Monday, December 28, 2020

REDCAPJACK'S "Year in Horror Reviews, 2020"

This year in horror Reviews. 

10. Impetigore - 

 A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she’s unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years. From the director that brought us Satan's Slaves, Joko Anwar continues to build on his horror resume.

9. Yummy 

 Some days, a nice little gross out zombie movie is just what the doctor ordered. So, heading into a shady Eastern European hospital, our two leads run straight into just that sort of trouble. Allison (Maaike Neuville) and Michael (Bart Hollanders) are looking for breast reduction surgery on the F cup-sized Allison, who is tired of having men ogle her. Her mother is accompanying them and hoping to get some touch-up work for her own beauty needs. There they meet Daniel (Benjamin Ramon) who would really like to show Michael around the hospital (And snatch some pharmaceuticals in the process) while the ladies go under the knife. Then... a zombie gets loose and hilarity ensues.

8. The Mortuary Collection 

A well done and fairly standard Horror Anthology with a stand out performance from Mr. Krabbs himself, Clancy Brown. 

7. Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 

An almost standard Slasher in the woods film is made a little stranger by way of some truly strange scenery and bizarre encounters through the woods. And it is good to know and remember that every country has redneck hillbilly backwood psychopaths running around. 

6. Castle Freak 

 After she’s permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle in rural Albania.And with this remake comes some more blood, guts, and gruesome Lovecraftian nightmares.

5. Ju-On: Origins (I know it's technically a series, but it was good and the series owed me after their theatrical fiasco earlier in the year. What the HELL was that "reboot" supposed to be???) 

  I was pleasantly freaked out throughout most of the runtime- the series begins by stating it is "based on the events that inspired" the original film series. That, on the surface, feels like a load of trash unless you are actually paying attention to the background.

4. VFW 

A stellar cast and some brutal violence makes this one a bit of a stand out in the "siege" horror category. A bit more action for some, but it fits right in there with Night of the Living Dead and Assault on Precinct 13. 

3. Blood Quantum 

 Gory. Brutal.

The title of the film is taken from a Colonial term for the measurement to determine one's indigenous status. In this film the term twists in this zombie film where the members of a distant tribe are rendered immune to the disease, but are quickly overwhelmed by the survivors and the undead both. The Reservation's Sheriff tries to maintain control while his two sons are divided by their approach to the crisis.

2. Underwater 

Surprisingly tight and well done horror film with more than a slight allusion to Lovecraftian monsters. 

1. Color Out of Space 

Insanity, madness, horror, beauty, and surreal existential dread thread it's way through this atmospheric nightmare! The movie opens with adapted text from the original work of Lovecraft, setting the mood with his rhythmic prose and a hauntingly atmospheric wilderness where shadows creep and what little light there is streams in on clear beams that catch the pollen and makes them sparkle like stars in the daylight.

And here are some Honorable Mentions: 

 Tremors Shrieker Island (Beastly Freaks, I know it's cheesy) 

Guns Akimbo (Not, technically, horror) 

Host 

Becky 

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