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Review of Wide Awake (2007)

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 Captivity (2007)

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

The only smart move made by the filmmakers was casting Pruitt Taylor Vince as the torturer…

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Review of Joshua (2007)

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 My Bloody Valentine (2009)

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

The outrageous amounts of blood 'n' guts directed toward the audience in three-dimensional spatters still make this substandard flick a gorehound's…

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Review of Anaconda (1997)

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 Sleepwalkers (2007)

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

Cameo appearances by horror icons Clive Barker, Tobe Hooper, and the King himself add little to this slapstick gorefest, which focuses on goofy…

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Review of The Lawnmower Man (1992)

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

The blatant effort to cash in on King's name has never been so evident before, and at this rate we can surely expect the prime terror and gruesome…

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Review of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

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

Freddy Krueger's 3-D death is about as lame as the rest of this crummy flick, the sixth and supposedly last in the often imaginative but ultimately…

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Review of The Relic (1997)

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

No doubt the bill for Energizers alone took up a big chunk of this gory clunker's $48-million budget…

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Review of The Strangers (1998)

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 Dead Silence (2007)

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 The Ruins (1984)

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 Village of the Damned (1995)

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

The real shock came when I noticed that a woman filing out of the premiere screening beside me had actually marked her rating card with an…

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Review of Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)

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

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer is like a combination of those two 1987 releases, but it contains none of the awesomeness of The Hidden and all…

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Review of The Messengers (2007)

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

Thai twin-brother directors Oxide and Danny Pang did primo horror work on 2002's Hong Kong cornea-transplant flick The Eye, but on their first…

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Review of Dead Silence (1991)

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 The Exorcist III (1990)

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

A good chunk of The Exorcist III is taken up by a series of sit-down chats; close-ups of Scott's ugly mug are the only half-frightening thing…

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Review of The Invasion (2007)

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

As ridiculous as The Invasion gets, its competent acting, fast pace, and campy B-movie vibe keep you weirdly transfixed against your better judgment…

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Review of Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009)

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

It could be the funniest Canadian movie ever made…

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Review of Lord of Illusions (1995)

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

It's a sad day for both fright fans and the man Stephen King once prophesied was the future of horror…

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