The horror bible

Advantages: Comprehensive, well written, entertaining
Disadvantages: Some very noticeable typos

...This is two books in one volume ? the reprint of Newman?s original Nightmare Movies, first published in 1988, and New Nightmares, an update which fills us in on what?s been happening in horror cinema ever since. Nightmare Movies has probably has as much influence on me as any other book I?ve read (I must have got my copy in about 1990, when I was 16). I?d always loved books on horror films in...

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Review of Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s - Kim Newman

The Amityville Horror

Advantages: Enjoyable Scary
Disadvantages: True Story - How awful

...I am reviewing the movie The Amityville Horror I watched this movie last night on television and I have to admit I was a little creeped out. And apparently it is a true story. So I had the hebbi geebies throughout. The Story A family decide to buy a house in the country, which is a great bargain, only to find out after that the previous family had been murdered in the house. That...

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Review of The Amityville Horror (DVD)

Not Much of a Horror

Advantages: Some warm central perfomances
Disadvantages: An overwhelming lack of imagination or real scares

...On 14th November 1975, Ronald DeFeo brutally murdered his entire family, claiming voices in the house drove him to it. A year later newlyweds George and Kathy Lutz move in with her three children. Shortly after George's mind begins to unravel as the house takes hold of him. The random remake roundabout spins into action once more and spits out this bloody lump of recycled 70s schlock horror...

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