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Review of Watchmen (2009)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 07 Mar 2009

Ponderous and dull, this filmic adaptation of the famous graphic novel proves that great source material, a healthy budget, and technical competence…

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Review of Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 19 Feb 2009

There is too much ambition on display for the film to be completely dismissed, but good intentions carry Repo! only partway toward success…

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Review of Alien Raiders (2008)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 18 Feb 2009

Coming across like Quentin Tarantino Meets Aliens in a Supermarket, this nifty little movie is enough to restore your faith in the vitality…

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Review of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 15 Feb 2009

Although it may not be a good Friday the 13th movie (by whatever strange standards that is reckoned)...Jason Goes to Hell works reasonably…

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Review of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 15 Feb 2009

This is easily the most disappointing of the original...movies - which is quite an achievement when you consider that the overall quality of…

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Review of Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood (1988)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 14 Feb 2009

You cannot really take the results seriously, but they are fun, offering both...something never really shown in a

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Review of Friday the 13th Part III (1982)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 13 Feb 2009

The funny thing is: as lame as the story and characters are, the movie actually works as a crowd-pleasing piece of junk entertainment…

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Review of Friday the 13th (2009)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 13 Feb 2009

Less like a remake than just another tired sequel, the new film puts Jason through the same old moves with all the finese of a blind choreographer…

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Review of Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 12 Feb 2009

Even crude techniques, when properly employed, can be effective, in a lowest-common-denominator kind of way…

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Review of Doom (2005)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 12 Feb 2009

A nifty piece of low-ambition entertainment that knows exactly what it is, and delivers fairly well on its promises…

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Review of Street Fighter (1993)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for ESplatter (208) on 12 Feb 2009

The story of STREET FIGHTER is a mere trifle, but who cares? The real problem is that...the visceral impact is practically nil…

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Review of Street Fighter (1994)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for ESplatter (208) on 12 Feb 2009

The story of STREET FIGHTER is a mere trifle, but who cares? The real problem is that...the visceral impact is practically nil…

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Review of Coraline (2009)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for ESplatter (208) on 06 Feb 2009

Coraline mixes the dark and the light in the perfect amounts; the result is all the sweeter for having dared to tread the bitter path of childhood…

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Review of The Shining (1980)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for ESplatter (208) on 03 Feb 2009

The result may not quite match Kubrick's greatest films, but it is enthralling and hypnotic - a brilliant, ambitious attempt to shoot a horror…

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Review of Teeth (2008)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for ESplatter (208) on 21 Jan 2009

Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein's low-budget horror film is...more satirical than scary...however, he ultimately delivers the gory goods…

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Review of Teeth (2000)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for ESplatter (208) on 21 Jan 2009

Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein's low-budget horror film is...more satirical than scary...however, he ultimately delivers the gory goods…

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Review of My Bloody Valentine (2009)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for ESplatter (208) on 16 Jan 2009

I am no fan of slasher films, and I came to this with no expectations - who needs another remake? - but it won me over in spite of myself…

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Review of Event Horizon (1997)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 30 Dec 2008

Paul Anderson shoots things to look cool, but he has no grasp on how to modulate the visuals to carry the audience into the deepening nightmare…

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Review of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for Cinefantastique (193) on 10 Dec 2008

Although there is an admirable attempt to stay true to the higher aspirations of the high-class source material, the new effort is undermined…

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Review of Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

By Steve Biodrowski (334) for ESplatter (208) on 25 Nov 2008

Sometimes dismissed for being too slowly paced and too slavish to its source, it is in fact superior to the original…

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