Gates of Gore's Independent Horror Reviews

Directed by: Tony Masiello and Tim Ritter Remember the good old days of USA Up All Night back in the 90's? Those were the best times and those great memories were brought back with Zombarella's House of Whorrors. Very beautiful and very busty Zombarella presents it's viewers with a SOV suck fest called Tales From the Mausoleum from director Fred Olen Wood. We are also presented with lots of commercials, trailers and 1-900 numbers to titilate your senses. First of all, I didn't know what I was in for when I started watching Zombarella's House of Whorrors, but from the very beginning I smiled the entire time. I remember staying up late night watching these kinda of programs including all those adult 1-900 numbers and this film made me extremely happy. Some of them were a bit ridiculous, but I had a lot of fun watching them. I think my favorites are 1-900-Get-Cream and 1-900-Date-A-Mate. I'd call them if I could. I loved all the trailers that are includ...

Cast: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Richard Brake, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Dee Wallace, Danny Trejo, Sid Haig Director: Rob Zombie After the shootout with the police, Otis, Baby and Captain Spaulding are finally apprehended and sent to prison. 10 years later Otis, with the help of half brother Foxy escape from police custody and go on a bloody rampage determined to get Baby released from the joint. Now reunited Baby, Otis and Foxy decide to head to Mexico to hide out, but there's an unexpected surprise awaiting for them that could be their final standoff. 3 From Hell takes place right after the events from The Devil's Rejects and was really shocking because that shootout should've killed them, but my some miracle they survived and are finally sent away for their bloody, brutal crimes. I think that The Devil's Rejects had the perfect ending, so we really didn't need a follow-up, but you know what? It worked! Sheri Moon Zombie and Bill Moseley return...

Cast : Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, Anson Boon, Jose Palma, George Somner, Ami Metcalf, Morfydd Clark, Annamaria Serda, Savannah Steyn Director: Alexandre Aja As a Category 5 Hurricane is approaching, a young woman and her father become trapped underneath their family home. Desperately trying to escape the rushing water that is flooding the house, they are also being hunted by man-eating alligators and now it's become their biggest fight for survival. I have always been a huge fan of disaster films, especially when it comes to massive weather situations, but what's even better is when they include a horror element with it and that's what we get with CRAWL. When I first heard this movie was being made, I was so happy. However, my excitement became even greater when I found out that not only was Alexandre Aja sitting in the director's chair, but Sam Raimi was producing it. Now I knew that this movie was going to be killer and man, was I right....

Cast: Dani Kind, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Romeo Carere, Steve Lund, Maria Nash, Naleda Majola, Richard White, Sara Canning, Celina Martin Director: Danishka Esterhazy It's Harley's birthday and his family has a big surprise for him, tickets to attend a live taping of his favorite TV show, The Banana Splits. As the adults and kids begin filling the studio with excitement, the head of the network has announced that they are pulling the plug and this will be The Banana Splits' final episode. However, this doesn't set right with The Banana Splits themselves and they go on a bloody, murderous rampage. The original Banana Splits TV show was way before my time, I wasn't born yet, but thanks to cable, the show aired in reruns, so I had the chance to check out this wonderfully psychedelic kids show and it was amazing. More than 40 years later it was announced that The Banana Splits was going to be turned into a horror movie and I was completely appalled by this i...

Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman, Brian Tyree Henry, Mark Hamill, Tim Matheson, Marlon Kazadi, Beatrice Kitsos, Ty Consiglio Director: Lars Klevberg A young boy named Andy receives an interactive Buddi doll from his mother as an early birthday present, but what he doesn't know is that this particular doll had previously been maliciously reprogrammed and will soon go on a gory killing rampage all in the name of a best friend. Hollywood is still at it with all these remakes and now we get CHILD'S PLAY. Why? I get that they don't have many ideas of there own, but why mess with this franchise that is actually still going strong. The last one just came out 2 years ago, but what can we do? We just don't have a say in the matter. With that being said, let me talk about this film. I was a bit hesitant going in because the original CHILD'S PLAY is such a classic and for the most part, remakes are a bit of a disappointment, unless you get the right people invol...

Starring: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chase Crawford, Tomer Karon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Elisabeth Shue Have you wondered what it would be like if your beloved superheroes were really bad and corrupt? Well, that's what you get with the new series now streaming on Amazon Prime and that series is called THE BOYS. Based on the comic book series of the same name, THE BOYS is about a young man named Hugh, who teams up with a few vigilantes to seek justice after his girlfriend is killed by one of his childhood heroes  named A-Train. Billy Butcher, the leader of THE BOYS has his own agenda against the head superhero known as Homelander and wants his own vengeance. As the series moves on, we learn so many secrets as to where these superheroes actually came about and it's shocking. I, for one am not a comic book fan at all, except for very few movies that I did like, but I was actually p...

Cast: Zac Efron, Lilly Collins, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Dylan Baker, Jim Parsons, Angela Sarafyan, Hayley Joel Osment, James Hetfield Director: Joe Berlinger In 1969, a young woman abd mother named Elizabeth Kloepfer  meets a charming man named Ted Bundy and from there, their relationship grows. As Elizabeth thinks she has finally found the man of her dreams, Ted is keeping a dark secret from her that he is a serial killer. As his crimes finally comes to light, Elizabeth refuses to believe the truth that is staring her right in the face. I was very excited when I found out that Netflix was releasing this film and seeing the trailer made me even more happy. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is a very well made film, told through the eyes of Ted's ex-girlfriend Elizabeth that is based on her revealing tell-all book, The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy, which I would love to pick up and read for myself. Unlike other real life ...

Cast: Stephen Dorff, Vanessa Grasse, Sam Strike, Lili Taylor, Chris Adamson, Finn Jones, James Blood, Jessica Madsen, Sam Coleman Director: Julian Maury and Alexandre Bustillo After the murder of a Texas Ranger's daughter, young Jed Sawyer was taken into custody and placed in a mental hospital. 10 years later, Jed was given a new identity for his own protection. After a revolt from the other patients, Jed and a few others escape into the Texas badlands with the Texas lawmen out for blood and the Sawyer clan out to retrieve one of their own. Blood will be shed and Leatherface will be born. What the hell was this? I'm not usually hard on any movies. I always give them a biting chance, but it felt like a chore just to get through it and that hurts me. Leatherface is a prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise and I was so disappointed. I actually felt like I wasn't even watching a Texas Chainsaw Massacre film at all. What they gave us was a character-dr...

"I am Øystein Aarseth, aka Euronymous and I was brought to this world to create suffering, chaos and death. This is my story and it will end badly." Cast: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Sky Ferreira, Anthony De La Torre, Johnathan Barnwell, Valter Skarsgård, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht Director Jonas Akerlund Based on the book of the same name, Lords of Chaos centers around Euronymous, guitarist and founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. In 1987 Norway, a teenager known as Euronymous becomes obsessed with creating a whole new musical genre he calls true Norwegian black metal with his band, Mayhem. But as years go by and the band's popularity begins to rise, a power struggle ensues that leads to a very  brutal murder. The very first time I ever heard of Mayhem was back in the 90's when my family received a copy of The Watchtower. Reading the details of the shocking events that occurred has stuck with me for more t...