Deadheads (2011) - 3/4
Deadheads is another heartwarming zombie horror comedy in the vein of Shaun of the Dead and the legions of other heartwarming/hearteating zombie comedies. If you're sick of zombie comedies, as I am,...
View ArticleBad Kids Go to Hell (2012) - 2.5/4
Probably every reviewer that took on Bad Kids Go to Hell has described it as "The horror version of The Breakfast Club." Yes, there is even a Judd Nelson cameo. I suppose to some extent that's true. To...
View ArticleWalled In (2009) - 2.5/4
Walled In, based on the psychological thriller Les emmurés by French author Serge Brussolo, concerns a pretty, young engineer (Mischa Barton) assigned to find a building's weak points for her dad's...
View ArticleThe Dark Halves: How Stephen King and George Romero Reflect Themselves in The...
In 1991, an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Half (1993), written and directed by George Romero, began filming. Though both men are well-regarded artists within the horror genre, the pairing of...
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Carrion Creativity: The Sources of Evil Dead
Evil Dead (2013) was not a candidate for review on Lair of the Boyg. With 404 external reviews already on Internet Movie Database, mine would be a drop in a lake. Had I written a review, I would have...
View ArticleThe Devil's Rock (2011) - 3/4
Nazi occultism is always an interesting subject and certainly ripe material for a horror movie. I am inclined to think the occult tendencies in the Third Reich were purely decorative and symbolic. But...
View ArticleManiac (2012) - 3.5/4
Maniac is a remake of the 1980 William Lustig classic slasher of the same title. Lustig didn't just approve, he also produced this remake, helmed by P2 director Frank Khalfoun. What makes Maniac really...
View ArticleGeorge Romero's Philosophy of Violence
Romero's entire cinematic oeuvre can be taken as a lifelong reflection on the nature of violence. Violence in fantasy and action, not zombies, has been the one constant in all of Romero's films. His...
View ArticleThe Paranormal Activity Films
As I finished the fourth Paranormal Activity film, the most recent of the series to date, I found myself reliving the same disappointments I experienced with the first three films. As I reflected upon...
View ArticleGallowwalkers (2012) - 2.5/4
Gallowwalkers is a new entry in the relatively rare subgenre of the horror-western. The film's real attraction to most will be the star, Wesley Snipes. Perhaps expecting a westernized version of Blade,...
View ArticleNotes from the Turkeyground III: A Month in Bad Movie Asylum
Yet again, the annual tradition of watching allegedly 'bad' movies dawned in our household. November 1st is eagerly anticipated like a harvest feast. We stockpile for it all year long. "We can save...
View ArticlePledge Night (1990) - 2/4
The slasher genre has a strange fixation on fraternities and sororities. I'm not sure why that is. They are a standard location to find a bunch of young adults and kill them. So there's that. Also,...
View ArticleDisconnected (1983) - 2.5/4
Phones are creepy. The proliferation of cellular phones today has transformed them into almost an extension of the body. I'm old enough to remember a world without cell phones. I'm old enough to...
View ArticleSkinned Deep (2004) - 2.5/4
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one helluva movie. Like the Hamlet of horror movies, if a movie goes anywhere near its subject matter, it does seem to be imitating it. Imitating The Texas Chainsaw...
View ArticleThe Wicker Tree (2011) - 2.5/4
Some people are very consistent in their obsessions. Robin Hardy appears to be one of those. He wrote and directed the horror classic, The Wicker Man, a very strange film with otherworldly cadences....
View ArticleTurkeyshoot (1982) - Revisiting an Ozploitation Classic
Turkeyshoot, or Escape 2000, is one of Brian Trenchard-Smith’s classic Ozsploitation films, along with Dead-End Drive-In (1989), before he started directing Lifetime movies. Turkeyshoot is really...
View Article13 Eerie (2013) - 2/4
When will pompous professors learn to stop dragging their students out to monster-ridden islands in the middle of nowhere? 13 Eerie is another one of those. He’s a professor of criminology, in this...
View ArticleAmateur Porn Star Killer (2006) - 1/4
Amateur Porn Star Killer. I like that title. The cover depicts a beautifully sculpted female back, her hair up over her dog collar and her hands bound at her buttocks. One assumes she’s one of the...
View ArticleThe Hearse (1980) - 2.5/4
Inheriting something around Joseph Cotten is always a bad thing. Whether it’s the castle in Baron Blood or the Georgian country home in The Hearse, things won’t go well. Trish van Devere, sexy in an...
View ArticleRoad Games (1981) - 2.5/4
For all of us who’ve ever thought Rear Window (1954) would’ve been better as an Australian trucker movie with Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, well, there’s Road Games. Written by the great Everett De...
View ArticleParanormal Activity 5: The Marked Ones (2013) - 3/4
I never enjoy the Paranormal Activity movies that much. Yet I find myself watching every time a new one comes out. I don’t know why I haven’t given up on the series yet. Probably for the few moments in...
View ArticleNotes from the Turkeyground: All the Turkey's a Stage
For the first time since I started writing these Notes from the Turkeyground four years ago, we're doing something different. The Turkey Challenge, to inform those not in-the-know, is an annual...
View ArticleSome Lair of the Boyg News
For any readers wondering where I've been for the last few months, I was busy writing and marketing my first novel, Nazi Sharks! A novel of big boobs and asshole sharks. Visit the website to learn more...
View ArticleThe Antiquated Terror of 976-EVIL (1988)
976-EVIL is a movie about a premium-rate horoscope hotline that either kills or corrupts its callers. Hoax (Stephen Geoffreys), the nerdy hero-villain, uses the hotline to escape his reality of...
View ArticleDemons (1985) - 30th Anniversary
"The very definition of geek show cinema, Demons is nothing more than 90 minutes of mindless, gut wrenching mayhem..." - DVDTalkLamberto Bava's Demons is a film that is so easy to misread as 'mindless,...
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