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Ten Second Horror Movie Reviews

In the face of dwindling attention spans, here are the fastest possible reviews of horror films (by genre) intended as a 'spot-guide' to your own horror viewing.

INSTRUCTIONS - Mouse over Mr. Spooky for the review, and mouse over the dark bar of tiny skulls for the rating.




AntiChrist/Possession Movies Demonic Movies Ghost Movies Miscellaneous Monster Movies
Mutant Movies Slasher Movies Space Monster Movies Torture Movies
Vampire Movies Werewolf Movies Witch Movies Zombie Movies








Werewolf Movies

BUY - Landmark effects, mixture of fun and fear, decomposing buddy, howling on the moors, not too dated, still fun
5 Spookies		 An American Werewolf in London
1981		 RENT - Hammer-like Amicus release, melodamatic, features Peter Cushing
2 Spookies		 The Beast Must Die
1974		 RENT - Amped up Little Red Riding Hood story, full of nightmare images and adolescent warnings
3 Spookies		 The Company of Wolves
1984		 RENT - Somewhat dated, but sultry shape shifting, visually rich, good soundtrack
3 Spookies		 Cat People
1982
RENT - Unique makeup, odd rambling story, Spanish sets, and good action. Very unusual Hammer film
3 Spookies		 Curse of the Werewolf
1961		 RENT - Brother and sister in denial about becoming werewolves - their disbelief makes it credible
2 Spookies		 Cursed
2005		 BUY - Great indie werewolf meets military movie, good dark forests, creepy house, stalking werewolves
4 Spookies		 Dog Soldiers
2002		 SKIP - Lame made for HBO movie imagines if the A-Team were werewolves
1 Spooky		 Full Eclipse
1993
RENT - Lycanthropy as a metaphore for aunt flow. Great indie movie with good cast and direction, breaks the mould
4 Spookies		 Ginger Snaps
2000		 Taint reviewed it yet.
Review Pending...		 Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
2004		 RENT - Fun period-piece prequel creates good backstory, frontier frights
3 Spookies		 Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
2004		 RENT - Good on screen werewolves for its time, reasonably good but very dated
3 Spookies		 The Howling
1981
SKIP - Christopher Lee and S&M werewolves can't even save this muddled 80's stinker
1 Spooky		 The Howling II Your Sister is a Werewolf
1985		 SKIP - Marsupial lunacy, just driving the franchise firmly into the ground, paper mache werewolves
1 Spooky		 The Howling III
1987		 SKIP - Painfully slow as the series runs out of gas, mixes werewolves and demons and boredom
1 Spooky		 The Howling IV - The Original Nightmare
1988		 Taint reviewed it yet.
Review Pending...		 The Howling V
1989
Taint reviewed it yet.
Review Pending...		 The Howling VI - The Freaks
1991		 SKIP - Peter Cushing cannot save this slow plodder, despite interesting travelling circus
1 Spooky		 Legend of the Werewolf
1975		 SKIP - Made for TV melodrama, nice atmosphere and folkloric quality, but pretty slow and hokey
1 Spooky		 Moon of the Wolf
1972		 SKIP - Dated and hard to watch, more of a kid movie with Gary Busey and Corey Haim - any questions?
1 Spooky		 Silver Bullet
1985
Taint reviewed it yet.
Review Pending...		 Skinwalkers
2006		 Taint reviewed it yet.
Review Pending...		 Sleepwalkers
1992		 SKIP - Michael J. Fox as a pubescent werewolf worried about high school popularity and basketball
1 Spooky		 Teen Wolf
1985		 SKIP - One wasn't bad enough, now Jason Bateman covers the same silly ground. I know it is a comedy
1 Spooky		 Teen Wolf Too
1987
Taint reviewed it yet.
Review Pending...		 Werewolf in a Womens Prison
2006		 RENT - Departure from the formula - this werewolf doesn't like makeup, can speak, and is cured by a moon flower
2 Spookies		 Werewolf of London
1935		 SKIP - Pretty standard 1960's biker movie with some devil worshippers thrown in, and at the end they get fuzzy
1 Spooky		 Werewolves On Wheels
1971		 RENT - Big budget, nice treatment where being a werewolf doesn't make you hairy so much as awesome
3 Spookies		 Wolf
1994
RENT - Shapeshifting Indians in New York, slow 80's pacing, little punch, too much 'wolf vision' but some good moments
2 Spookies		 Wolfen
1981		 BUY - Always a favorite despite Lon Chaney Jr's wooden acting. Lots of atmosphere, gypsies, foggy forests and Universal charm
4 Spookies		 The Wolf Man
1941


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