Horror Bulletin

Directed by W. Lee Wilder Written by William Raynor, Myles Wilder Stars Peter Graves, James Seay, Steve Pendleton Run Time: 1 Hour, 11 Minutes Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lYp1vpD0kI Get it from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3SIkG08 Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone This one is pretty slow moving and tame. Heavy use of stock footage, use of real locations instead of sets, and aliens…

Directed by Peter Deak Written by Victor Csak, Krisztian Illes Stars Matt Devere, Luca Papp, Nikolett Barabas Run Time: 1 Hour, 59 Minutes Watch it: https://amzn.to/4l8JNFQ Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhiaVEqJgN8 Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone It’s a tale of survival in the apocalypse, with survivors struggling against the zombie infected. That sounds like a familiar formula, but…

Directed by:  Eli Craig Written by: Carter Blanchard, Eli Craig, Adam Cesare Stars: Katie Douglas, Aaron Abrams, Carson MacCormac Run Time: 1 Hour, 36 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytUz_H-5p2I Buy it: https://amzn.to/3ZT7nhJ Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone This was a very well made entry into the slasher genre, done more seriously than we expected. There are some laughs, but…

Directed by:  Sean Cronin Written by: Henry P. Gravelle Stars: Arifin Putra, Eloise Lovell Anderson, Sean Cronin Run Time: 1 Hour, 48 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koah_Kj8v0E Watch it: https://amzn.to/4jPwZTs Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone A young couple go from the frying pan to the fire when they’re running from trouble and find something much worse. It’s a complicated…

Directed by Eli Craig Written by Eli Craig, Morgan Jurgenson Stars Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden Run Time: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1t8OZn_uhE Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone This is an excellent horror comedy. It takes the idea that the killer hillbillies in a horror movie are actually the misunderstood good guys. So much depends on your point of…

Directed by Edgar Wright Written by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg Stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman Run Time: 2 Hours, 1 Minute Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayTnvVpj9t4 Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone It’s a cop buddy action mystery thriller comedy with just the tiniest pinch of horror hints. That said, it’s got a lot of laughs with a decent body count, and the pieces of the…

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer Written by Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Pollexfen Stars Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bonx Run Time: 1 Hour, 11 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTyfzd-sg3A Get it from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3FiB6t9 Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone This is mainly a classic example of early 1950s science fiction, but it’s got some horror elements with alien scares,…

Directed by:  Ryan Coogler Written by: Ryan Coogler Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Saul Williams  Run Time: 2 Hours, 17 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGxHflevuk Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone It’s very much a humanity and period drama with magic and horror in the background, at first. Then things get crazy toward the second half. The cast, direction, music, and…

Directed by Christopher Smith Written by Christopher Smith, Laurie Cook Stars Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Thoren Ferguson Run Time: 1 Hour, 31 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRjG65M6L2c Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone This has a little bit of a slow start, but we do gradually get to find out what’s really going on and who’s behind it. The movie blurs the lines a little between…

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra Written by Charles Belden, Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes Stars Michael Murray, Paris Hilton, Elisha Cuthbert Run Time: 1 Hour, 53 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezUtqfB24Cg Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone It’s a remake in name only, of the 1953 original. That said though, this had a good script, actors that knew what to do with it, good direction,…

Directed by Michael Pierro Written by Michael Pierro Stars Nathanael Chadwick, Reece Presley, Lauren Welchner Run Time: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw-C5GnJQ68 Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone We weren’t sure going into this one, the trailer looked iffy. But it turns out the trailer doesn’t do it justice. It was very good. Nathanael Chadwick is perfectly cast in…

Directed by Victor Garcia Written by Gary J. Tunnicliffe, Clive Barker Stars Steven Brand, Nick Eversman, Tracey Fairaway, Jay Gillespie Run Time: 1 Hour, 15 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63I1ZmGqjXI Watch it: https://amzn.to/43zJXQp Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone Unlike some of the previous sequels that were a standalone movie with a little Hellraiser stuff barely tacked…

Directed by Andrea M. Catinella Written by Harry Boxley Stars Alexander Butler, Lauren Staerck, Alina Desmond Run Time: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArvBZ3Nt9E Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone This isn’t the Piglet from “Pooh: Blood and Honey,” it’s a seperate tale. This Piglet is a big mutated guy wearing a mask and having a big appetite for killing. Reminiscent…

Directed by Matt Palmer Written by Matt Palmer, Donal McLeary, R.L. Stine Stars India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fia Strazza Run Time: 1 Hour, 31 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYbnjaK5nsI Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone This was too heavy on teen and high school drama, but it still manages to be pretty entertaining. It doesn’t drag, and the kills are well done. It takes place in the…

Directed by Leigh Janiak Written by Phil Graziadei, Leigh Janiak, Kate Trefry Stars Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukerman, Gillian Jacobs Run Time: 1 Hour, 54 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj3CXY8rKuY Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone It suffers from what all three of the films do, a slow start. Using the same cast as ancestor characters in 1666 was an interesting choice that worked.…

Directed by Leigh Janiak Written by Zak Olkewicz, Leigh Janiak, Phil Graziadei Stars Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins Run Time: 1 Hour, 49 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR2KSY1fipo Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone This one has some of the present day from the first movie, but a large chunk of it flashes back to a prequel of things that took place in 1978. It’s a slasher at…

Directed by Leigh Janiak Written by R.L. Stine, Kyle Killen, Phil Graziadel Stars Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr.  Run Time: 1 Hour, 47 Minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9PuKH4hKSU Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone A lot of teenagers in their 20s go through drama, romance and horror as they try to fight a witchy evil that’s been tainting their town for…