7 Days (Les 7 Jours du Talion) (2010)
Studio: Alliance Vivafilm
Director: Daniel Grou
Cast: Rémy Girard, Claude Legault, Fanny Mallette, Martin Dubreuil, Rose-Marie Coallier
Review by: Marc Patterson
I know I’m supposed to be this big, tough horror critic. Throw it at me. I can take anything. Extreme torture or rape? No problem. But the second you drag kids into the equation, I turn into an entirely different animal. When it comes to violence against children in films, I start to the draw the line at what I can …

Saw VI (2009)
Studio: Lionsgate
Directed by: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Costas Mandylor, Peter Outerbridge
Review by: Marc Patterson
The first thing I’d like to do is to clear the air on where I stand with this long running franchise of horror. Simply said, I’m not a fan of the Saw series of films. I’m not dissing them, or pissing on them, or saying that they are bad. Okay. Part four and five were bad. Dreadfully so. But generally, I don’t find these films to be …

by Marc Patterson
This past week several DVD release dates were announced as locked, loaded, and ready to go. Instead of giving each their own special post we figured we might as well includd into one nice little package for you all. Let’s take a look…
Blood Creek:
First up is Blood Creek, which hits DVD this Tuesday, January 19 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Starring Dominic Purcell, Henry Cavill, and Michael Fassbender, the film directed by Joel Schumacher hasn’t gotten much positive criticism, but we can’t weigh in on …

by Marc Patterson
If you caught wind of Ghost House Underground’s Italian shocker The Last House In the Woods you know one thing… it blew chunks. It’s a film I called ‘hardly worth seeking out‘. Not exactly a great lead in to this piece, I know… but something to bear in mind.
From the folks at Bloody-Disgusting.com comes news that Director Gabriele Albanesi is at it again, with a new bit of video nasty called In The Mouth of Ubaldo Terzani. What? That’s a mouthful (no pun intended). …

by Marc Patterson
Okay – BIG DISCLAIMER – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I’m not a huge fan of sharing clips from films. I just think it gives far too much away. However… I’m not a man of steadfast rules either. It goes back to some Buddhist baloney about never sticking to a single thought, or some crap like that. AND I’m this post-punk anarcho kid anyway – so chaos and rule breaking happen to BE the rule.
That said – I will …

Penance (2009)
Studio: IMD Films
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Directed By: Jake Kennedy
Cast: Marieh Delfino, Graham McTavish, Michael Rooker, Garrett Jones & Eve Mauro.
Review By: Annie Riordan
Okay, now what did I JUST say? No. More. Torture Porn Flicks! GodDAMMIT! I can’t take much more gritty snuff film footage and soundtracks consisting solely of agonized screams. Of all the sub-genres that horror has – supernatural, suspenseful, demonic, etc. – can’t Netflix add a new one? You know, something along the lines of Tamp Down Your Bile, or perhaps Scrub Your Brain Out …

The Butcher (2007)
Studio: Vivendi Ent.
DVD Release Date: October 27, 2009
Directed By: Kim Jin-Won
Cast: Kim Sung-Il, You Dong-Hun.
Review By: Annie Riordan
Note to self: No more torture-porn flicks for a very long time.
I’m not entirely sure why I continue to watch the damn things. I’ve never been a huge fan of the genre. Gore for the sake of gore doesn’t interest or impress me. So I’m going to blame this stubborn insistence of mine to continuously expose myself to this sick shit on my ex-boyfriend, a huge fan of hardcore violent …

by  Marc Patterson
An interesting turn came over the weekend for the upcoming Steven Monroe directed remake of I Spit On Your Grave. Moviehole got an exclusive first chat with Monroe on the film, which to our knowledge at this point should have wrapped production. There were a few interesting quotes to emerge from the conversation. One thing that was quickly emphasized was how much Monroe is a big fan of the Meir Zarchi original and that he promises the new film, which will be distributed by Anchor …

Hanger (2009)
Directed by: Ryan Nicholson
Cast: Nathan Dashwood, Debbie Rochon, Dan Ellis, Wade Gibb
DVD Release Date: November 17, 2009
Reviewer: Marc Patterson
Director Ryan Nicholson has a real sharp edge to him, and this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He’s one of the most brutal filmmakers out there in the arena of independent horror, and he does not flinch or shy away from destroying any new boundaries the genre places down. When it comes to utterly sickening, repulsive, and totally vapid filmmaking – Ryan Nicholson is king. That being said, …

Saw VI (2009)
Directed By: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Shawnee Smith, Betsy Russell
Review by: Bryce Holland
Image Courtesy of Steve Wilkie
Well, it’s just about time for Halloween, kids, and you know what that means.
That’s right. Another Saw film has descended upon us.
For the past six years now, the Saw franchise has returned again and again to give movie goers a requisite helping of twisty, convoluted plots, rusty torture mechanisms, and Tobin Bell. Of course, like so many long-running franchises, the series seemed to have succumbed to the curse of diminishing …