INTRODUCTION:

These are the reviews of the horror films that I have seen in the last two decades. The reviews are in my own words and only I represent the opinions and criticisms contained herein. When possible I will comment on as much as possible, time considered. I will certainly be prejudiced to my favorites and also to my most loathed, but I contend that these reviews would hold up in a court of movie law if one existed. If I think it sucked, I will say that I think That it sucked. However I will try to be more intelligent and educated in my criticisms. Hey, sometimes you have to call a pile of crap a pile of crap.

I believe that when you sit down to watch a movie you are giving the artists and filmmakers an hour and a half to two hours of your life. Art is about expression and films are art. No death to the filmmakers who make a bad film, or even multiple bad films, even horribly insulting bad films. But when a title says "Cannibal Holocaust", I want to at least see a little holocaust and at least a decent cannibal. The titles of horror films (mainly imported ones) are less often in the hands of the makers of the film. It is often done as afterthought/marketing angle by the distributor or a brainstorming session of executives and strategists.

Additionally, more reviews will be added weekly so check back to check up on that obscure horror movie before you rent it for 3 or 4 duckets. Or worse, buy it for an over-bloated $20.

I will also look for the salvageable among the hornswaggle. The cream among the crap. I even try to find positives in the worst performances, screenplays and with biting affection for the poorest of direction. I will also strive for the most complete international horror film review database. But give me time. I'm only one horror movie freak among an ocean of horror films (of which a small sea deserves infamy.)

Films will be rated from 1 - 10 skulls. The notoriously bad "Zombies Lake" gets a 1 while the modern masterpeice of horror "John Carpenetr's The Thing" gets 9 skulls.

Films are listed alphabetically regardless of trilogy title, sequels, or otherwise (barring the omittance of 'the', 'an' 'of', etc. at the beginning of a title.) Films are cross referenced for director only for movies that are considered to be horror or a horror sub-genre and encased in parenthesis at the end of the review.

Lastly, comedies, musicals, some sci-fi dealing with a horror theme are also included. This will occasionally bring in some obscure musical or comedy. Do not be alarmed. There is nothing wrong. This is normal.

Something else that will constantly be referred to is sub-genres. Alien-ripoff sub-genre, Haunted House sub-genre, rape/revenge, giallo, TV movie, werewolves, vampires, zombies, Italian Zombies, exploitation, blaxploitation, slasher films, etc. Many films will be included in more than one category such as 'haunted house/exploitation' or 'Ghost/Japanese'. Here is a topical index of some of the more popular sub-genres of what we call "Horror". The films listed in this sub-genre index are some of the staples/innovators of that category.

SLASHER
(halloween, friday the thirteenth, scream, the town that dreaded sundown, the new york ripper, sleepaway camp, night school)

SCIENCE GONE WRONG
(the fly, altered states, the incredible melting man, the invisible man, atom age vampire, piranha, them, the stuff, the hideous sun demon)

GHOST
(the house on haunted hill, the fog, the haunting, ghost story, the sixth sense, beetlejuice, poltergeist)

HAUNTED HOUSE
(the amityville horror, the haunting, house on haunted hill, poltergeist, the haunted, the shining, the fall of house of usher, house, bloodbeat)

DEMONIC POSSESSION
(the exorcist, the house of exorcism, re-possessed, prince of darkness, the omen, the omen 2, the exorcist 3, good against evil, lost souls, exorcism)

VAMPIRE
(dracula, interview with the vampire, the devils, fright nite, dance of the damned, the lost boys, love at first bite, queen of the damned)

ZOMBIE
(night of the living dead, dead alive, dawn of the dead, zombie, return of the living dead, white zombie, day of the dead, shockwaves, shaun of the dead, demons)

ITALIAN ZOMBIE
(zombie, demons, city of the living dead, due occhi diabolici, oasis of the zombies, zombie 2)

NAZI ZOMBIE
(shockwaves, zombies lake, oasis of the dead)

SPANISH ZOMBIE
(return of the blind dead, tombs of the blind dead, horror rises from the grave, voyage of the blind dead)

DRACULA
(dracula, bram stoker's dracula, nosferatu, the curse of dracula, blackula, love at first bite, dracula 2000, dracula A.D. 1979, horror of dracula, shadow of the vampire)

WEREWOLF
(the wolfman, an american werewolf in london, the howling, wolf, curse of the wolfman, i was a teenage werewolf)

FRANKENSTEIN
(frankenstein, bride of frankenstein, rocky horror picture show, the bride, young frankenstein)

SATAN
(the exorcist, rosemary's baby, the omen, the omen 2, prince of darkness, the amityville horror)

HAMMER HORROR
(curse of dracula, the terror, the curse of frankenstein, dr. jekyll & mr hyde)

EXPLOITATION
(house by the lake, i spit on your grave, orgy of the dead, blood sucking freaks)

RAPE/REVENGE
(i spit on your grave, house by the lake/death weekend, mother's day, deliverance, last house on the left, the burning bed)

ANIMAL ATTACK
(the birds, jaws, piranha, kingdom of the spiders, cujo, tarantula, them, squirm, frogs, orca)

BLAXPLOITATION
(blackula, blackenstein,

ASIAN
(ju-on / the grudge, ichi the killer, tomie: replay, wild zero, sisters, wild zero, bio-zombie, the magic cop, junk, stacy)

SERIAL KILLER
(monster, the silence of the lambs, the night stalker, the honeymoon killers, the town that dreaded sundown, henry: portrait of a serial killer)

BACKWOODS CHAMBER OF HORROR
(texas chainsaw massacre, house of 1000 corpses, american gothic, the hills have eyes)

ALIEN MONSTER
(alien, alien 3, they live, invasion of the body snatchers, day of the triffids, war of the worlds, contamination)

EROTIC HORROR
(shivers, andy warhol's frankenstein, orgy of the dead, rocky horror picture show, videodrome)

MUSICAL
(rocky horror picture show, cannibal the musical, thriller, nightmare before christmas, the little shop of horrors)

PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
(psycho, basic instinct, night watch, the astronaut's wife)

HORROR COMEDY
(scary movie, shaun of the dead, teenwolf, re-possessed, young frankenstein, i married a witch, cannibal the musical, the burbs, beetlejuice)

DOCUMENTARY
(helter skelter, texas chainsaw massacre family portrait, curse of the blair witch, aileen wournos: the 2002 interview, american movie)

JOHN CARPENTER
(halloween, the thing, the prince of darkness, they live, the eyes of laura mars, the fog, in the mouth of madness, vampire bats, the ghosts of mars, children of the damned)

STEPHEN KING
(carrie, christine, the shining, misery, cujo, pet cemetary, maximum over-drive, silver bullet, creepshow, the stand, it, children of the corn, the langoliers, firestarter, the dead zone, thinner, needful things, night shift, cats eye, the mangler)

REMAKES
(dawn of the dead, invasion of the body snatchers, the thing, night of the living dead, king kong, the fly)

INCLUDED BY ASSOCIATION
(glen or glenda, the ninth configuration, the burning bed, aileen wournos: the 2002 interview, stand by me)

WES CRAVEN
(last house on the left, nightmare on elm street 1, 2, 3, 4, scream, the serpent and the rainbow, they, the people under the stairs, deadly friend, stranger in our house, shocker, chiller, the hills have eyes)

UNIVERSAL MONSTERS
(dracula, the wolfman, the mummy, frankenstein, creature from the black lagoon, the bride of frankenstein, thephantom of the opera, frankenstein meets the wolfman, curse of the wolfman)

MONSTER VS MONSTER
(frankenstein vs the wolfman, jason vs freddie, billy the kid vs dracula, werewolf vs the vampie woman)

WITCHCRAFT
(the blair witch project, i married a witch, suspiria, the dunwich horror)

With this being said on to the A-Z HORROR MOVIE REVIEW DATABASE.