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Category Archives: Exploitation

Horror Movie Roundup Remonstrated: Darling, Baskin, XX, and Hush

August 15, 2017by insidethebluepaint Leave a comment

Darling: Mickey Keating keeps playing in other people’s sandboxes with this black-and-white tribute to artsy ’60s horror in the mold of Roman Polanski. Prefaced by a warning about seizure-inducing flashes […]

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Exploitation, Film, Foreign, Horror, Horror Movie Roundup, Movie review, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Horror Movie Roundup Re-premeditated: Starry Eyes, Carnage Park, The Visit, I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

June 2, 2017by insidethebluepaint Leave a comment

Starry Eyes: La La Land if Emma Stone’s character scrapped her one-woman show for a devil’s bargain that saw her vomiting maggots and maybe murdering Ryan Gosling to achieve stardom, Starry […]

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B Movies, Exploitation, Film, Horror, Horror Movie Roundup, Movie review, Suspense, Thriller
Creep movie review

“Creep” (2004) just wants to piss you off

October 7, 2016by insidethebluepaint Leave a comment

More intent on pissing you off than scaring you, Christopher Smith’s 2004 grungy-slick Creep throws innocent bodies in the way of Franka Potente’s numbskull actress to perish at the hands […]

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Exploitation, Film, Horror, Movie review, Suspense, Thriller
The Other Side of the Door movie review

New England or New Delhi,”The Other Side of the Door”delivers standard haunted house cliches

October 6, 2016by insidethebluepaint Leave a comment

A glut of horror movie cliches bask in the sweltering Indian heat in the Alexandre Aja-produced The Other Side of the Door, a slice of India-sploitation that rides on higher […]

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Drama, Exploitation, Film, Horror, Movie review, Suspense, Thriller
Vampyres movie review

Erotic horror “Vampyres”flows with a post-coital languor

April 6, 2016by insidethebluepaint Leave a comment

This slice of ’70s erotic horror comes off as a dissolute weekend project that’s best enjoyed in the same state of mind. As bereft of plot as its two female leads are […]

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B Movies, Exploitation, Film, Horror, Indie, Movie review
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“Hellions” flatters its inspiration, but won’t inspire flattery of its own

February 6, 2016by insidethebluepaint Leave a comment

Hellions, Bruce McDonald’s proper horror movie followup to 2008’s brilliant Pontypool, is a mess of horror movie DNA, a last-second Halloween costume stitched together from better, more self-assured movies that span the […]

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Exploitation, Film, Horror, Movie review, Suspense
Raze poster

“Raze” fails to put up its dukes

January 13, 2016by insidethebluepaint Leave a comment

Actor and stuntwoman extraordinaire Zoe Bell is the one redeeming factor in Raze, a transparent exploitation movie that can’t come up with a good reason to make women fight to the death, much […]

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Action, B Movies, Exploitation, Film, Movie review

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