A photographer named Manley (Mark L. Taylor) joins up with an expedition led by Dr. Atherton (Julian Sands.) Atherton is exploring a 2000 foot sinkhole in Venezuela that has allowed animals to evolve without interference from the outside world. As such, there are new species of animals that have neverContinue Reading
Watching anthology films, especially those in the horror genre, can be an uneven experience if the included short films aren’t ordered a certain way. Trilogy of Terror, a 1975 made-for-TV horror anthology, is an example of an anthology that certainly saves the best for last. As one might be ableContinue Reading
Once a staple of the horror genre from the 1970s into the early 1990s, the pure slasher movie has been a rare find as of late. Since Scream offered a postmodern take on slashers in 1996, pure slashers mostly receded into the shadows of low-budget, direct-to-video releases. Those that madeContinue Reading
Martin (John Amplas) is a deeply disturbed young man. He arrives in the small town of Braddock, Pennsylvania to live with his much older cousin, Tada Cuda (Lincoln Maazel.) Cuda is convinced that Martin is one of three “nosferatu” — or vampires — that have stained his family’s name overContinue Reading
Poindexter “Fool” Williams and his family are the only remaining residents in an apartment building located in the Los Angeles ghetto. On his thirteenth birthday, Fool discovers that they’re about to get evicted. For being a mere three days late on their rent, the landlord wants three times the usualContinue Reading
A lightning strike topples a tree in the backyard of young Glen (Stephen Dorff) and his older sister, Alexandra (Christa Denton). After workmen remove the debris, Glen finds a small, but valuable, rock called a geode where the tree once stood. His best friend, Terry (Louis Tripp), thinks there couldContinue Reading
I’m a sucker for shark movies. Although no film is likely to ever top Jaws as the best shark movie of all time, I continue to watch any shark movie that I can get my hands on. Sometimes, the movies are surprisingly good, like Open Water, but usually they’re prettyContinue Reading