FROM BEYOND (full article at The Guardian Australia)

When HP Lovecraft sat down at his desk to write his short story From Beyond, did he picture, in his mind’s eye, Ken Foree in his underpants battling a giant worm, Barbara Crampton being attacked by a swarm of carnivorous flies, or Jeffrey Combs ravenously munching on a human brain? It’s fair to assume he probably didn’t, but director Stuart Gordon did and that’s precisely why the 1986 film From Beyond is a deranged, no-holds-barred body horror masterpiece.

Read the full article at The Guardian Australia:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/nov/08/from-beyond-is-deranged-obscene-and-encapsulates-everything-thats-great-about-horror-movies

IMDB: From Beyond

JAKOB'S WIFE (full review at Screen Realm)

Anne (Barbara Crampton) is married to small town minister Jakob (Larry Fessenden), although their marriage is in trouble. Jakob doesn’t listen to Anne. He speaks over her and on her behalf and his overbearing behaviour has Anne questioning whether she wants to stay.

So Anne reconnects with an old flame, Tom (Robert Rusler), but while out together they are attacked by a supernatural creature, turning Anne into vampire. As luck would have it, vampirism turns out to be just the boost she needs. Anne’s new found blood lust and aversion to sunlight come hand-in-hand with assertiveness and self-confidence.

Unfortunately you can’t be a vampire in a small town for long before somebody starts to notice. Local police begin to snoop around the various disappearances in town, and when Jakob discovers the truth, he and Anne set out to find and destroy the head vampire.
 
Read the full review at Screen Realm:
https://www.screenrealm.com/jakobs-wife-movie-review-vampire-horror/

IMDB: Jakob's Wife

REPLACE (full review at The Reel Word)

Replace, from writer-director Norbert Keil and co-writer Richard Stanley (Hardware), is a decent attempt at body horror/sci-fi cross-pollination, with a surprising reveal and a strange, almost ethereal style to it.

After a night out, Kira (Rebecca Forsythe) starts to suffer confusion and memory loss. At the same time she notices a patch of dry, eczema-like skin on her finger. In the hallway of her building she meets her neighbour, Sophia (Lucie Aron), and the two begin a relationship. After suffering a blackout, and with her hand getting worse, Kira visits Dr. Crober (Barbara Crampton) for treatment. Crober prescribes medication, but as Kira soon discovers: her skin can improve if she replaces it with fresh tissue from a living person. In desperation, Kira’s need for transplant flesh pushes her to murder and Replace starts to go a bit Frankenstein, as new parts replace old. Except here, it’s more a case of pre-emptive graverobbing.

Read the full article at The Reel Word:
https://www.thereelword.net/replace-movie-review-horror-2017/

IMDB: Replace