With "Ghost Ship", Warner Home Video is sending another variation of the haunted house genre into the race. Being not unlike "Event Horizon," "Deep Rising" and even films like "Virus," Steven Beck’s "Ghost [...]
He’s currently nominated for an Oscar for his work in "Adaptation" and he already won the coveted statuette for "Leaving Las Vegas, " but for me the benchmark Nicolas Cage performance arrived in 1989 with the pitch black comedy [...]
Just when you’re about to give up hope for horror films, along comes one film that restores your hope in the genre. To me that film is "The Ring." Although not flawless – not by any means – it is nonetheless one of the scariest film in [...]
Previously released in 1998 with nothing but a trailer, Elite entertainment has recently revisited the cult classic "I Spit On Your Grave" and prepared it for release as a "Millenium Edition." Fans of this gruesome exploitation shocker [...]
It seems like an eternity has passed since the inception of DVD and since those first days, fans have eagerly been anticipating the release of the 1958 Hammer horror classic, "Horror Of Dracula." The rights for Hammer films are spread across [...]
Released in 1987, Kathryn Bigelow’s "Near Dark" fused two movie mythologies – vampires and cowboys – and created a brooding horror film with faces bathed in dust as well as blood. Fifteen years after its theatrical release, the film [...]
If you’re looking for a full-out assault on your senses then look no further than "Blade II, " the latest offering in New Line’s Platinum Series DVDs. While it’s certainly not a film for everybody, there’s no denying that this is one of [...]
When talking about John Carpenter most people immediately think of "Halloween." When I think of John Carpenter, I immediately think "The Fog." After seeing publicity shots of the movie in 1978 I immediately went to theaters when the [...]
When director/writer George A. Romero and writer John Russo parted ways after doing the infamous cult classic "Night Of The Living Dead" together in 1968, they agreed that they both could use the "Living Dead" moniker for future [...]
Tom Shadyac’s supernatural thriller "Dragonfly" is making a very quick turn-around to appear on DVD after its lukewarm theatrical run earlier this year. Despite the criticism however, "Dragonfly" turns out to be a solid film with som [...]