V/H/S/2

Horror anthology scares up few thrills.

"...the weakest link in the bunch. V/H/S/2 is for gore hounds exclusively...."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

The titular siblings turn bounty hunters after a traumatic childhood incident with an oven.

"...squishy with spattering brains and other sundry occasions for gore, the scares are few and far between, and its..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Man With the Iron Fists

Wu-Tang Clan firebrand RZA branches out into directing a martial arts film.

"...gets (and vice versa), and copious amounts of CGI gore splatter everything in sight. Why was this not presented..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Coriolanus

Ralph Fiennes directs this terrific contemporary update of Shakespeare's timeless play about war.

"...Immensely entertaining, Coriolanus is chock-full o' gore and the contemporary trappings of a man and a..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Underworld: Awakening

When humans sniff out the existence of vampires and Lycans, all hell breaks loose.

"...plotting. Not so much. Underworld: Awakening is squishy with gore, yes, but rather starved of topics of interest. There..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Trailers From Hell

Local horror stars start building their buzz

"...Marc Savlov's bloodflecked dismantling of the Austin horror scene, Full-Gore Press, then start chopping. Most of those films are..."

Dec. 26, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Conan the Barbarian

Robert E. Howard's iconic Conan the Barbarian has been resurrected for a new generation, but our hearts belong to Ahnold.

"...testosterone orgy and provides gallons upon gallons of CGI gore and Frank Frazetta-esque backgrounds but precious little of the..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Battle: Los Angeles

Aliens fight the U.S. Marines in a gritty urban war. Viewers are the losers.

"...seen in Black Hawk Down. It gets points for (gore-free) realism – the effects work is top notch; you'd..."

March 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monsters

In this startlingly original indie film, a road trip combines with an alien invasion to remind us of our ageless fear of otherness.

"...is ruthlessly effective at teasing suspense while forgoing the shock-and-awe-and-goopy-gore so common to contemporary monster movies. Well, maybe not..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

Romero revivifies even more zombies with this new picture, but now the filmmaker depicts humankind as hardly worth saving.

"...of which there is much, and truly crappy CGI gore, of which there is even more, Survival of the..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hausu (House)

This 1977 Japanese film is a surreal, indefinable piece of horror/comedy, a must-see film for lovers of the inscrutable, the grotesque, the funky, and the eccentric.

"...the time), on Dada (dance numbers!) mixed with crimson gore, eerie animation that can only be described as unbalanced..."

May 21, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Coprophiliacs looking for a movie that really rings their chimes will be positively tintinnabulating from this arthouse horror number.

"...watch, even though there is very little bloodletting and gore. Director Six seems to positively revel in his film’s..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kick-Ass

Everyone's a superhero these days, and this film based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s comic book series takes that concept to the Nth degree.

"...the face and neck with wildly over-the-top fountains of gore, bone-cracking slow-motion, and, yes, Cage, who dials his acting..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pandorum

Two crew members wake up aboard a spaceship with no knowledge of their identities or their mission in this horror/science-fiction amalgam.

"...and dull direction, even the eventual crimson tide of gore that duly arrives just in time to keep audience..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Punisher: War Zone

Marvel Comics' Frank Castle again comes to the screen as a one-man vengeance machine in this stylishly violent and gory opus.

"...strand of his perfectly slicked-back hair. The blood and gore quotients of Punisher: War Zone are extremely high and..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Quarantine

An L.A. apartment building is quarantined in this new horror film, and a news crew's videotape may be the only proof of the strange goings-on.

"...and Carpenter's breathless, panic-attacky hysterics (and some unnervingly realistic gore effects), Quarantine is a one-note nightmare, nicely pitched to..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fly Me to the Moon

This animated film is a simple parable of spirited can-do-ism, in which a trio of young houseflies semiaccidentally tags along on the Apollo 11 moon shot.

"...trio of young houseflies (voiced by Gagnon, Bolden, and Gore) semiaccidentally tags along with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins,..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Happening

In M. Night Shyamalan's mystery spooker, logic-defying episodes of death and destruction suddenly erupt across America.

"...film's apocalyptic, Mother Nature-in-revolt scenario feels like something Al Gore might've cooked up during a mescaline-fueled all-nighter spent reading..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mongol

Kazakhstan's Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film is an epic drama about the early years of Genghis Khan.

"...horse-mounted skirmishes galore (replete with lakes of arterial CGI gore), but by the time the film's abrupt conclusion arrives,..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Doomsday

In this UK thriller, the so-called Reaper virus threatens the Isles with extinction.

"...gliding camera movements punctuated by sudden, extreme moments of gore or explicit character revelation – is still in fine..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Untraceable

This tepid, borderline-offensive cyber-serial-killer thriller rehashes both better and worse examples of the current, vapid clamor for so-called "torture porn."

"...the film's violent shenanigans by virtue of watching the gore onscreen. It's a weird, schizophrenic tack for a film..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thr3e

A Christian psychological horror thriller based on a novel by bestselling Christian author Ted Dekker, Thr3e nevertheless adopts the extreme-horror tactics currently in vogue in movies such as the Saw continuum.

"...and lethal manifestations? It's a sure bet the regular gore hounds will be disappointed by the film's transparencies, but..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Saw III

The director of Saw II is back for more of this vicious-minded series in which the psychopathic Jigsaw toys with his victims' last gasps.

"...nestled inside various and sundry hyperelaborate torture devices. Blood, gore, and viscera of an almost unprecedented level in an..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lunacy

Jan Svankmajer's creepy-crawl slowly becomes one of the most mordantly beautiful of the director's films, an asylum-set anti-love story with mobile body parts and splashy theatrics.

"...but any race that can produce such remarkably garish gore as this is perhaps salvageable somehow, someday. (AFS@Dobie)..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hills Have Eyes

This remake ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, but it never manages the nagging subtexts Craven so handily injected into the original horror film.

"...genre conventions alone, Aja’s film, which ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, is a..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Running Scared

Wayne Kramer's follow-up to his crime drama The Cooler has no moral compass, and swings wildly out of control while blanketed in hyper-violent digital gore effects and a thick, black nausea of the soul.

"...of control, blanketed in all manner of hyper-violent digital gore effects and a thick, black nausea of the soul...."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hostel

In this horror film, three backpackers check in to the wrong hostel where, unbeknownst to them, very bad things happen from dusk till dawn.

"...then, word of mouth has been downright suppurating with gorehound glee: Finally, a horror film that tells it like..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alone in the Dark

There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.

"...bit. There is one moment of explicit head trauma gore sure to get the gorehounds yapping, but the other..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005

Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.

"...It’s unlike anything else on the program this year. Gore is big, and Mondo Media’s "Happy Tree Friends" milks..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Suspect Zero

There's a reason why this FBI agent who's chasing a serial killer has constant headaches: He's in the middle of a murky movie that mixes arch style with police procedural.

"...actual murders are conveyed with relatively modest bloodletting and gore. This is in keeping with director Merhige’s avant-garde pedigree:..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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