Hardly anyone likes going to the dentist for a check-up. There’s something inherently alien about having another person poking around in your mouth. When the possibility of pain is involved, it’s even less appealing. Capitalizing on that dread you experience every six months, 1996’s The Dentist will ensure you neverContinue Reading
Splatter University opens with a mental patient escaping from Bellevue Hospital in New York City. The movie’s headspace is telegraphed in the opening kill: an orderly is stabbed in the crotch. From then on, if you hadn’t been clued in by the performances or the bargain basement quality opening titles,Continue Reading
Director Tobe Hooper has garnered an excellent reputation with horror fans on the strengths of 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and 1982’s Poltergeist. Mr. Hooper sadly passed away in 2017. His later films, of which Mortuary is one, were received less enthusiastically by horror audiences. It’s hard to say howContinue Reading
A meteor impacts the Earth somewhere in rural Wisconsin. As it falls, it causes a disruption in the atmosphere that alerts NASA and the Strategic Air Command to its presence. NASA sends Dr. Vance (Steve Brodie) to the area to meet with local astronomer Dr. Langer (Barbara Hale,) who hasContinue Reading
Other than Jaws, there are very few really good shark movies to pick from. A few movie studios, like The Asylum, have embraced the fact that they’ll never be able to equal the best shark film of all time. So, they shoot in the opposite direction. There is no shortageContinue Reading
It’s another year and we get another cinematic incarnation of Count Dracula. This time around Nicolas Cage dons the cape and fangs. But, as you might have noticed from the title of the movie, Renfield is not focused solely on the Prince of Darkness. Nor is it merely seeking outContinue Reading
When gangster Frank Buchanan (Michael Granger) wants to get revenge on his enemies, he employs an oddly complicated way of doing it. He recruits a former Nazi scientist (Gregory Gay) to reanimate dead bodies to carry out their murders. I guess if you want something done, you’ve got to getContinue Reading