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Review of The Number 23 (2007)

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

As Walter's/Fingerling's paranoia grows, the viewer is irritatingly yanked back and forth between the real and imagined settings, and left…

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Review of Severance (2006)

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

Discriminating horror fans should also note that it's the most exhilarating fright flick to hit theatres since last year's The Descent…

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Review of Sleepwalkers (1992)

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 Needful Things (1993)

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

By the end of the film, I couldn't have cared less if the town's entire population had been dragged down to Lucifer's fiery abode…

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Review of Untraceable (2008)

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

Untraceable boasts a respected director (Gregory Hoblit of Fracture and Primal Fear), and a popular movie star (Diane Lane) but it's still…

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Review of The Ruins (2008)

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 Darkman (1990)

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

Raimi's $14-million project is a thrilling comic-book-style adventure that goes for the heart but uses romance and tragedy in lieu of an eight-inch…

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Review of Blood and Chocolate (2007)

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

The ads for Blood and Chocolate proudly declare that it's 'from the producers of Underworld', as if that's something to brag about…

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Review of The Prophecy (1995)

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

Surprisingly, the appearance of perennial film weirdo Walken in slicked-back raven hair actually marks the point where The Prophecy begins…

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Review of Joshua (1976)

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 Saw VI (2009)

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

Saw VI is the sixth Saw I've seen, and maybe the sickest…

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Review of Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

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

Director Russell Mulcahy is revered by genre fans for his work on the original Highlander, but he won't gain many followers outside Fangoria…

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Review of Army of Darkness (1992)

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

Raimi turns his back on the horror genre that brought him fame in the first place and delivers instead a cartoonish sword-and-sorcery fantasy,…

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Review of Joshua (2002)

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 Breakdown (1997)

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

Although Breakdown certainly resembles a compacted version of George Sluizer's Americanized remake of his 1988 Dutch/French psychothriller,…

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Review of Vacancy (1999)

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 Reno 911!: Miami (2007)

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

Reno 911!: Miami has an actual plot that keeps getting in the way of the comical cops-versus-freaks action…

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Review of Saw III (2006)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 11 Nov 2006

Saying that the newest Saw movie is better than the last one is a bit like saying that your latest root canal was better than your last one…

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Review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 27 Oct 2006

This is just the kind of film that gives horror movies a bad name and leads people to lump them all together as crap…

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Review of Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006)

By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 06 Oct 2006

It's freakin' hilarious. I laughed out loud more than 10 times…

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