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The Cutting Edge, by Adam Groves

Want to know about a movie's story, style, and overall ax rating?

Critic Adam Groves offers insight and in-your-face honesty about classic and contemporary horror. 

New Literary Reviews!

Movies:

 

99.9
The 4th Man
A Bell From Hell  
Acne
Abby
Afraid of the Dark
Agony
Alien Blood
All Cheerleaders Die
Alligator
Alraune
Alucarda
American Psycho
Ammoru
The Angel and the Woman
Angst
Arrebato
Atrocity Exhibition
A Zed and Two Noughts
The Baby 
Bad Guy
Bad Timing
Battle Royale
Baxter

Beatrice
Begotten
The Beguiled
Beware!Children At Play
Beyond Dream's DoorNEW!
Beyond The Darkness
Black Moon
Black Sunday
Blind Beast
Blind Woman's Curse
Blobermouth
Blood Beach
Blood Freak
Bluebeard
Blue Sunshine
The Boogens
The Borrower
The Boxer's Omen
Brimstone and Treacle
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
The Brotherhood of Satan
Bruiser
Buddy Boy
Bug
Burial Ground
Buried Alive
Burn Witch Burn!
Caligula
The Call of Cthulhu
The Candy Snatchers
Cannibal Man
Capricci
The Car
The Carrier
Castle Freak
Cemetery Man
The Changeling
The Chekist
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Christine
The City of the Living Dead
Class of 1999
Cleopatra's Second Husband
Come and See 
Contamination
Cowards Bend the Knee
Crash  
The Crazy Family

Crazy Love
Creep
Creepshow
Dagon
The Dark Backward
Dark Corners
The Dark Side of Love
Dark Waters
Das Experiment
Day of the Dead
A Day With the Boys
Dead Boyz Can't Fly
Deadly Run
The Deadly Spawn
The Dead Next Door
The Dead Pit
Death Bed
Deathdream
Death Game
Death Laid an Egg
The Deathmaker
Defenceless
Demon Lover Diary
Demons
Denti
Der Todesking
The Devils  
The Devil's Rain
Diabel
Django Kill!
Dracula Sucks
Dumplings
The Dunwich Horror
Dust Devil
El Topo
The End of the World
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
Even Dwarfs Started Small
The Evil Within
Eyes of Fire  
The Fall of the House of Usher
NEW!
Fantomas
The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Flesh Eaters
Flooding
The Folks at Red Wolf Inn
Fool's Fire
The Fool Killer
Frankenstein Unbound
Freak Orlando
From Beyond
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Gemini
Ghost Story of Yotsuya
The Girl Next Door
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Goodbye Uncle Tom
Gothic
Gozu
The Grapes of Death
Grave of the Vampire
Habit
Hard
Hardware
The Head
Hell House
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Hider in the House
The Hills Have Eyes
The Holy Mountain
Homebodies 
Horror!
Horrors of Malformed Men
House
The House With Windows That Laughed
Ice From The Sun
I Drink Your Blood
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?
In a Glass Cage  
In My Skin
Inner Senses 
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
In Your Face
Irreversible
The Isle  
It is Fine! Everything is Fine.

J'Accuse
Jack Be Nimble
Jack Frost
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Just Before Dawn
The Keep  
Kill, Baby...Kill!NEW!
Killer Nerd
The Killing of Satan
The Kingdom
Kissed
Labyrinth of DreamsNEW!
Ladybug Ladybug
Lady Terminator
Last Frankenstein
Last House On Dead End Street
The Last Man on Earth  
The Last Supper
Lemora  
Let's Scare Jessica to Death

L'Inferno

Long Weekend 
Lost Highway
Love God
Lucky
Macabre  
Malpertuis
The Mansion of Madness
Matango:Attack of the Mushroom People
The Mighty Peking Man
Moebius
Monsturd
The Moor's Head
Morgiana
Mosquito
The Music of Erich Zann
My Friends Need Killing
Mystics in Bali
The Nameless
Naqoyqatsi
Necronomicon
The Neighbor No.Thirteen
Nightmare City
Night of the Creeps
Night Tide
The Noah
Nosferatu the Vampyre
No Telling
Nothing But Trouble
Onibaba
Opera
Otesanek
Panic in Year Zero 
Parasite Eve
Parents
The People Who Own the Dark
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pinnochio 964
Professor Dowell's Testament
Providence
Q-The Winged Serpent
Rabid Dogs
Red And Rosy
Red To Kill
The Refrigerator
Repulsion
Return to Glennascaul  
Riding the Bullet
Ring
Salome
The Sandman
Santa Claus
Santa Sangre  
Saragossa Manuscript
Séance
The Sect
Serial Mom
Series 7
The Severed Arm
She Freak
Shivers
Shock
The Shout
The Silver Globe
Singapore Sling
Sister My Sister
Six Days, Six Nights
Skinner
Society
Sonny Boy
The Spirit of the Beehive  
The Stone Tape
Suicide Circle
Suicide Cult
Surrender Dorothy
Sybil
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
The Tenant 
The Testimony of Randolph Carter
That Same Horrifying Night
They Came Back
They Live
Thirst
Thriller-A Cruel Picture
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
The Todd Killings
Tokyo Fist
Tomie
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Tideland
Trick or Treat
Trilogy of Terror
Trouble Every Day
Two Evil Eyes
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Vengeance is Mine
Vidocq  
Viy
Voices Within
Wake in Fright
Whirlpool
White Dog
Who Can Kill a Child?
Witch With Flying Head
Witchfinder General
Wizard of Gore
Wolf Creek
The World's Greatest Sinner
X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes
Yokai Monsters
Y2K: Shut Down Detected

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Commentary:

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Remembering Bob Clark: A brief overview of the eclectic career of the late Bob Clark. 

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AMERICAN PSYCHO: Fifteen Years Later

The Spawn of EL MARIACHI

Fangoria's June 2006 Weekend of Horrors--A Reminiscence

Scattered Thoughts on Imported DVDs and Theatrical Distribution

A Look at the films of Fernando Arrabal


Cache & Night of the Living Dead
: Mutually Exclusive or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
 

2005: The Year in Horror

A Nostalgic Look Back at THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE (1985-89)

Troubling Questions About Land of the Dead, High Tension, The Box Office Slump...And You!  

Fangoria’s  June,  2005  Weekend of Horrors:  A  Reminiscence   

2004: The Year in Horror  

Annoying Trends In Modern Horror Movies  

2003: The Year in Horror


Christmas and Horror: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together!

Addio Carmelo  

Is Hollywood Overreacting To The Piracy Threat?

The 10 Best Unreleased Horror Movies: 1993-2003
 

The Gore Boom - Is It A Bust?  

Books On Horror Movie Makers: An Overview  

Some Thoughts on the Summer of '03

Horror Movies And Bootleg Videos Part 3:
DVD-R's, Cremaster, And An Updated Video Distributor List

Horror's Most Sacred Cows...Slaughtered!

Transvestitism, Satan Worship, Mind Control and Mass Murder: The (Later) Films of Philip Yordan

The Fifty Best Horror Movies Of All Time

R.I.P. Video Archives

When Rock Stars Make Movies

A Real Shooting In A Real Movie Theater: Another True-Life Horror Story

Real Animal Killings in Reel Life

The Layperson's Guide to Modern Living: A True Tale of Terror

DVD Coding: Bullshit In Any Region

"The Remake Thing"

These Movies DID Play at a Theater Near You...But You Didn't See 'Em!

2002: The Year in Horror

Why I Hate The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Clive Barker is Gay...Deal With it!

A Progress Report On The Year So Far

Is It Just Me Or Do These Movies Suck?  

Horror movies and bootlegged videos: Not exactly a match made in Heaven, but a match nonetheless

Horror Movies and Bootleg Videos Part Two: To Trade Or Not To Trade?

Debunking Some Stupid Sayings

2001: The Year in Horror

A few Hundred Words about DVD's

The New Horror Fan