People hate change. In psychology, we learn that any change, be it positive or negative, creates stress. There is even a scale listing the most stressful life-changes. The same is true when applied to movies. Audiences don’t like it when you mess with a [...]
1999 saw the return of supernatural horror with the success of "The Sixth Sense" and also with the release of "Stir of Echoes". Quickly on the heels of these films, came a wave of demonic/satanic themed films that also dealt with the [...]
With the wealth of information available to us from various media outlets today, film fans have more knowledge at their disposal than ever. Therefore, we know when a film is announced, when it begins shooting, when shooting is completed, and when it’s [...]
Almost everyone I know has small fragments of "Fiend Without A Face" lodged deep within their childhood memories. To a generation of addicts glued to the flickering of a late-night TV set, the monochromatic stop-motion brain monsters of the 1958 [...]
For most of my life, I’ve read anything that I could get my hands on that pertained to horror films. Starting from a very young age (and in retrospect, I was probably too young!), I would read about certain movies and then do what I could to try and see [...]
Hi folks. My name is Leonardo the Cat. My good friend Mike Long is taking a few days off, so I’m writing this review. Now, you may be wondering how a cat is qualified to review DVDs. Well, I’ve watched plenty of them with Mike, so I hope that I’ve [...]
When "What Lies Beneath" was trailered in theaters, I didn’t care much for the film because the story seemed predictable and the trailer obviously gave away most of the film’s highlights and plot points. As a result of this, what I [...]
There are not too many movies from the silent era of filmmaking that have built a reputation for themselves that lasts until this very day. Only few film have left such an indelible impression on multiple generations that everyone is intimately familiar [...]
Only two years ago, with the release of the 25th Anniversary Special Edition, we thought we had seen the ultimate version of the influential and utterly creepy "The Exorcist." Little did we know that the more-or-less-friendly controversy between [...]
During my tenure here at DVDReview.com, I’ve reviewed several films that were based on novels. Some of these were good adaptations, while others didn’t do justice to their source material. No matter what, none of them came close to being a [...]
