According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a requiem is “a musical composition in honor of the dead.” Let us all hope that Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is titled as such because it marks the death of this series. The movie takes place immediately after the events of Alien vs. Predator. AContinue Reading
The Halloween movie series has had more twists and turns than any casual fan would (or could) care to remember. First, there was the original 1978 Halloween, a now-canonical slasher film, which was directed (and co-written) by John Carpenter and told the story of Michael Myers, a seemingly possessed murdererContinue Reading
The Invasion marks the fourth time that Jack Finney’s novel “The Body Snatchers” has been made into a feature film. The first film version was 1956’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, an allegory for the Cold War with the alien invader angle being a thin disguise for the perceived threatContinue Reading
30 Days of Night has a particularly inventive plot gimmick in its story of an Alaskan town. That town is Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost outpost in the United States. Due to its position inside the Arctic Circle, Barrow goes 67 days without direct sunlight. In the film, it goes pitchContinue Reading
In 2003, a little film called 28 Days Later helped reinvigorate the zombie movie genre. The creatures in 28 Days Later aren’t technically zombies, but rather humans infected with the “rage” virus. Like zombies, their only reason for existence is to prey on the living. Instead of possessing the shuffling,Continue Reading
White Noise was not a film that begged for a sequel. Unless, of course, that sequel was going to explain what the hell happened in the first film. (I’m still scratching my head over what it was supposed to be about.) Nevertheless, White Noise 2: The Light has been released and,Continue Reading
2007’s I Am Legend is a remake of a remake. In 1964, Vincent Price starred in The Last Man on Earth, a sometimes creepy, but mostly unintentionally funny, story of a man’s struggle to stay alive as he fought off hordes of vampires in a city. In 1971, Charlton HestonContinue Reading