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40 years later an unpublished poster it has come to light

Holocaust Cannibal, 1980 (Ruggero Deodato)

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One of the best classics of B movie.

108 years ago it’s director was born.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956 (Don Siegel)

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Top 10 of the biggest disasters of Sitges

Top 10 of the biggest disasters of Sitges

𝟏𝟎. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆

Revenge thriller in rural america. The silencing is not exactly a disappointment, we just don’t understand why it has been selected for the official section of the sitges festival.

Unfortunately, this does not mean that we have liked it, it´s a product that we do not think can completely satisfy anyone, it doesn´t add anything that we have not seen before, it´s a very…

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31 Days of Halloween 2020: Day 23

I Saw the Devil (2010) Kim Jee-woon

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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), dir. Tom McLoughlin

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It’s better than safe. It’s death proof. DEATH PROOF (2007) dir. Quentin Tarantino

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“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?”

THE WITCH 2015 | dir. Robert Eggers

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Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI Directed by Tom McLoughlin (1986)

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Halloween (1978)

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We can never go back to Manderley again. That much is certain. But sometimes, in my dreams I do go back to the strange days of my life…

REBECCA (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Sam Raimi’s rules🔪🔪

Happy birthday to the splatstick chief!

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TOP 10 OF THE BIGGEST DISASTERS OF SITGES

Horror is the real, the realization, it´s the killer before you, the Nazis in power.

Horror has been with us from the beginning, since man is man. Not only some of us have learned to live whit it, but we like it when is with us.

We know we are not the only ones and yes, maybe, you are right, another digital magazine focused on horror cinema is not necessary but for us, horror is not just a cinematographic genre, we really believe in horror as part of our culture and terror as art.

In Surfing Horror you will find reviews but also curiosities, specials, tops and much more stuff related to horror. 

And we are born today in the best way possible, making the opening post about the biggest disasters of Sitges Film Festival.

Let´s do it!

𝟏𝟎. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆

Revenge thriller in rural america. The silencing is not exactly a disappointment, we just don't understand why it has been selected for the official section of the sitges festival.

Unfortunately, this does not mean that we have liked it, it´s a product that we do not think can completely satisfy anyone, it doesn´t add anything that we have not seen before, it´s a very insipid thriller and the main plot doesn´t end up being of interest at any time. 

Also, it has a slow and heavy rhythm that makes you look at the clock several times.

🔪🔪 / 5

𝟗. 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐒!

A hipster couple in their thirties decide to disconnect from everything and spend a few days outside the city without knowing that the world is suffering an alien invasion.

Once again we are faced with a very promising idea, but that's all it takes, a promise of a product that could have given a much more interesting result. At "save yourselves", we have science-fiction only as context, it is a mere excuse to present us with a comedy not very funny, dialogs without grace and some supposed middle-age problems that if you are not from the upper-class, you will not understand.

The film, maybe in another festival, would have been seen as a light comedy but sitges is not its place.

It's like if you go to a Metallica show and the opening act is Britney Spears.

🔪 / 5

𝟖. 𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐕𝐄

Failed attempt of the "man vs machine" debate. We can see the love for science fiction behind this film but we cannot feel it.

The pic looks wonderful, all the visual aspect of the film is very well taken care of and the atmosphere is very achieved but this is precisely the big problem, it seems that Gavin Rothery (director-screenwriter) has forgotten to tell us a good story. The script is not in the same level, there are too many unnecessary script turns (above all, the last one) and there are some characters out of place.

In "archive" everything is left to the end but it's too late for us to be interested.

🔪🔪 / 5

𝟕. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐎𝐑

In surfing horror, we also have a place in our heart for western, in fact, we love this genre but is not easy to mix it with horror and have a satisfactory result.

“The pale door” is not an exception, in the first hour we have a very little interesting western with empty characters and sets worthy of Ed Wood himself and in the last thirty minutes we have a witch film not more interesting than the western one. Genres are not touched at any time and the balance is non-existent.

Very ocassionaly, this explosive mix works, as on the case of the brilliant "Bone Tomahawk", however, this time, we have not had the same luck.

🔪 / 5

𝟔. 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐊𝐘

A father and his daughter decide to spend a weekend on the lake, meanwhile, a group of prisoners escape from jail.

We think that in cinema, especially in horror, it doesn´t really matter what you want to tell us, the thing is "how" you want to tell us.

When you see the short description of "Becky", you can imagine what you are going to find, and indeed, it will not blow your head off, but anyway, you want to have a good time and you are ready to have a good time. Half an hour has already passed since the film started, there is nothing you dislike but you feel that you could be watching something better, for example, the news.

We don´t think that "becky" is a bad movie, it´s just that it has nothing important to say or anything special to add to the genre. In the characters section we have a Lulu Wilson (Becky) that does what she can taken into account that her character does not make much sense. She plays a rebel teen that if things go wrong, she will not hesitate to become a mercIless killer. On other hand, we have Kevin James, who plays a very crazy Nazi but not enough to remember him as a first level villain. 

Anyway, we believe that it would have worked much better as a comedy and we would have liked that the script would have been more taken advantage off.

🔪 / 5

𝟓. 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑: 𝐀𝐁𝐘𝐒𝐒

“Black Water: Abyss” is not a disappointment, it's just a movie that we have already seen a thousand times.

A group of friends decide to explore a cave and ... Surprise! There is a very hungry crocodile.

From the beginning, we can see that the film has many limitations; the tension is poorly maintained, the violence comes and goes in a very confusing way and it seems that there is no person directing behind the cameras.

If you really want to see a horror movie about dangerous animals, please, don´t watch this one.

🔪 / 5

𝟒. 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐒

A family decides to invite their neighbors to dinner at Christmas, what they don´t know is that they are carriers of an evil identity.

Again, we have an interesting premise, a good start and a promise that what we are going to see next is going to make us have a good time but this never comes. Despite having some very well gore moments, the rest of "hosts" is empty, none of the characters contributes anything and you are waiting and waiting for the turn but again, this never comes and when you got it, the movie is over.

The best: a few very well gore moments.

The worst: there is nothing especially enjoyable other than a few good moments.

🔪 / 5

𝟑. 𝟏𝟐 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐅𝐓

In 12 hour shift we have an idea, that´s it. There's no more. You can feel during the whole long hour and a half that there is nothing else.

The characters and the situations are written with the intention of making us laugh and achieve just the opposite. We are left saturated and tired of eccentric unfunny characters and so many failed jokes. The worst of all is that it starts with an interesting premise but as we said, there is nothing else comes after that, a real pity.

The best: the starting point.

The worst: the rest of the movie.

0 / 5

𝟐. 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖

Take a concept, extend it until it has a feature film duration, insert absurd dialogues with tedious images full of neon lights and focus it on the indie public. The next step is to sell the product as it if were a surrealist and hilarious comedy.

The problem is that the joke is as funny as going to your grandma´s funeral and someone shits on her grave.

This is "she dies tomorrow"

The best: nothing

The worst: everything

0 / 5

𝟏. 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐀

Without any doubt, the crown jewel of disappointments of this edition.

We love zombies movies, the merrier the better, if the movie goes straight to the point, much better, if there are not too many sub-frames or too many secondary characters so that we don't get distracted with things that do not interest, much much better, and if in addition, it mixes the action genre with zombies to the perfection, we have one of our favourite movies of the last years.

All that is “Train to Busan”. That's why "peninsula" is so painful. It is not the worst of this top, it is not even considered a bad movie, in fact, you can get to enjoy (a lot) but we highly recommend that if you really want to watch it, please don´t do it thinking that this is a sequel of “train to Busan, because it isn't. It's an action movie with zombies, it's direct, entertaining and there's not too much time for sentimentalism.

The best: do you think that you can enjoy a hybrid between mad max and day of the dead? This is your movie.

The worst: it has nothing, but nothing to do with train to Busan.

🔪🔪 / 5