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Crash Analysis: OUTCAST (Ireland/UK, 2010) – 4 stars
Atmospheric, fantastical and intriguing One tries to use magic to kill a teen, another uses it to try and save him Colm McCarthy knows a thing or two about keeping an audience engaged with the sound and vision before them. After all, this screenwriter/director has helmed many a television show where hooking the audience before…
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Crash Anaylsis: BIG ASS SPIDER (2013)
A Big Ass Blast! Horror/comedy at its creature-feature best Mike Mendez, the man behind the often overlooked THE GRAVEDANCERS (2006), which is one of the best of the “Films to Die For” series, brings us BIG ASS SPIDER a horror/comedy of immense, eight-legged proportions. Alex Mathis (Greg Grunberg) is an exterminator who just can’t seem…
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Crash Analysis: GRABBERS (UK/Ireland, 2012)
Grab it – Before it Grabs You! The UK’s best horror/comedy – take that SHAUN OF THE DEAD! Upon a recommendation, from artist/teacher/Polish movie poster collector, Douglas McCambridge, I rented Jon Wright’s GRABBERS. From the posters it was clear I’d be in for a comedy creature feature, and I certainly needed a brain break from…
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Crash Analysis: HELLRAISER (1987 UK)
Great Story, Great Gross-Out People play with a mysterious puzzle box – and lose… Barker’s acclaimed HELLRAISER holds no punches when it comes to the disgusting meter, but that’s just an aside to a riveting story inhabited by intriguing characters. The always phenomenal Andrew Robinson, character actor extraordinaire, leads a cast of the damned, the…
