. . . or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Live Without My Motorcycle." That's right, Spanish director Jorge Grau's 1974 homage-cum-sequel to George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" works not only as an allegorical [...]
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for previous "Saw" movies. Readers who have not seen these films may not wish to read further. The "Saw" franchise has proudly set itself as the premier model of the so-called [...]
We've certainly in the last few years seen quite a few comic book and graphic novel interpretations hit the big screen, some quite successful and some others not quite so. "30 Days Of Night" is the latest film version of a series of comics [...]
Although Orson Welles is frequently cited as the grandfather of American independent cinema, his contemporary Val Lewton deserves just as much credit for showing what could be done with very little money. In the 1940s, Lewton produced a series of [...]
What's that? Oh no, it's a man-eating tiger! Everyone, run for your lives! Oh wait, it's not a tiger. Oh my God, it's worse! It's a Sci Fi Channel original! RUN! In all seriousness, though, "Maneater" is yet another [...]
"Evil Dead 2" was released in 1987 onto the horror going public amid a little bit of confusion as to exactly what to make of it. For starters, it seemed to be a remake of sorts, since the entire opening sequence, basically recaps the first film, [...]
All movie stars have at least one movie in their past, made when they were struggling to be noticed, that they probably wish would never surface again. For Brad Pitt, that movie is "Cutting Class." Filmed in 1989 when Pitt was at the tender age [...]
Dario Argento has been one of the celebrated masters of Italian horror cinema since the 1970s, but his directorial output since the late 1980s has been largely disappointing to fans of giallo. It seems that he has never quite been able to measure up to [...]
French director Matthieu Kassovitz' first American film "Gothika" came out in 2003 to quite a few negative reviews. Most of his European films however have received much acclaim and you may actually recognize his face since he has also [...]
When a film is proclaimed as the "most notorious Japanese horror film EVER made" and has been banned for decades in its native country, you know you are in for something highly unusual. That is what is printed on the DVD cover art for [...]
