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Review of The Strangers (2011)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Nothing gets the old heart pumping like the fear of home invasion, but you wouldn't know it by The Strangers, an utterly pointless portrait…

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Review of The Strangers (1980)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Nothing gets the old heart pumping like the fear of home invasion, but you wouldn't know it by The Strangers, an utterly pointless portrait…

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Review of The Strangers (2008)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Nothing gets the old heart pumping like the fear of home invasion, but you wouldn't know it by The Strangers, an utterly pointless portrait…

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Review of The Mangler (1995)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

I've been more frightened by the prospect of folding my own laundry than by anything The Mangler offers up…

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Review of Dead Silence (1997)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

All dolls are inherently freaky, but there's something seriously bent about a little wooden man with bulging eyes, shiny cheeks, and perfect chompers…

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Review of Turistas (2006)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Turistas is a beautifully shot tale of tropical terror that starts building an ominous vibe early on, but never really turns into a full-fledged…

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Review of The Return (2006)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

This low-key supernatural thriller, illogical as it is, offers a brief respite from the gruelling Saws and Hostels of the world…

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Review of Joshua (2006)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Anyone who's ever heard (or just imagined) troubling sounds coming from a fuzzy baby monitor or fretted while their fifth-grader traversed…

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Review of Anaconda (1954)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Just to show, early on, how much danger these folks are in, we get to see the film's titular star squeeze a black panther so tight that one…

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Review of Vacancy (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Once the fight-for-their-lives plot kicks in, unfortunately named director Nimród Antal keeps the action intense and well paced…

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Review of I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

The scariest thing about this monumentally bad movie, apart from watching it, is Aubrey's hairless Sphynx cat, which commands more screen time…

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Review of The Orphanage (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

As director Juan Antonio Bayona proves with his astonishing feature debut, you don't need a rusty scalpel to reveal the inner workings of the…

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Review of The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

The odd psychological interplay between the gutsy, but green, Starling and the deranged, yet fascinating, Lecter provides the basic tone for…

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Review of The People Under the Stairs (1991)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

The performances combine with Craven's witty script and energetic direction to make The People Under the Stairs a spooky, laugh-filled release…

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Review of Dead Silence (1989)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

All dolls are inherently freaky, but there's something seriously bent about a little wooden man with bulging eyes, shiny cheeks, and perfect chompers…

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Review of A Perfect Getaway (2009)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

A riveting horror-thriller that should do for hiking in Hawaii what Hostel did for backpacking in Slovakia…

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Review of Child of Sorrow (1956)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Who really needs to see some guy slice into a woman's lower back, dig around in there with his fingers, and then reel in a four-foot length…

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Review of The Reaping (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

He lays the photos out on the floor and the burn marks form a cross with a hook at the bottom, the unmistakable emblem of '70s hard rockers…

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Review of Universal Soldier (1992)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

There are some pretty decent stunts-especially the one where the two main Uni-Sols go rappelling face-first down Hoover Dam-but they hardly…

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Review of Primeval (2007)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 05 Jul 2010

Primeval is one of crummiest killer-beast flicks of all time…

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