The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Oct 9, 2006Backwoods Brutality
The first sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre where Tobe Hooper returns and pushes the series into an outrageously black sense of humour
Bill Moseley
Silent Night, Deadly Night III: You Better Watch Out! (1989)
Dec 24, 2019Christmas Slasher Film/Resurrected Killer
The third in the Christmas slasher series where the killer's brother is resurrected like a Frankenstein monster and develops an obsession with a blind girl. Played with far more seriousness than it deserves
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Dec 3, 2000Zombies
George Romero produces a remake of his groundbreaking zombie film. This adheres closely to the original but manages to modernise it in interesting ways
Crash and Burn (1990)
Jun 2, 2002Killer Android
Charles Band film that gives the impression it is a Transformers-type film. While a Transformer does appear in a few scenes, this settles down to be more of a killer android whodunit.
Army of Darkness (1992)
Jun 5, 2000Evil Dead Sequel/War with the Dead/Horror Comedy
Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell make their third Evil Dead film. The series hit a peak with the delirious balance of horror and comedy in the second film but here the comedy over-balances and becomes too broad
The Convent (2000)
Nov 4, 2000Splatter Comedy/Zombie Nuns
Early Mike Mendez film that quickly abandons being a standard venture into a haunted convent and launches into an entertainingly over-the-top splatter show filled with zombified nuns
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Jun 1, 2004Backroads Brutality
Rob Zombie’s debut film was propelled into an infamy it didn’t deserve it was banned by its distributor. Zombie only slavishly rehashes The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with a constant posturing for shock effect that becomes tiresome
The Devil’s Rejects (2005)
Nov 13, 2005Family of Psychos
Rob Zombie's sequel to House of 1000 Corpses and a more polished film, probably Zombie's best. On the other hand, Zombie's nihilistic worldview and sympathy for the psychopaths does take one aback.
Thr3e (2006)
Feb 28, 2023Christian Serial Killer Thriller
Quite evidently modelled on Se7en even to the lookalike title, this is the novelty of a Christian serial killer thriller. The results are quite strange to say the least
Evil Bong (2006)
Jun 9, 2020Demonic Marijuana Bong
From Charles Band, this features a possessed marijuana bong that sucks those that imbibe inside into the simulation of a stripper bar where they lose their souls. Several sequels followed.
Home Sick (2007)
Jan 4, 2024Various Killings
The first film from Adam Wingard from which it is hard to guess he would be a major director. This is a very amateurish work, nevertheless comes with an undeniable enthusiasm for the genre
The Alphabet Killer (2008)
Aug 7, 2011Search for a True-Life Serial Killer
This claims to be based on an unsolved true-life serial killer case from the 1970s, although dumps all but a handful of facts in favour of a B-movie thriller plot about a detective with mental illness
Repo: The Genetic Opera (2008)
Jan 8, 2013Future Organ Repossession/Rock Musical
Saw series director Darren Lynn Bousman conducts a futuristic Gothic rock opera. A film of constant posturings where Bousman demonstrates remarkably little affinity for either music or sf … a musical that feels made by people who are tone deaf
Dead Air (2009)
Aug 14, 2014Zombie Outbreak
Madness/zombie outbreak film set in a radio station as a talkback host watches the catastrophe unfurl outside. This only cheaply goes where the far superior Pontypool did first
The Devil’s Tomb (2009)
Apr 17, 2025Tomb of Evil Forces
Jason Connery directs a film that draws upon the basics of The Keep about soldiers venturing into a tomb in Iraq where they awaken a great evil housed there
Godkiller: Walk Among Us (2010)
Jan 7, 2014Animation/Gods in a Burned-Out Future
An ‘illustrated film' - essentially comic-book panels with voiceover narration. The story about gods inhabiting a burned-out future is far more ambitious than can be crammed into the film
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)
Sep 3, 2014Splatter/Southern Town of Maniacs
Sequel to the outrageously gory 2001 Maniacs, although here the horror comedy balance spills over into absurd farce and cheap gore effects. Crucially, the film seems cheaper and less polished, more messy and random in terms of its arrangements
The Tortured (2010)
Jun 30, 2012Couple Torture Paedophile
A couple abduct and torture a paedophile who killed their son. Hard to tell if this is an edgy out-there film or the most tasteless concept that Torture Porn cinema has tried so far. Alas, a banal tv movie handling kills any possibility of the former
Exit Humanity (2011)
Mar 1, 2013American Civil War Zombie Film
Modestly effective zombie film set during the US Civil War. This eschews the usual gore-drenched zombie attacks in favour of a nicely achieved story about one man's internal journey through the apocalypse
The Devil’s Carnival (2012)
Sep 17, 2019Carnival for Damned Souls in Hell
Darren Lynn Bousman, the director best known for the Saw sequels, makes a musical about a circus set in Hell through which three damned souls pass, enacting updated versions of various of Aesop's Fables
Rogue River (2012)
Mar 11, 2021Imprisonment Thriller
Imprisonment thriller where a woman finds herself confined by deranged husband and wife Bill Moseley and Lucinda Jenney
Texas Chainsaw (2013)
Jan 11, 2013Backwoods Brutality
A Texas Chainsaw sequel in 3D with chainsaws and gore coming out at the screen seems the complete antithesis of the raw savagery of the original. The result is like a formulaic modern slasher, while the film is wrecked by a ridiculous reversal of sympathies in the last half
Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival (2016)
Dec 8, 2022War Between Heaven and Hell Rock Musical
Saw series director Darren Lynn Bousman makes a rock musical about a war between a gaudily exotic Heaven and Hell. A full-length expansion of Bousman's earlier short film
The Horde (2016)
Jul 18, 2024Backwoods Brutality
A Backwoods Brutality film that becomes quite gore-drenched. Written by its leading man Paul Logan who casts himself as a perfect action hero wading in to kick hillbilly ass
Death House (2017)
Jun 30, 2019Asylum of Insane Killers Unleashed
This comes with the winning idea of being conceived as a horror version of The Expendables bringing back an amazing line-up of horror actors from principally the 80s. Alas, the film itself as an incoherent mess
3 from Hell (2019)
Oct 20, 2019Family of Psychos
Rob Zombie is back,, making the third in his trilogy of Firefly films following House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. It is all fairly much the same as before where Zombie's sympathies are cleanly with the family of psychopaths and their murderous rampage.
In Search of Darkness: A Journey Into Iconic ‘80s Horror (2019)
Jul 11, 2020Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film
An exhaustive documentary that charts in enormous detail every facet of the 1980s horror film, although this is not as exhaustive as it seems to think and leaves some big omissions
To Your Last Death (2019)
Nov 20, 2020Animation/Brutal Survival in an Office Building/Alien Game
Animated film that is gore-drenched and certainly not for children. Imagine The Belko Experiment conceived as a videogame where the heroine has to survive an office of people trying to kill her while aliens bet on the outcome
In Search of Darkness II: A Journey Into ’80s Horror Continues (2020)
May 6, 2024Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film
A follow-up to the documentary about the 1980s horror film, this deals with some of the lesser-known and overlooked works that were not covered the first time around
Exorcism at 60,000 Feet (2020)
Jul 31, 2020Exorcism on an Airplane/Bad Taste Comedy
A possession film set on an airplane. This sets out to parody exorcism movie cliches but makes a beeline for outrageous bad taste humour. It does include a great cast of genre regulars
Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
Sep 24, 2021Gonzo Post-Apocalyptic Film
Nicolas Cage’s career choices in recent years have taken him into serious psychotronic headspace. Shion Sono is a director whose film's inhabit demented territory. It seemed inevitable that the two should meet up on screen
The History of Metal and Horror (2022)
Aug 26, 2024Horror and Heavy Metal Documentary
A documentary that explores the intersection between heavy metal music and horror and the frequently intertwined relationship of the two
Natty Knocks (2023)
Oct 30, 2024Halloween Horror
A Halloween horror from a director with a reasonable genre association, this establishes its genre bona fides but then shoots itself in the foot