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Gates of Gore's Top 10 Movies of 2007

10. Splatter Beach ~ Camp Motion Pictures was steered in the right direction with this film as their first in-house production. Directed by the Polonia Bros. and starring Erin Brown and Erika Smith, I thought this film had a really great feel of those old 50's beach movies mixed in with the creature features. I've been a fan of the Polonia Bros. for quite a while now, so it's really awesome to see something new from them. 9. Basic Slaughter ~ Steve Rudzinski's first attempt at making a slasher film was quite impressive by my standards and this coming from someone who basically worships slasher films. Steve did an awesome job and I hope that maybe there will be a sequel coming...maybe in 2008. 8. Dead Clowns ~ Not actually made in 2007, but was officially released this year by Lions Gate, I thought it definitely deserved to be mentioned as one of Gates of Gore's fave in 2007. I mean, come on....you get some great scream queens like Brinke Stevens, Debbie Rochon and R

Basic Slaughter Review

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A mysterious person, dressed from head to toe in all black and wielding a machete has come to the town of Rotary, Pennsylvania with one thing in mind....butcher as many people as this person comes in contact with. Why is this person killing? Will anybody survive? Will anyone care? Probably not because after all, it is just BASIC SLAUGHTER! Basic Slaughter is the latest film from writer/director Steve Rudzinski, who is known for his films....Legends and Wolfster. What's so different from these films? Basic Slaughter is not meant to be comedic in any shape or form. This is a pretty straight forward slasher film with some funny moments and a high body count. I was quite surprised with Steve's first effort at making a slasher film. Sure, a majority of the characters were annoying, but when they get butchered in various ways, you don't really care about them...you just want to cheer for the killer. I did think that it was really cool that A Nightmare on Elm Street was mentioned

Book of Lore Review

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Ricky's girlfriend has just turned up dead and he gets handed what looks like a composition notebook known as "Book of Lore"...which is an encyclopedia of local murders that happened in his small town. Strange things begin to happen and more bodies start piling up as Ricky and his friends try to uncover what's really going on. Can they stop the evil that has returned to this town? Chris LaMartina first introduced us to the "Book of Lore" in the anthology film, "Dead Teenagers". I remember getting to review that film and thinking..."what a great idea that would be if "Book of Lore" was made into a movie." It was a total surprise that it was indeed going to become a film on it's own. After viewing "Book of Lore" it came to my mind that I had just watched what I consider the best film of 2007. Don't get me wrong, there's been some going movies of this year, but none of them had such an impact on me, especially

Camp Slaughter Review

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Last year I was browsing through Netflix looking for some horror movies to rent when I came upon a movie called "Camp Slaughter". I had known about this flick, but not what it was about. After reading the synopsis for it, I knew it was one that I had to rent. Sadly, when it got here, I never even had to chance to watch it. I thought that was a bummer. However, I finally got to watch it this year and realized that I sure missed something when I first rented it. It's 1981 and the counselors and campers at Camp Hiawatha are having a really good time. They are singing around the campfire and just having a blast. 2 of the campers sneak off into the woods to have a little fun of their own, but it's not too long when someone murders them (ala Friday the 13th). Fast forward 24 years later. A group of friends are heading to Maine when they all of a sudden get stranded in the middle of nowhere. It's late at night and their SUV will not start, so they stay in the vehicle all

Video Violence 2 Review

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As I sit here and wait for the official release of the VIDEO VIOLENCE double feature DVD to come out, I thought I'd go ahead and write up my review for VIDEO VIOLENCE 2, which happens to be quite rare on VHS. I found my copy a few years back and only paid 13 bucks for it, while I recently checked again and saw it for 100 bucks. Is it really worth that much? Well, no. No movie in my opinion is worth $100.00 unless it comes complete in a set and possibly a DVD, but VHS isn't worth it. Good thing I found it back then and I grabbed it before anybody else could. Enough about me talking about myself buying movies....onto the review. If you all will remember, the first VIDEO VIOLENCE flick took place in what else, a video store. However in this sequel, the 2 miscreints from the first one...Howard and Eli...have now moved on to pirating their own cable access channel and we are treated to a variety of homeade splatter/snuff flicks from their loyal viewers, along with some of the kookie

Skin Crawl Review

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Director: Justin Wingenfeld Cast: Julian Wells, Debbie Rochon, Kevin G. Shinnick, Armand Anthony Mazza, John Fedele, Rodney Gray, Heidi Sjurssen For a few years now, back in 2004 I think, I had been paying close attention to a film called SKIN CRAWL. I had seen the trailer for it when I bought a copy of SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE. I could tell that it was going to be my kind of flick. Not only does it have the talents of Julian Wells and Debbie Rochon, but it was also about witches, which I have a little secret about, but I won't say what that it right now. I knew that it was making the convention rounds, but I was trying to by what I saw. SKIN CRAWL was quite an experience. A woman named Margaret, who happens to be a descendent of witches from 3 centuries ago, is having troubles in her marriage. Her scum of a husband, Howard, is having an affair and his mistress suggests that he have his wife killed, so they can collect the inheritance. When Margaret is murdered in cold-blood, they think