Horror

Dead & Buried

January 14, 2009 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

The Stendhal Syndrome

December 17, 2008 // 0 Comments

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 gialli, a horror sub-genre of lurid, graphically violent murder [...]

Young Frankenstein

October 22, 2008 // 0 Comments

One of the funniest films ever made and clearly Mel Brooks' crown jewel, "Young Frankenstein" has made it to Blu-Ray Disc just in time for Halloween. The splendid homage to the classic horror films of the 30s and 40s, arrives in a [...]

The Omen Collection

October 13, 2008 // 0 Comments

Arriving for the first time on Blu-Ray, "The Omen Collection" offers us all four Omen films in high definition glory in one single box set. While the early Omen" movies are still considered landmark films and genre classics, the 2006 remake [...]

Interview With The Vampire

September 24, 2008 // 0 Comments

It is hard to believe it has been 14 years already since this movie first made it to theaters, but I vividly remember still how, when I first read Anne Rice's novel "Interview with the Vampire", I was impressed by the unique, romantic view [...]

Mother of Tears

September 19, 2008 // 0 Comments

In 1977, Dario Argento directed "Suspiria, " the first film in what became known as the "Three Mothers" trilogy that continued with "Inferno" in 1980, leaving fans waiting nearly 30 years for the final chapter. That chapter [...]

Brutal Massacre

August 12, 2008 // 0 Comments

The hot topic about "Brutal Massacre" is the fact that almost everyone confronting it is going to be uttering "Spinal Tap" within the same sentence as this nutty horror roast. That being said, is "Brutal Massacre" really the [...]

The Ruins: Unrated

August 1, 2008 // 0 Comments

In the 1970s, Carter Smith's "The Ruins" might have been a clever exploitation film on the drive-in circuit, made on the cheap with minimal visual effects and a cast of unknowns. In 2008, it is soft-core torture porn that quite literally [...]

Shutter

July 31, 2008 // 0 Comments

After so many recent disastrous remakes of foreign horror movies you would think that the executives who green light certain projects would get a clue, but instead they just keep cranking out these dreadful products, usually with mixed results, and this [...]

The Ruins

July 11, 2008 // 0 Comments

There are certain films that for some strange reason seem to ring true with certain people and critics and become successes despite the fact that they are steeped in mediocrity. "The Ruins" is clearly one such movie and I understand that I am [...]
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