Category: Horror Movies

Rating: 4/5 Classification: R18+ Year of release: 1981 Run-time: 1 hour 25 minutes Director: Sam Raimi Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker Genre: Horror This review contains SPOILERS The Evil Dead is about five young friends take a vacation to a remote and isolated cabin in the Tennessee woods, not long after they arrive in the cabin little do they know they have just released flesh possessing demons. This movie goes without saying that it is a… Continue reading

Rating: 4.5/5 Classification: R18+ Year of release: 1978 Run-time: 1 hour 31 minutes Director: John Carpenter Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, Nancy Kyes Genre: Horror This review contains no spoilers “The Night He Came Home!” Halloween is about a man named Michael Myers (Tony Moran) who escapes from a mental hospital fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael returns to his small home town of Haddonfield to kill again. A horror classic in… Continue reading

Rating: 5/5 Classification: R18+ Year of release: 1973 Run-time: (Theatrical cut) 2 hours 2 minutes (Director’s cut) 2 hours 12 minutes Director: William Friedkin Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow Genre: Horror This review contains no spoilers The Exorcist is based on the novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty (who also wrote the screenplay for this movie) and is about a 12 year old girl Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) is possessed by a… Continue reading

Rating: 5/5 Classification: M Year of release: 1960 Run-time: 1 hour 49 minutes Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin Genre: Horror This review contains spoilers Psycho is based on the novel by Robert Bloch of the same name and is about a young woman Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) who is a secretary in Phoenix and is asked one day to bank $40,000 for her employer’s client; Marion decides to steal the money for herself… Continue reading

Rating: 4.5/5 Classification: R18+ Year of release: 1976 Run-time: 1 hour 38 minutes Director: Brian De Palma Cast: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta Genre: Horror This review contains spoilers “If you’ve got a taste for terror…take Carrie to the prom.” Carrie is based on the novel by Stephen King of the same name and is about a teenage girl with telekinetic powers named Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) who is a shy, outcast, friendless girl, and often a… Continue reading

Rating: 4/5 Classification: MA15+ Year of release: 1996 Run-time: 1 hour 51 minutes Director: Wes Craven Cast: Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich Genre: Horror This review contains spoilers “Do you like scary movies? What’s your favourite scary movie?” Scream is about an anonymous masked murderer on the loose named Ghostface (voiced by Roger Jackson) starts murdering teenagers based on their knowledge (or lack of) scary movies in the small Californian town of Woodsboro. I would not like… Continue reading

Rating: 4.5/5 Classification: MA15+ Year of release: 1984 Run-time: 1 hour 31 minutes Director: Wes Craven Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, John Saxon Genre: Horror This review contains no spoilers “One, two, Freddy’s coming for you!” A Nightmare on Elm Street is about a murderer named Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), with his trademark fedora hat, his glove that has knives attached to his fingers and a distinctive red stripped sweater, he haunts the kids of Elm Street in… Continue reading

Rating: 5/5 Classification: MA15+ Year of release: 1980 Run-time: 2 hours 26 minutes Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers Genre: Horror This review contains spoilers The Shining is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name and is about a family consisting of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), his wife Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) and their young son Danny (Danny Lloyd) who agrees to stay and look after the Overlook Hotel for the… Continue reading