Found footage has very quickly become its own genre extremely fast in the horror world. That is why you shouldn’t be surprised that within the first four movies I have watched so far two of them fall into this classification. First, The Sacrament, and now Afflicted. I find myself a sucker for these films. Even though I am well aware that most of them will be plot-less garbage I seem to be drawn to the idea of the first-person fright fest experience. I’m glad Afflicted wasn’t a piece of trash.
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ANNABELLE
I managed to make it to the theater late tonight after work to see the baby of The Conjuring director James Wan, Annabelle. A little over a year ago when I saw The Conjuring I found that the part that resonated with me the most was the intro sequence featuring the titular demonic doll. I was fairly surprised when I heard they where going to take that and make it into its own feature-length film. I was on board!
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THE REAL STORY: AMITYVILLE HORROR
Tonight I had to pick something to watch with a short run-time because I had a prior football obligation. In fact, the poor Vikings probably felt more dread and despair tonight than any horror movie could generate in a soul-crushing 10-42 loss. GO PACKERS!
I decided to pick from a few documentaries on my queue and The Real Story: Amityville Horror happened to have the shortest length. This has been the third or fourth docu-style production I have taken in, not including some of the fictional movies, so I had a feeling it wouldn’t bring anything new to the table. I was mostly right, apart from an interview of the next door neighbors kid that grew up around the DeFeo family before the incident. Continue reading
THE SACRAMENT
Welcome to the Fourth Annual MASSACRE MARATHON!!!! I’m ecstatic at the very fact that you are reading this because it proves I’m not doing it for nothing! The Ole Manster woke from his hibernation only a few days ago so bear with him. Get ready for more horror movie reviews in the coming month than you could shake a bloody stump at! Without further ado…
Maniac Cop

Every once in a awhile a movie comes along that has a very simple effect on me. Maniac Cop was one of them. I thought it was OK. I could really end the review there. Continue reading



