The entire "Friday the 13th" series in a nutshell

By: Brandon Sites

Not sure what Friday the 13th film to watch this holiday weekend?!? Well, I am here to break down all the Friday the 13th films for you in a nutshell. Hopefully, this will provide you with the insight to make an informed decision. And remember, no swimming, drinking, smoking or sexing, if you want make it out of this weekend alive.

Remake: Technically well done, stylishly directed, but overall suffers from a lack of freshness. The story is too overly familiar and for a series known for innovative death sequences, the kills here are too paint by the numbers. Grade:  C 

Freddy vs. Jason: Why was this film called Freddy vs Jason? They might have as well called this A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 8, because Jason was a supporting character in his own film. This entry merged together two legendary horror characters rather clumsily. Grade:  C 

Jason X: Any time a series moves the action to outer space, that's usually a sign that the series has hit rock bottom. Jason X is no exception. Grade:  F  

Jason Goes to Hell:  It's an admirable thing to try to do something different to freshen up a long running series, but it's another to change the film up so much that it bears no resemblance to the other films in this long running series which is exactly what this final entry in the series is guilty of. Besides that, this entry fails to build up any suspense or terror and instead focuses on featuring gory, over the top set pieces with an emphasis on torture. However, the biggest problem with Jason Goes to Hell is the fact that Jason is barely on screen in his very own film! Grade:  F 

Dollar Bin Film - Maneater of Hydra

A group of tourists travel to an island to see its exotic botanicals. There they meet Baron von Weser, a reclusive scientist studying rare horticulture and experimenting with crossbreeding dangerous varieties of plants. One of the Baron’s creations is draining the blood of human beings (through a small hole in their cheek) and the tourists are dying one by one.

Dollar Bin Horror Review: Halloween III - Season of the Witch (1982)

By Eric Polk and Rhonny Reaper
Eric Here! This is an 80s flashback I just wish would go away along with New Kids on the Block and Yahoo Serious. Happy Halloween Reapling Nation and with our favorite time of year, I am once again inundated with lavish praise of the movie I'm about to tear to pieces from Generation Y and the Millennials.

Nightwatch (1997) - Dollar Bin Review

Who doesn't love serial killers? Who doesn't love some good old fashion necrophilia? Just joking! Just joking! Ewan McGregor stars in this remake of the hit film Nattevagten as a college student who takes a job as a security guard working the graveyard shift. He becomes the prime focus in a police investigation involving a necrophiliac serial killer who murders hookers. 

Mad Max - Dollar Bin Review

You might be asking yourself what does an action film have to do with a horror site? Well, if you have seen Mad Max then you know that it was the film that helped to kick off the post nuke craze. An element that defined post nuke films were the fusion of a horror like approach to the set pieces in an action film. When a film really nailed it, it resulted in some breath taking sequences. However, it seemed like every low budget film of the era jumped on this bandwagon and it effectively killed off this sub-genre since a lot of the output was nowhere near as effective as the original Mad Max.

The Echo - Dollar Bin Film

2008 - 96 mins. - Rated R
D: Yam Laranas
C: Jesse Bradford, Kevin Durand, Amelia Warner, Jamie Bloch, Hrant Alianak, Iza Calzado, Jayne Eastwood, Carlos Leon, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee

Young man released on parole goes to live in his deceased mother's apartment, but starts to hear odd noises and a couple living next door to him that is fighting all sorts of odd hours throughout the day.

Deadgirl - Dollar Bin Horror

2008 - 101mins. - Rated R
D: Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel
C: Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen, Candice Accola

High school misfits skipping school for the day break into an abandoned mental hospital only to discover a naked woman bound and gagged to an operating table that turns out to be a zombie.

Dollar Bin Film - Puppet Master 4

The killer puppets are re-animated just in time to help battle off some demons that are after the serum that brings life to the puppets.

Evil Bong - Dollar Bin Films

Group of pot smoking college students find themselves in a battle for their very souls after it turns out that their bong is demonically possessed.

Nightmares (1983) - Dollar Bin Film

Tales of terror involving a Midnight cigarette run that turns deadly when a housewife thinks that an escaped mental patient may be stalking her, a teenager whose obsession with a video game takes a lethal turn, a priest who has lost faith being hounded by a devilish rig truck and a giant rat on the prowl in a couple's upscale home.

Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust - Dollar Bin Film

Everyone's favorite killer pastry invades the sound stages of an infamous horror studio, known for low budget junk, intent on murdering the cast and crew as part of the necessary steps towards being able to transfer his soul into a human body.

Dollar Bin Film - The Initation of Sarah (1978)

College student is recruited to join a sorority that is seen as somewhat of the black sheep on campus by the more popular sororities. There, with the assistance of the house mother, she taps into powers that allow her to control objects whenever she gets mad enough.

Dollar Bin Film - Spring Break Shark Attack

Well just in case you couldn't figure out the plot synopsis from the title alone, here's one for you- Spring breakers become lunch meat for some hungry sharks. Oh and there is some roofies and attempted date rape along the way to add a little 50's movie flair.

New Year's Evil - Dollar Bin Films

1980 - 93 mins. - Rated R
D: Emmett Alston
C: Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace

Serial killer phones in a televised New Year's Eve party informing the hostess of the show that he is going to kill someone during each of the four major time zones with herself being the final victim.

Dollar Bin Film - "Trailer Park of Terror"

Group of troubled kids traveling with their pastor on a bus trip to go camping crash their vehicle during the middle of a storm. They seek shelter at a sleazy trailer park that is run by a vengeful woman who made a pact with the devil to collect souls in order to seek revenge. As the kids sleep or get into mischief, her and her undead henchmen find various gory ways to dispose of the kids.

Dollar Bin Film - "Angel Heart"

Private eye (Mickey Rourke) is hired by a seedy, mysterious man (Robert De Niro) to locate a missing rock star that owes him a debt, but the more he investigates, the more he becomes involved with a series of killings that are linked to him, because they all involve informants that he spoke to him.

Dollar Bin Film - "Mirrors 2"

The new night security guard at a store that is about to open finds himself having to solve the mystery of a former employee that went missing while people connected with the store are murdered by an evil presence connected with one of the mirrors from the store. 

Dollar Bin Film - 976 Evil 2: The Astral Factor

The demonic telephone number of the original has seduced another loner, another weirdo who commits a series of murders courtesy of said telephone number that allows his soul to project from his body whenever he falls asleep so that he can continue his murder spree while in prison.

Loosely connected sequel abandons the weird for weirds sake style of the original in favor of a more mainstreamed approach, but still remains just as poorly conceived.

Dollar Bin Film - Underworld

By: Brandon Sites http://bigdaddyhorrorreviews.com/

In Underworld, vampires and werewolves are in a war against one another, however a female vampire warrior finds herself falling in love with a werewolf who longs for the war to end. Underworld is one of those films in which vampires pose and posture a lot and try to act cool. Dialogue and story are irrelevant in this type of film. It's all about trying to emulate that in crowd factor.

My Bloody Valentine (1981) - Dollar Bin Film

By: Brandon Sites - Make Sure To Sign Up For My Giveaway of Aaah! Zombies!! CLICK HERE!

Love is in the air! With Halloween just around the corner, it has people anxious to celebrate their favorite day of the year or reminisce about the past.  In doing so, they are thinking about things they love. So they got me thinking about the past and the first time I viewed My Bloody Valentine.