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Stan Helsing (2009)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Bo Zenga

Starring:
Steve Howey, Kenan Thompson, Diora Baird, Desi Lydic

Other notable appearances:
Leslie Nielsen, Ben Cotton

Running time:
108 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Scary Movie 3, Superhero Movie, Disaster Movie, Epic Movie

 

Stan Helsing (Howey) is a deadbeat and selfish video store clerk heading out to a Halloween party with three friends. They need to make a detour and deliver some videos to the store owner’s mother on the way. What ensues is an unfortunate series of horror-related events that derail their plans. It falls to Stan and his friends to save themselves, each other and the town cursed by some of horror’s greatest villains’ b-grade knock-offs.

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Forsaken by J.D. Barker (2014)

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Page count:
386

ISBN:
9780990694908

 

Successful horror writer Thad McAlister has just written the best book of his career. While in New York to sell the movie rights, Thad discovers that his book may not be as fictional as he thought. The creatures from his novel have invaded the real world and now Thad must race against the clock if he is to save his family.

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Texas Chainsaw (2013)

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Review by CJ

Director:
John Luessenhop

Starring:
Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tremaine ‘Trey Songz’ Neverson, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Shaun Sipos, Thom Barry, Paul Rae

Other notable appearances:
Gunnar Hansen

Running time:
92 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Saw, Wrong Turn

 

Just before a road trip to New Orleans, Heather Miller (Daddario) discovers she is adopted and her birth grandmother has bequeathed a house in Texas to her. Heather and her friends decide to stop in on the way to Louisiana. What she doesn’t realise is that the house comes with a secret — a murderous, chainsaw wielding secret.

 

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Jack of Hearts by Christopher Greyson (2017)

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Review by CJ

Page count:
238

ISBN:
9781683990734

Jack Stratton is headed to Florida for fun in the sun and to introduce girlfriend Alice to his parents. What he doesn’t expect is to be nominated by his mother to help her book club solve the mystery of the garden ornament thief. When the mystery takes a deadly turn, will Jack be able to protect his family or will he have to fold?

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Annabelle: Creation (2017)

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Review by CJ

Director:
David F. Sandberg

Starring:
Anthony LaPaglia, Talitha Bateman, Lulu Wilson, Stephanie Sigman, Miranda Otto, Samara Lee

Running time:
109 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Conjuring, Annabelle, Lights Out

 

When their orphanage closes down, Sister Charlotte (Sigman) takes her six charges to live with a kind couple doing their Christian duty. What Sister Charlotte doesn’t know is that when Samuel (LaPaglia) and Esther (Otto) lost their daughter, they would have done anything to get her back — and they did.

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