It just wouldn’t feel like a Halloween Fifteen if I didn’t include a film adaptation of a Stephen King novel. As I’ve noted in the past, movies based on King’s literary works have a notoriously uneven track record. To me, 1983’s Christine is more a product of its director, JohnContinue Reading
The Last Voyage of the Demeter is based on a single chapter of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. The novel that has spawned hundreds of spinoffs of its own in film, literature, and popular culture didn’t warrant a two-hour movie focused solely on one of its 27 chapters, did it?Continue Reading
The name Vincent Price is synonymous with the classic horror genre. His iconic roles in films like House of Wax, The Fly, and Theatre of Blood have cemented his legacy as a master of the macabre. If you happen to be looking for a single film that encapsulates his fullContinue Reading
Andrew Cumming’s Stone Age horror film, Out of Darkness, immediately reminded me of 2022’s Prey. It takes a group of people with primitive weapons and pits them against an unseen threat. The difference here is that the adversary doesn’t have high-tech weaponry. But it does have the upper-hand by havingContinue Reading
When Jaws broke box office records in the summer of 1975, there were bound to be knock-offs. As fast as possible, filmmakers the world over marched out a cavalcade of similarly-themed killer animal movies. If it wasn’t a shark doing the dirty work, then it could be virtually any animal.Continue Reading
Two of my favorite genre actors are Tom Atkins (Night of the Creeps) and Bruce Campbell (Bubba Ho-Tep). Both are capable of livening up any film in which they’re cast. To see that they appeared in a movie together was like a dream come true. Unfortunately, in 1988’s Maniac Cop,Continue Reading
1982’s The Slumber Party Massacre is a prime example of the generic 80s slasher film. It’s chock-full of oversexed teenagers and lame excuses to get those same teenagers naked and/or dead. You know, all the cliches and tropes that typified the genre and, eventually, of which audiences eventually grew tired.Continue Reading