Man's Best Friend (1993)

When TV reporter Lori Tanner (Ally Sheedy) gets a tip that something evil is going on at EMAX, a research company, she sneaks in to get the story. Once inside, she discovers the work of Dr. Jarret (Lance Henriksen.) Jarret practices vivisection on lab animals. Lori finds animals in cagesContinue Reading

I Walked With A Zombie (1943)

Betsy Connell (Francis Dee), a Canadian nurse, is sent to tend to Jessica, the wife of sugar baron Paul Holland (Tom Conway) in the West Indies. Jessica acts as if catatonic. Traditional Western medicine says that she suffers due an injury to her spinal cord. After exposure to the island’sContinue Reading

Critters (1986)

Following the success of 1984’s Gremlins, a wave of movies featuring small, creepy creatures hit theaters and video store shelves. Movies like Ghoulies, Munchies, and Hobgoblins. Combining comedy, horror, and compact-sized monsters much like Joe Dante’s blockbuster, these films were aimed at a younger audience than gory slasher films. WhileContinue Reading

Crawl (2019)

Haley (Kaya Scodelario) goes to check on her father (Barry Pepper) during a hurricane in Florida. She finds him unconscious and injured in the crawlspace of their old house. Unfortunately, he’s not alone. Alligators have injured him and cut off any escape route. Due to an evacuation order, no oneContinue Reading

Murder Party (2007)

Homebody Chris (Chris Sharp) has his Halloween night plans all set. He’s rented some cheesy horror movies and is prepared to make some pumpkin bread. On his way home from work, he finds an invitation to a “murder party.” Intrigued, and with nothing better to do, he constructs a costumeContinue Reading

For three years, young Tony (Simon Nash) has been having bad dreams about his father’s disappearance. Tony believes that his dad was taken into the sky by a beam of light. Tony’s mother, Rachel (Beatrice Steger,) thinks that he merely walked out on them. She’s moved on and has aContinue Reading

1963’s Blood Feast is well-known (and deservedly so) for essentially creating the template for the modern “splatter” film. There is no doubt in my mind that make-up artists like Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead) and Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London) would have chosen other career paths hadContinue Reading