Finally, a horror film without the unnecessary addition of 14,000 CGI effects, buckets of blood and a bevy of stupid, half-naked teenagers. The Blair Witch Project is a testament to what makes a film truly scary: your runaway imagination trying to cope with the unseen evils in the dark. TheContinue Reading
Apt Pupil is a hard movie to review. Not because I don’t know how I feel about it, but because I don’t know why it was made or the audience it was aiming for. If it was intended, as some suggest, to show how the Nazis gained influence over thoseContinue Reading
If you like your horror movies cheesy and somewhat on the bizarre side, you may want to check out The Granny, a 1995 schlock-fest from writer/director/star Luca Bercovici. But, be warned, it’s not exactly as good as that build-up sounds.The granny in question is played by Stella Stevens. She’s a richContinue Reading
I remember when I was in fifth grade, I sneaked downstairs late at night to sneak a peek at the original Halloween when it was on HBO. I was mesmerized and scared to death at the same time. “The Shape,” aka Michael Myers, was a chilling and oddly fascinating character.Continue Reading
Not to be confused with 1998’s Michael Keaton vehicle, this direct-to-video horror flick may feature a living snowman, but that’s about where the similarities end. This Jack Frost concerns a serial killer who, by way of a freak genetic accident, is turned into a killer snowman. Obviously, with subject matter like this,Continue Reading
After 1992’s abysmal Alien 3, the masterminds at 20th Century Fox just had to find a way to bring back Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) for one last go round in the Alien universe. One would think that after five years of brainstorming and script options, they would have created aContinue Reading
Before watching this movie, someone told me that it was the worst film they’d ever seen. Now, when someone tells you that, you just have to watch it. Don’t you? Well, I did, and it’s not the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Not by a long shot. However, it doesContinue Reading