In the early to mid-1970s, a slew of gangster movies hit theaters and drive-ins, inspired no doubt by the success of 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde and 1972’s The Godfather. Never one to miss the opportunity to cash in on a trend, Roger Corman’s New World Pictures produced and released BigContinue Reading
Before 2015, Adam McKay was best known for directing Will Farrell comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. After he co-wrote and directed The Big Short, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of the events leading up to the 2007 economic crisis, hisContinue Reading
It’s Christmastime and Maynard (Michael Shannon) comes home from work early one afternoon to find his wife (Christina Hendricks) and the sheriff (Ron Perlman) dressed in animal costumes and dry humping in the bedroom. Maynard doesn’t know what to think and, in a drunken stupor, he creates a makeshift gorillaContinue Reading
Born out of the movie series, Creepshow, which was in turn inspired by EC Comics’ titles like “Tales from the Crypt” and “The Vault of Horror,” Tales from the Darkside was a horror anthology television series that ran in syndication from 1984 to 1988. Each week, the series featured a differentContinue Reading
Roger Cobb (William Katt) is a horror writer whose life is unraveling. He’s recently been divorced from his wife (Kay Lenz); his son has gone missing; and his publisher is clamoring for a new book or he’ll be forced to repay the money he was advanced. And, to top itContinue Reading
Stephen King has written some of the best horror stories that have ever been committed to film. Whether it’s the car-gone-amok in Christine, the haunted hotel of The Shining, or the nightmarish clown of It, King knows how to twist something familiar and make it menacing. Not all of King’s storiesContinue Reading
After watching Threads a few weeks ago, the thought of how ridiculous, frightening, and, frankly, insane one has to be to comprehend “winning” a nuclear war was fresh in my mind. What has to go through the heads of people who dream up scenarios measured in megadeaths and Mutual Assured Destruction? Stanley Kubrick’s Dr.Continue Reading