Hellmaster aka Soulstealer, is a 1992 horror film about a crazy college professor (John Saxon) who uses his students as guinea pigs turning them into crazed killers, according to Wikipedia. I had to watch this on a site called TubiTV because it wasn’t available for free anywhere else. LINK
Its exactly what it says on the box, its messed up, has some humour (intentional or not), some gore, a standard but confused slasher-fest with a few cool moments. It loses itself often. Hard to say if the writers even new or achieved what they were going for.
Terrified is a 2018 horror film from Argentina. A group of people experience poltergeist-like activity in their homes, weird things happen, a child comes back from the grave, paranormal investigators arrive, more weird things happen, a bizarre creature appears, and there’s an unresolved ending. Interesting rather enjoyable film. My subs were not the best, but it didn’t matter too much.
2.5 stars. Was enjoyable despite a language barrier.
★★★
#3 – Visions of Suffering (2006)
Visions of Suffering is a low budget Russian film from 2006. Its a lot of odd visuals, filters, effects, CGI, camera shaking and weird sound effects. Its also 2 hours long. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but according to Letterboxd:
A surreal world you may never wake from. Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
https://letterboxd.com/film/visions-of-suffering/
1.5 stars. It’s definitely weird, but it’s just too long and incoherent. The director/screenplay writer has some other films I will be checking out – if i can find them – because even with its problems it still was visually cool and definitely bizarre.
Going to try and watch 1 horror movie each day in October. Will I achieve this? Probably not. Will also do a very short review and star rating.
#1 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
The Final Chapter! Part 4! of 12 movies! I know I have seen 1 and 2, pretty sure I haven’t seen 3, or 4, until now. Four is…well, not much happens at all. Very slow until the last 25mins or so. There’s no big scares, there’s some horror but not much, and it doesn’t add anything we don’t already know to the mythology. Stars Corey Feldman, and Tom Savini returns for make up but he never gets a chance to shine (except for the Jason “death” scene).
2 stars. Nothing really happens, but its watchable enough.
