The benchmark for how not to incorporate computer graphics and special effects into your script has arrived in the form of Van Helsing, a loud and senseless revamp of the Universal horror monsters of the 1930s. In one fell swoop, Stephen Sommers, who revitalized The Mummy in 1999, takes onContinue Reading
Vampires in leather. Werewolves dressed as street people. Matrix-like slow-motion action sequences. Incredibly beautiful people doing the unthinkable. And lots and lots of posing, posturing and preening. It might sound like I’m degrading Underworld for its many derivative elements. In fact, I probably should be. But, for some reason, IContinue Reading
Elvis and JFK are alive. It’s true. They’re holed up in a rest home in Mud Creek, Texas. Not only that, but they’ve discovered a mummy that is preying on the souls of their fellow residents. Although it sounds like something a drunken conspiracy buff would make up while he’sContinue Reading
Virginia (Jenny Wright) is addicted to trashy horror novels. She works in a used book store and she’s recently discovered the author Malcolm Brand, who wrote two particularly odd books in the 1950s. The first, Much of Madness, More of Sin, really creeps her out. So, she starts looking forContinue Reading
Animal activists break into a research lab to free some chimpanzees. Just seconds before they open the first cage, a scientist discovers them and tries to warn them that the chimps have been infected with “rage,” a virus that makes them killers. Of course, they don’t believe him and releaseContinue Reading
Let’s see what we’ve got on the horror-film checklist: Nubile young teens? Check. An isolated location with no modern means of communication? Check. No way out of this location? Check. Someone (or something) with an insatiable appetite for flesh and blood? Check. Yep, we’ve got ourselves a formula horror film.Continue Reading
It was a dark and stormy night. No, really. That’s how Identity begins its tale of psychological horror. A family of three are driving down a dark road during the aforementioned storm when their car suffers a blow out. As the father, played by John C. McGinley, changes the tire,Continue Reading