Saw II (2005)

The Jigsaw killer is back and only Detective Donnie Wahlberg can stop him. The movie opens with a guy falling victim to a Jigsaw game. The detective is called in to identify the body and becomes much more involved in the investigation. They catch Jigsaw, but it's never that easy and a new game begins with the detective's son and a group of people…

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XX (2017)

Horror anthology movies are still alive and well. While this is nowhere near as good as Creepshow or Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, it does have its moments. Of the four, I liked the third one the best. It was called "Don't Fall" and involved a group of campers who find some cave paintings that serve as a warning. One of the friends becomes possessed…

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Saw (2004)

This is the movie that revitalized the horror genre in the early 2000s and launched a new franchise that has, so far, spanned eight films. Two dudes wake up in a nasty bathroom chained to opposite ends of the room. It is revealed that some sick individual has kidnapped and placed them in this room as a kind of twisted game. One of the…

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Cabin Fever (2002)

A group of college kids decides to take a nice little break from the college grind by going to a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Little do they know that an infectious disease is starting to spread in the area and shit's about to get real ugly. This is Eli Roth's first movie and while this seems like an obvious premise that has…

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Final Destination 2 (2003)

Death, uh, finds a way... Why couldn't they get Jeff Goldblum to be in these movies? Then at least there would be one thing worth watching. A year after the events of the first movie, a girl named Kimberly has a premonition about a bad highway accident and manages to escape the mayhem unharmed along with a bunch of motorists who never made it…

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

It was the late 90s and teen horror movies were super popular. It all started with Scream and just kept growing. Like Scream, this movie was also written by the teen horror master, Kevin Williamson. The main cast consists of Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr, and Ryan Phillippe. The movie starts with the four kids having fun and making bad decisions. As…

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Idle Hands (1999)

This is teen horror comedy at its best. Devon Sawa plays stoner/slacker/dumbass Anton Tobias. His parents are brutally murdered on Halloween... [spoiler] by Anton's hand. It is revealed that his hand is the murderer when he also offs his best friends played by Seth Green and Elden Henson, who return from the grave as zombie bros. Jessica Alba rounds out the cast as the love…

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Phantoms (1998)

Based on a shitty novel by Dean Koontz, this horror thriller features an all star cast and little else. The story is bland and derivative. Like every other Invasion of the Body Snatchers or alien takeover movie, there is not a single thing this one tries to do differently. Peter O'Toole, Ben Affleck, Rose McGowan, and Liev Schreiber are the A-ish list cast that really…

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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews), the kid who has been fighting Jason Voorhees since he was a young boy, is back as an adult. The movie starts with Tommy and his friend going to destroy whatever remains of Jason's body at a cemetery, but a lightning strike resurrects Jason and we have ourselves a horror sequel. Tommy tries to warn everyone that Jason is back,…

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Near Dark (1987)

This is one of those cult classic vampire movies that always hides just under the radar. The plot centers around Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) whose life changes forever after an encounter with a seductive lady named Mae. She turns him into a vampire and his assimilation with her vampire posse is troublesome when he won't kill to drink the sweet nectar of the veins. Eventually,…

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