Bestseller (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
6/10

Bestseller is a new South Korean thriller that borrows from a couple notable genre flicks, but also blends a couple sub-genres together and delivers a decent little murder mystery. Not the most original of flicks, the movie does give a couple chills in the beginning and an out've-nowhere twist half way that sets the mark for a change of pace and story.
Daddy's Girl (1996)

REVIEWER RATING: 
6/10


Daddy's Girl is a little known 90's evil kid flick that I've somehow missed over the years. Being partial to the particular sub-genre, it's rare for me to find a movie that I hadn't heard of or seen before. Though the film doesn't break any new ground or offer much blood or body count, the decent writing and terrorizing lil' red-headed star delivers the right amount of charm, innocence, and deviousness to make it an above-average watch.
Road Kill (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
4/10


Road Kill is one of eight films in Fangoria's new FrightFest distribution banner, where they plan to release the flicks on VOD, DVD, and digital download on the same date. If Road Kill is any indication as to the quality of the movies in the rest of the label then I wouldn't get my hopes up, as this turned out to be a sadly boring genre effort. The movie attempts to blend two sub-genres together and I actually liked the concept and what it attempted to achieve, but sadly it was just horribly executed.
Disturbing Behavior (1998)

REVIEWER RATING: 
6/10


The Relic (1997)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


The Relic is a movie that I've been wanting to revisit for a while now. I was lucky enough to catch the film in theaters and eventually picked it up on VHS, but hadn't seen it again until I found it for cheap on Blu-ray. This is yet another flick that I'd proudly consider a guilty pleasure and feel that it's a bit underrated as far as creature features go.
Splice (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


Cube director Vincenzo Natali brings us yet another thought-provoking feature with Splice, a sci-fi effort that didn't quite capture the audiences that it should have at the box office. Poorly marketed as a horror film, Splice is more of sci-fi drama, with minor horror elements thrown in. The story brings forth many ethical questions and debate on the right and wrongs of medical science and is probably one of the more smart "horror" films to come out in years.
Trilogy of Terror II (1996)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


Trilogy of Terror II is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. Having seen it when it first aired on the USA network a day before Halloween back in 1996, and being an impressionable young horror fan at the time, it was an enjoyable night's worth of entertainment that I never forgot. I decided to revisit that night by giving the film another look to see if it holds up from the last time I saw it, and to my surprise, it does.

Original co-writer/director Dan Curtis returns for this sequel, which is definitely a flawed film, but still managed to hold my attention from the start, delivering some predictable, but entertaining stories that in many respects are still more creative than what we get from the genre now-a-days.
Drive Thru (2007)

REVIEWER RATING: 
5/10

Drive Thru is a film that I've been meaning to watch for a few years now, but only after recently re-discovering it streaming legally online that I decided to finally give it a check. The flick turned out to be a surprisingly decent horror parody, despite its many shortcomings.
Heartless (2009)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


Heartless is a film that explores a more psychological and emotional approach within the genre, giving us more dramatic elements and character development than what we usually encounter in horror, and I personally liked the direction it took. The movie is a nice break from the usual dull and predictable tripe we get now-a-days, especially in the straight-to-DVD front.
Hard Ride to Hell (2010)

REVIEWER RATING: 
4/10


Hard Ride to Hell is an attempted throwback to earlier road films and seems to borrow a lot from the similarly-themed Race with the Devil, but in the end (aside from a couple notable genre faces) it's just another easily forgettable straight-to-DVD horror effort.

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