During the summer of 2001, when the typical "gee whiz" action films and gross-out comedies were invading theaters, a little horror film entitled "The Others" snuck into the multiplexes. Featuring a pre-Oscar buzz Nicole Kidman and a [...]
"The Hound Of The Baskervilles" is without a doubt one of the best and most acclaimed Hammer horror films that was ever created and as such, fans of the film have been eagerly awaiting the DVD release of this 1959 Christopher Lee and Peter [...]
The great thing about television mini-series is that it gives the creators ample time to tell the story. The bad thing about television mini-series is that it gives the creators ample time to tell the story. Some times, too much is way too much. The title [...]
There are certainly many horror films that justify the use of the term "seminal, " but if there has ever been a film that has had a profound impact on how the horror film genre has developed as a whole, George A. Romero’s "Night Of The [...]
Following the success of 1999’s "House on Haunted Hill", the production team at Dark Castle Entertainment (Robert Zemeckis, Joel Silver and Gilbert Adler) return to the William Castle library to remake another of his hits from the 60s. This [...]
This time, it’s all about the book. It amazes me to find that genre champion Anchor Bay Entertainment has found yet another way to serve up the phenomenally successful "The Evil Dead," this time seeking to wrest away upwards of $40 from Evil [...]
As Oscar time approaches, we begin to think about the best films of the year, specifically, which movie will win Best Picture. But, "Best Picture" is a terribly broad category, and it might help if we narrowed it down some. How about "Best [...]
For those who like to get technical when pigeonholing films, it seems that every genre has a series of sub-genres. In the early ’70s, exploitation films gave way to "Blaxploitation" films, which featured predominantly African-American casts. [...]
Quick question, has there ever been a film that was renamed for American distribution in which the new name actually improved upon the original? I didn’t think so. Such is the case with 1960’s "The City of the Dead, " an exquisitely crafted [...]
With the success of "Scream", we have seen a resurgence of the horror film in the last five years. However, for the most part, this new crop of scary movies lacks the punch that the horror films of the ’70s and ’80s had. Those older films [...]
