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  It might seem deranged to wish that a movie like THE BELIEVERS would follow its twisted course until the bitter end, seeing as how the horror at its center is the murder of children as part of a ritualistic Santería sacrifice. But John Schlesinger’s bleak thriller, based on the novel The Religion by Nicholas…

  As far as I can ascertain, the tagline “Their notice was up!” was never used in promoting THE EVICTORS, sadly. Charles B. Pierce’s third film in his “Texarkana horror trilogy” following THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK (1972) and THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976) is a case of reach exceeding grasp, but the effort…

  I’m not here to tell anyone that FROGS(1972) is cinema’s unsung masterpiece, but I also don’t get everyone’s dysfunction when it comes to insisting that it’s a wasteful piece of crap either. Its ecological message may be peripheral at best and it equates suspense to animals being thrown at the cast members–both of them clearly just wanting to…

  Like the plasticized patients that parade through its narrative, AMERICAN MARY (2012), the sophomore effort of twin-sister filmmaking team Jen and Sylvia Soska (DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK), is an amalgam of various parts, weaving together body-horror, rape-revenge, and a dash of romance with surgical thread. The result is a picture that is certainly one of the more…