society
83 Troll 2
84 Re-Animator
85 An American Werewolf in London
86 Dawn of the Dead (2004)
87 Event Horizon
88 Garden State
89 Intruder
90 Happy Birthday to Me
91 The Terminator
92 Maniac (1980)
93 Nightmares in a Damaged Brain
94 April Fools Day (1986)
95 Texas Chainsaw 3D
96 When a Stranger Calls (1979)
97 Inferno
98 Murder Loves Killers Too
99 Hatchet II
100 The ABCs of Death
101 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
102 [REC]
103 Friday the 13th (2009)
104 Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
105 Grave Encounters
106 …of Tortured Faustian Slumbers
107 The Pack
108 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
109 Laid to Rest
110 Hellraiser
111 Race with The Devil
112 Shock Waves
113 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
114 Scream
115 Just Before Dawn
116 Evil Dead II
117 Dog Soldiers
118 Black Swan
119 The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1984)
120 After Hours
121 The Hitcher (1986)
122 Jaws
123 Bikini Girls on Ice
124 Piranha (2010)
125 The Orphan Killer
126 Freddy vs. Jason
127 Them
128 Halloween (2007)
129 My Little Eye
130 Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
131 Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows
132 Hatchet III
133 V/H/S/2
134 Fist of Jesus
135 Halloween (1978)
136 This Is The End
137 Doghouse
138 The Last Exorcism Parts I & II
139 Alien³
140 Hollow
141 Wither
142 The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine
143 Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
144 Murder Set Pieces
145 Red State
146 House of 1000 Corpses
147 The Devil’s Rejects
148 The Conjuring
149 The Hills Run Red
150 The Lords of Salem
151 Curse of Chucky
152 Faust: Love of The Damned
153 Dagon
154 Iowa
155 Gutterballs
156 Kids Go To The Woods…Kids Get Dead
157 You’re Next
158 Hansel & Gretel Get Baked
159 Girls Gone Dead
160 Stitches
161 No Tell Motel
162 Scary or Die
163 Thanatomorphose
164 You Can’t Kill Stephen King
165 The Theatre Bizarre
166 The Wolf of Wall Street
167 The Lost Boys
168 Silent Night
169 Sorority House Massacre Trilogy
170 Under The Bed
171 Harpoon: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre
172 Smiley
173 The Deadly Spawn
174 Sick Girl (2007)
175 Zombie Strippers
176 American Mary
177 The Sleeper
178 Berberian Sound Studio
179 The Cabin in The Woods
180 Six Feet Under
181 Martyrs (2008)
182 The Loved Ones
183 Slasher House
184 Humains
185 [REC]3 Genesis
186 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
187 Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
188 The Depraved
189 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
190 The Divide
191 Antisocial
192 Knock Knock (2007)
193 Baghead
194 Underground
195 The Mist
196 Pontypool
197 Inbred
198 Daybreakers
199 Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
200 The Exorcist
201 Insidious
202 This Is 40
203 Do The Right Thing
204 Sinister
205 Silent Hill
206 Project X (2012)
207 Tenebrae
208 The Thaw
209 The Purge
210 Insidious: Chapter 2
211 The Entity
212 The Changeling
213 Primal
214 Shivers
215 Rabid
216 Only God Forgives
217 Triangle
218 The Ward
219 Amusement
220 Stake Land
221 The Fly (1986)
222 Galaxy of Terror
223 Predators
224 Lifeforce
225 The Big Lebowski
226 Inside
227 Feast III: The Happy Finish
228 Alien Raiders
229 Creature (2011)
230 Livid
231 The Fourth Kind
232 A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
233 The Innkeepers
234 The Midnight Meat Train
235 Candyman
236 Friday the 13th Part 2
237 The Crazies (2010)
238 The World’s End
239 Prometheus
240 Babysitter Wanted
241 Dead Girl
242 Pandorum
243 Scar
244 Mirrors
245 Return of the Living Dead 3
246 Dead Silence
247 Joyride
248 Antichrist
249 Cold Prey: Resurrection
250 Alien
251 Ringu
252 Shark Night
253 Hotel Inferno
254 The Sacrament
255 Camp Dread
256 Dance of the Dead
257 Pieces
258 Trick or Treat (1986)
259 Don’t Go in The House
260 Anthropophagus: The Beast
261 Silent Rage
262 Bordello of Blood
263 Prison
264 ATM
265 Titan Find
266 Carver
267 The Collector
268 L.A. Story
269 The Tripper
270 Get Him to The Greek
271 Trailer Park of Terror
272 I Love You, Man
273 Scream 4
274 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
275 Alien: Resurrection
276 The Woman
277 Better Off Dead
278 Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
279 Trick ‘r Treat
280 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
281 Halloween II (2009)
282 Gremlins
283 High Fidelity
284 Maximum Overdrive
285 Sleepwalkers
286 The Orphanage
287 Children of The Corn (1984)
288 All Hallow’s Eve
289 Devil’s Pass
290 Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
291 Carrie (2013)
292 A Scanner Darkly
293 Campfire Tales (1997)
294 Little Deaths
295 Movie 43
296 Jenifer
297 Odd Thomas
298 Red Eye
299 P2
300 Bound
301 The Taking of Deborah Logan
302 See No Evil 2
303 The Collection
304 Snake With a Human Tail
305 Alone
306 Martin
307 Cockneys vs Zombies
308 Stage Fright (2014)
309 The Damned
310 All Cheerleaders Die
311 A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
312 The Exorcist III
313 Dark Floors
314 Dead End
315 Excision (2012)
316 Videodrome
317 Mother’s Day (2010)
318 Outpost: Black Sun
319 The Wizard of Gore (2007)
320 Book of Blood
321 Lovely Molly
322 Basket Case
323 If I Stay
324 6 Souls
325 The Boogey Man (1980)
326 Annabelle
327 No One Lives
328 As Above, So Below
329 The Beyond
330 The Babadook
331 Evilspeak
332 Wind Chill
333 Fright Night (2011)
334 Dead Snow
335 Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
336 Absurd
337 Manhunt (2008)
338 Quarantine 2: Terminal
339 Wolf Creek 2
340 Hostel
341 Crash (1996)
342 Demons 2
343 Salvage (2009)
344 Brain Damage
345 Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
346 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
347 The Blob (1988)
348 Cabin Fever: Patient Zero
349 Boogeyman 3
350 The Darkness of Strangers
351 Graduation Day
352 Cannibal Holocaust
353 Aftershock (2012)
354 Island of Death
355 I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
356 A Horrible Way To Die
357 Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood
358 Friday The 13th Part III
359 Night of The Comet
360 Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
361 Phantasm
362 John Dies at The End
363 Bad Dreams
364 Dreamscape
365 They Live
366 Army of Darkness
367 The Misfit Words
368 The People Under the Stairs
369 Shocker
370 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
371 Prince of Darkness
372 The Serpent and the Rainbow
373 Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror
374 Blood Feast
375 Chopping Mall
376 Night of The Demons (1988)
377 City of The Living Dead
378 The House By The Cemetery
379 Fright Night (1985)
380 Near Dark
381 The Company of Wolves
382 Paperhouse
383 Possession (1981)
384 Deep Red
385 Crawl or Die
386 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
387 From Beyond
388 Attack The Block
389 Deep Blue Sea
390 Urban Legend
391 Painkiller (2014)
392 The Minions
393 The Toolbox Murders (1978)
394 Toolbox Murders (2004)
395 Killer Klowns From Outer Space
396 TerrorVision
397 Scanners
398 Visiting Hours
399 House (1986)
400 The 40 Year-Old Virgin
401 Showgirls
402 From Beyond The Grave
403 The Stuff
404 Identity
405 Contamination
406 Prom Night (1980)
407 Forbidden World
408 Inseminoid
409 Damien: Omen II
410 Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
411 Blood Simple.
412 Killer Joe
413 The Beast Within
414 C.H.U.D.
415 The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
416 The Last House on The Left (2009)
417 Return of the Living Dead II
418 Zombie Ass: Toilet of The Dead
419 The Long Island Serial Killer
420 Waxwork
421 Anguish
422 Pet Sematary
423 Pumpkinhead
424 The Final Terror
425 Girl House
426 The Strangers
427 The Hunger
428 The Guardian (1990)
429 The Ruins
430 Altered States
431 Two Evil Eyes
432 Child’s Play 2
433 28 Days Later
434 Cabin Fever (2002)
435 Planet Terror
436 Death Proof
437 From Dusk Till Dawn
438 Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
439 ABCs of Death 2
440 Machete Kills
441 Smiley Face
442 A Fantastic Fear of Everything
443 The Matrix Reloaded
444 Dogma
445 Boogie Nights
446 Enter The Void
447 Mulholland Drive
448 Boyz ‘n The Hood
449 Fish Tank
450 Mad Max: Fury Road
451 It Follows
452 Edge of Tomorrow
453 Nurse 3D
454 Muck
455 Charlie’s Farm
456 Torso
457 Amsterdamned
458 Clown
459 Zombeavers
460 Nymph
461 Drive Angry
462 Crimson Peak
463 V/H/S/Viral
464 Trauma (1993)
465 Mother of Tears
466 Don’t Look Now
467 The Brood
468 Wyrmwood: Road of The Dead
469 World War Z
470 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
471 Deep Cover
472 Ex Machina
473 Turbo Kid
474 Curtains
475 The Initiation
476 Discopath
477 Deathgasm
478 Found
479 Spring Breakers
480 The Orphan Killer: Bound X Blood
481 A Blade in The Dark
482 Eaten Alive (1976)
483 The New York Ripper
484 Tourist Trap
485 Knock Knock (2015)
486 Dellamorte Dellamore
487 Starry Eyes
488 Innocent Blood
489 10 To Midnight
490 Strange Days
491 Four Flies on Grey Velvet
492 Looker
493 Body Double
494 The Fury
495 Phantom of The Paradise
496 Blow Out
497 Straight Outta Compton
498 Timecrimes
499 Sexy Killer
500 The 6th Day/Surrogates
501 Hobo with a Shotgun
502 Blood Rage (1987)
503 We Are Still Here
504 A Christmas Horror Story
505 All Hallow’s Eve 2
506 [REC]4: Apocalypse
507 The Slumber Party Massacre
508 Hospital Massacre
509 Burying The Ex
510 The Last Horror Film
511 Dressed To Kill
512 Flesh For Frankenstein
513 Road Games
514 Argento’s Dracula
515 Opera
516 The Sect
517 Humanoids From The Deep (1980)
518 Squirm
519 Mother’s Day (1980)
520 Slaughterhouse
521 Demon Seed
522 White of The Eye
523 A Cat in The Brain
524 Spring
525 Tales of Halloween
526 A Serbian Film
527 The Green Inferno
528 Motel Hell
529 Blood and Black Lace
530 Big Ass Spider!
531 Blood Tracks
532 Class of Nuke ’em High
533 The Mutilator
534 Nightmare City
535 Murder Rock
536 Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1978)
537 Ghost Story
538 The Sentinel
539 The Believers
540 Christmas Evil
541 Vampire’s Kiss
542 Don’t Torture a Duckling
543 The Gravedancers
544 Silent Night, Deadly Night
545 The Exterminator
546 Hatchet
547 To Live and Die in L.A.
548 Sorcerer
549 In The Mouth of Madness
550 Castle Freak
551 The Dead Pool
552 Cruising
553 Eastern Promises
554 Edmond
555 Sleepless
556 Giallo
557 Maniac Cop Trilogy
558 In Bruges
559 Love
560 Nightcrawler
561 Scarface (1983)
562 Bad Acid
563 Predestination
564 eXistenZ
565 Cosmopolis
566 Horns
567 Basic Instinct
568 RoboCop
569 Sunshine
570 Jackie Brown
571 Django Unchained
572 The Grey
573 Leaving Las Vegas
574 Deadpool (2016)
575 The Rules of Attraction
576 Very Bad Things
577 Sucker Punch
578 Hush (2016)
579 Slither
580 Pineapple Express
581 Eyes Wide Shut
582 The Forest (2016)
583 The Gift (2015)
584 Sleep Tight
585 He Never Died
586 Holidays
587 Alyce
588 Blade Runner
589 Romeo’s Distress
590 The Jacket
591 A History of Violence
592 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
593 The Hateful Eight
594 Interstellar
595 Hollow Man
596 The Thin Red Line
597 Ava’s Possessions
598 Apple Tree Yard
599 The Invitation
600 Sin City/Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
601 Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
602 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
603 Insidious: Chapter 3
604 1408
605 The Last Days on Mars
606 Oculus
607 Honeymoon (2014)
608 Split
609 Hellbound: Hellraiser II
610 Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
611 Hellraiser: Bloodline
612 Hellraiser: Inferno
613 The Canal
614 Don’t Breathe
615 Conjuring, The 2
616 Lights Out
617 Nerve
618 Irréversible
619 Paranormal Activity 2
620 The Hallow
621 Dark City
622 Digging Up The Marrow
623 Hot Fuzz
624 Stephen King’s It (1990)
625 Bram Stoker’s Dracula
626 The Final Girls
627 Watchmen
628 Life
629 Inherent Vice
630 Highlander
631 Something Wild
632 Cannibal Ferox
633 Queen of the Damned
634 Subspecies
635 The Night Before
636 Krampus
637 Alien: Covenant
638 Hardware
639 A Clockwork Orange
640 Get Out
641 3 Dead Girls!
642 Herschell Gordon Lewis’ BloodMania
643 Creepshow 3
644 Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
645 Black Christmas (1974)/Black Christmas (2006)
646 Sausage Party
647 Raw
648 Dreaming Purple Neon
649 Ginger Snaps
650 Anarchy Parlor
651 The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
652 Last Shift
653 Burn (2017)
654 Knightriders
655 Hellraiser: Hellseeker
656 Hellraiser: Deader
657 Hellraiser: Hellworld
658 Blair Witch (2016)
659 Under The Skin
660 Tulpa
661 Amer
662 The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
663 The Neon Demon
664 Lost in Translation
665 Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
666 Ash vs. Evil Dead – Season 1
667 Spun
668 The Love Witch
669 The Before Trilogy (1995-2013)
670 The Bad Batch
671 Nina Forever
672 Southbound
673 Uzumaki
674 The Borderlands (2013)
675 The Fog (2005)
676 Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2
677 Would You Rather
678 Donnie Darko
679 Southland Tales
680 Train To Busan
681 Martrys (2015)
682 Red, White & Blue
683 Frontier(s)
684 John Wick: Chapter 2
685 Ghoulies
686 Cooties
687 Howling II
688 Howling III
689 Deadtime Stories (1986)
690 Straw Dogs (2011)
691 Offer, The
692 Birdemic: Shock and Terror
693 Murder Party
694 Green Room
695 Fortress
696 Trancers
697 Demonic Toys
698 Puppetmaster
699 The Interview
700 Requiem For a Dream
701 Repo Man
702 Pretty in Pink
703 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
704 The Witch (2015)
705 Mama
706 Poltergeist (2015)
707 Ænigma
708 Piranha II: The Spawning
709 The Dorm That Dripped Blood
710 The Nest
711 Neon Maniacs
712 Dreamcatcher
713 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
714 Alien 2: On Earth
715 The Greasy Strangler
716 Death Ship
717 Ghost Ship (2002)
718 Slugs
719 What We Do in the Shadows
720 Hardcore Henry
721 Satan’s Blade
722 Saturday Night Fever/Staying Alive
723 The Incredible Melting Man
724 Street Trash
725 Dead End Drive-In
726 Land of The Dead
727 Frankenhooker
728 Bride of Re-Animator
729 The Lawnmower Man
730 Beyond the Gates
731 Bastard
732 Deadly Blessing
733 The Church
734 Beyond The Darkness
735 31
736 The Void
737 Antibirth
738 Diary of the Dead
739 Starship Troopers
740 The Neighbor
741 All Through the House
742 Blue Ruin
743 Tusk
744 Frantic
745 Wild at Heart
746 Lost Highway
747 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
748 The Windmill Massacre
749 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
750 Big Trouble in Little China
751 Into The Night
752 The Sender
753 Toolbox Murders 2
754 Dead Hooker in a Trunk
755 Spookies
756 Grabbers
757 Contracted
758 Contracted: Phase II
759 Rites of Spring
760 Stand by Me
761 Death Warmed Up
762 Venom (1981)
763 I Know Who Killed Me
764 Her
765 Raze
766 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
767 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
768 Nail Gun Massacre
769 High Lane
770 Macabre
771 Body Puzzle
772 Rogue
773 Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
774 Sorority Row
775 Bloodbath at the House of Death
776 Hostel Part III
777 Madhouse (1981)
778 Bloody Moon
779 Prevenge
780 Terror Train
781 Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
782 The Visitor
783 Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have The Key
784 Phantasm II
785 Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
786 Phantasm IV: Oblivion
787 Rawhead Rex
788 Foxy Brown
789 Evil Ed
790 The Game
791 Nightmares (1983)
792 The Slayer
793 Dust Devil
794 Legend
795 Lord of Illusions
796 Howl
797 Survival of the Dead
798 Night of the Living Dead (1968)
799 Cannibal Apocalypse
800 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
801 American Psycho 2
802 Monster Dog
803 Kung Fury
804 Dracula Untold
805 Saw
806 The Queen’s Gambit