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It’s a tricky thing to mess around with an already established franchise, particularly in the realm of prequels. Like the perils of time travel, one minor blunder can seemingly tarnish or muddy the carefully placed previous groundwork. Arkasha Stevenson’s debut feature THE FIRST OMEN is that rarest of unicorns, it stands gallantly on its own legs if need be but also serves to enhance the classic(s) that came before it. Beyond being easily one of the best in its home series, it also radiates as a much appreciated ode to satanic seventies cinema in general. Richard Donner’s gothic forerunner ha ..read more

I will forever be grateful to my late father for taking me and my brothers to see the raging pile of cinematic pandemonium known as HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980). Rarely has a film delivered such a schizo-mix of goofy guilelessness and pure exploitation. How can anyone resist a film brave enough to expose the epic confrontation between giant mutant fish men and the unflappable Troy McClure? Extra points scored when said flick features creature designs provided by none other than the brilliant Rob Bottin! This Roger Corman produced slime riot is cartoon-level silly for much of it’s runtime bu ..read more

Hi. I'm searching for a movie I watched as a little child by accident. It was hard gore stuff and very unusual to be shown by a state sponsored TV channel. It was one scene I followed before freaking out and turning the television off: POV of an creature and/or animal in a forest. It follows an unaware guy. Then it attacks, the guy is yelling and suffering. Then CUT TO: The guys dead body, eaten till his bones from his neck on, head and face weren't touched. Anyone has a clue about the title following my description? Best The post Name That Trauma: Devil Bob on Skeletal Remains first appeared ..read more

Anguish (1987) Very hard to describe but this is one hell of a film and definitely shouldn't be missed. A film-within-a-film thriller about a group of people who are terrorized in a movie theater by a killer while watching a horror film about a murderous optometrist looking for eyeballs who stalks his victims in a movie theater. It's very intense and highly original, do yourself a favor and see it. The Rosary Murders (1987) Here is a film not to be missed. Detroit is plagued by a series of murders (what? I don't believe you) of priests and nuns, with each victim found holding a black rosary ..read more

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The Ghost Ship (1943) An incredible film about a psycho sea captain which I can't recommend enough. This is a film way ahead of its time, containing all the elements of films made forty and fifty years later and it is made all the more striking in that it was practically a lost film for that entire time. I can only thank God that it was finally made available again. Wise Blood (1979) I think people forget Brad Dourif is a really good actor or that he had a career outside of Chucky. This film while perhaps not a conventional thriller or even a conventional film for that matter is as an extrem ..read more

Hello, awesome people of Kindertrauma! As a lifelong horror fan, I have heard time and again that scary movies are bad for me, will keep me from sleeping, have no socially redeeming value, and turn ordinary, sweet people into savage murderers. Sound familiar? I would take the fictional creations that scared me as a child over the real-life frights of being an adult. Taxes, the news, the cost of groceries and rent, the education system, the general public, influencers, skinny jeans, ads in paid streaming services? Far scarier than Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Killbots, Buffy St. John, or Creep ..read more

Hey-o.  There was a film that scar(r)ed me as a kid.  It was on TV in the early 90's.  I only remember one image before I turned the channel.  A man approaches a cheerleader from behind (or some girl dressed like a cheerleader).  His hand touches her shoulder, she turns around, and her face is all spooky and bloody/skeletal.  It's not Cheerleader Camp.  Help! Dom The post Name That Trauma:: Dom on a Skeletal Cheerleader first appeared on kindertrauma ..read more

Three films about killers in houses: FRIGHT (1971). THEY'RE PLAYING WITH FIRE (1984) and TORMENT (1986). Fright utilizes the babysitter-killer motif marvelously and is one of the best British horror films ever made. They're Playing with Fire is a highly entertaining film about a cougar seducing her student and utilizing his services in a murder scheme to gain an inheritance from her husband's mother and grandmother. Torment follows a cop on the trail of a serial killer who finds up setting his sights on his girlfriend who is staying at his mother's house, this is a fantastic little film with ..read more