Gates of Gore's Independent Horror Reviews

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...