I am typically not a friend of contemporarized horror motives, meaning horror films that take classic horror icons and transplant them into our modern day world. Vampires, werewolves and such are gothic material and in my book have little place in a [...]
In a sense you would think both horror franchises had run their course, but both, the "Friday The 13th" "Nightmare On Elm Street" series are now coming back with a vengeance. As was hinted at in 1993 in "Jason Goes To Hell" [...]
With "28 Days Later" British director Danny Boyle tried his hands at the zombie genre and created a movie that is superbly thrilling and horrifying. Borrowing liberally from every zombie film conceivable, such as "Day of the Dead," [...]
In recent times, there seems to be a lack of ideas in Hollywood that is scary, leading filmmakers to tackle ridiculous remakes of perfectly good films. The "Psycho" remake, certainly made a laughing stock out of its participants, and the [...]
It’s been years since I last saw George A. Romero’s "Day Of The Dead" on Anchor Bay’s initial release of the film and I remember not being overly impressed with the quality back then. It is film that poses some challenges to any video [...]
I will be frank with you. I have never been a fan of Rob Zombie, his image, his band, or his music, and as such I approached his directorial feature film debut "House Of 1000 Corpses" with reluctance. I will be entirely honest with you however, [...]
Exactly two years after releasing "The Howling" on DVD for the first time, MGM Home Entertainment has now prepared a Special Edition for the film and is unleashing it onto DVD owners. Alongside John Ladis’ "An American Werewolf In [...]
To many, Gary Sherman’s "Dead & Buried" is one of the horror highlights of the early 80s, and everyone who’s seen the picture will immediately agree that it is an extremely effective and atmospheric horror film that perfectly blends 80s [...]
In case you haven’t heard yet, Hong Kong horror films are in many aspects very different from American fare. As a result they require a very different mindset, and sadly, consequently these films are often misunderstood if not ridiculed. The same [...]
When I first heard about "Below" I knew that this was a movie for me. A film about a haunted World War Two submarine penned by Darren Aronofsky, directed by David Twohy, and starring the vastly underrated Bruce Greenwood is a can’t miss [...]
