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A future cult classic that kids will be watching 20 years from now instead of Sleepaway Camp and Friday the 13th. In every way, the film pays homage to the old camp slashers in a very fun and stylish way. The only major minus I note is the PG-13 rating, which deprives us of both gore and pretty women's breasts (and there were some), but on the other hand, the older slashers don’t have much of a bloodbath either, so I can overlook that here just fine. The Final Girls picks up points elsewhere. It has very enjoyable humour, taken care of by the weird Thomas Middleditch, a likeable horror cast, very stylish form with interesting camera angles and impacts and nice slow motion. The film plays nicely with horror clichés, even the colourful visuals look good. It also plays on the emotions in the mother-daughter relationship, the main villain reminded me of Jason in every way (the immortality, the machete, the walk), the scene in the cinema makes you remember the Final Destination, and there’s a very unexpected final twist. A pleasant caress on the heart, I had a good time. One of the most original slasher films ever. The highlight was the final fight between the final girl and the main bad guy, it was pretty awesome. Story 7/10, Atmosphere 5/10, Gore 1/10, Visuals 9/10, Action 5/10, Entertainment 7/10. 75%

Now that's something that even Steven Seagal and Dolph Lundgren together would be ashamed of. I was expecting the film to have terrible actors, badly written dialogue and script, but I didn't expect it to be such a bore with such bad action and cheap looks, even in my scariest nightmare. Wych Kaosayananda could shake hands with Olivier Megaton, both do similarly bad editing. Scott Adkins doesn’t show anything here, the shootouts are like in the 90s, with characters falling to the ground before a bullet reaches them and the popular slow motion!!! Is this director really that bold to come out with this in 2015? Anyway, I'm going to go watch something from Korea, this shit makes me want to puke. Story 1/10, Atmosphere 1/10, Gore 3/10, Visuals 3/10, Action 3/10, Entertainment 2/10. 20%

Eli Roth's sexually charged appetizer before The Green Inferno was pretty good. Knock Knock doesn't lean too much on horror, rather it attacks the psychological components, which in my opinion could have been escalated much more aggressively, but it’s still decent entertainment with an erotic. The beautiful Ana de Armas induces an erection every time she's in the frame, and I don't think I've seen a more arousing threesome in a horror film. Story 6/10, Atmosphere 6/10, Gore 1/10, Visuals 8/10, Action 5/10, Entertainment 7/10.70%

Steven R. Monroe should have made I Spit on Your Grave 3 rather than this mediocre exorcism flick. I can praise the solid opening (the sex and bath scene) and the very decent visual and make-up effects, but this subgenre just doesn't have much to offer anymore. It lacks scares, the atmosphere isn't great, there could have been gore, but considering how many exorcist crap is coming out, this one is among the better ones. 55%

M. Night Shyamalan in good form. The Visit has the makings of the best horror film of the year. The film clearly pokes fun at Paranormal Activity in particular, but also most bland ghost films, and it manages to perfectly terrify with a mere pair of old without the use of any CGI, visual or make-up effects (It Follows just shakes its head in incomprehension). The film moves quite quickly, with scares, frightening, disturbing and chilling scenes being thrown at us from a quarter of the way through – thumbs up to Shyamalan, I was afraid I wouldn't see anything until the last few minutes. It's shot in a realistic way, the found footage form doesn't get on my nerves, there's no noisy, low-quality and epilepsy-inducing shots, the sequences with the grandmother are very scary (the hide and seek sequence and the final scene with the duvet are great), and the final, for me completely unexpected and shocking twist is one of the best of this year. Shyamalan, this was a good value ride!!! Story 8/10, Atmosphere 10/10, Scares 8/10 Gore 1/10, Visuals 7/10, Action 6/10, Entertainment 9/10. 90%.

This film is branded as a comedy demon splatter, but the director's humour is zero, the gore is there, but the tempera colour is too evident for me, and, unfortunately, by the end it is quite annoying and you wish it was over. It is only worth seeing if you listen to metal and like blondes, and because of the pretty good make-up effects, otherwise I found it very weak, naive and at times even embarrassing. Story 4/10, Atmosphere 4/10, Gore 5/10, Visuals 5/10, Action 4/10, Entertainment 5/10. 45%

Ridley Scott is back in the game, kicking ass not only with this uncompromisingly intelligent sci-fi survival ride, but also with science, math, physics and chemistry. Matt Damon delivers an Oscar-worthy performance, his ingenuity and skill is eerily precise to the point of slick, and he undergoes an incredible physical and psychological transformation (admittedly I was expecting a deeper psychological breakdown, with hallucinations and psychosis, after all, prolonged solitude messes with a person). I'm also not sure if all the heroic acts in the ending could have been done realistically, but fuck that, it's clever, funny, moving, suspenseful, and by the end the goosebumps are inevitable. What an experience! 9/10

I saw the first mentions of I Spit on Your Grave III about two months ago and I had tears of joy in my eyes and an erection that fell a week later after I learned that the director this time was not Steven R. Monroe, but the director of the mediocre Mischief Night. I figured maybe he'll improve, after all, the best exploitation franchise of all time isn't going to be entrusted to just anyone. Well, as soon as I saw the first teaser I knew something was amiss here and my prediction was sadly correct. I Spit on Your Grave III has one attraction, Sarah Butler, but that's not enough. The film takes a long time to get going, with almost 40 minutes of nothing but conversation, and you hope that it will at least pick up at the end, but no, these two directors clearly have no idea how to make a proper exploitation flick. This is no longer rape & revenge, but a naive killing spree in the dark streets where we only get one gore scene, albeit a very good one (while the second film made our balls hurt, this one makes your whole dick hurt), but the rest of it was rather sloppy and very underused. Fortunately I wasn't bored, the film went bay fast, the cute school girl style outfits and the nasty evil bitch were good, and at the very end there’s a rather gnarly disposal that pulls it up to at least average, but this is disappointment of the year, it buries the run-up to the best horror franchise since Saw. Hopefully it will repair its reputation in the fourth part. 50%

Nice stuff and it's going to the top immediately. The opening theme song is fantastic, there’s a beautiful Christmas atmosphere, excellent make-up and visual effects, fun, a good pace and not only is the gore nicely done, but even the scares work (one of them made me fall out of bed). We have four stories intertwined but not interconnected. The best is definitely the one with Santa Claus fighting zombie elves, and there is no shortage of severed heads or scalps. In the second, we get to see an evil child with a crave for blood and the closest thing to hand are his parents. In the third, we have a group of friends who break into a school to film a documentary, only to be haunted by a ghost. And in the last one we have a family going on a Christmas trip, but instead of having a wonderful holiday they meet Krampus himself and have to fight for their lives. There are holes in the script in places, some of the acting and stories don't make sense at times, the ending in particular is very strange, but we only get such nicely made Christmas-themed horror films once every 10 years. Story 6/10, Atmosphere 8/10, Gore 7/10, Visuals 8/10, Action 7/10, Entertainment 8/10. 80%

A nice surprise. Hidden, despite its slower pace, is quite entertaining and from the second half onwards it is a decently suspenseful post-apocalyptic horror film that relies on three actors who perform convincingly. The whole thing is unpredictable in a way, you are curious to know what is actually hiding out there, and that is good. The decent visuals, the working suspense, the mysterious atmosphere, the short running time and the action packed ending makes Hidden a nice above average film. Story 6/10, Atmosphere 8/10, Gore 4/10, Visuals 7/10, Action 5/10, Entertainment 6/10 70%