French film Martyrs is one of the most horrifying movies I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a whole lot. Director Pascal Laugier delivers a tale that comes on fast and shakes you to the core on a primal, visceral and intellectual level. Gore hounds will be happy as there’s plenty of nasty graphic violence on display, but it’s [...]

This 2007 remake of the 1978 classic confirms a few things: 1) Rob Zombie can direct effective and wince-inducing hardcore horror without the camp trimmings of House of 1000 Corpses or the misguided antihero road movie rape-and-kill romp that was The Devil’s Rejects. 2) However Zombie should not write his movies, especially a remake of one of [...]