Larry Stanford (Peter Dyneley) is an international reporter assigned to cover the work of Dr. Robert Suzuki (Tetsu Nakamura,) who has supposedly made progress in the study of evolution. Stanford goes to Suzuki’s lab for an interview. The lab — which is curiously located in a remote, mountainous area outsideContinue Reading
It’s impossible for me to review 1986’s Trick or Treat without giving some context. When this film was released to theaters in October, 1986, I was a freshman in college. I was a devout heavy metal fan and had read about this movie for months in heavy metal magazines ofContinue Reading
One of the best-known slasher film tropes is that those who engage in casual sex are marked for death. David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows takes that cliché one step further. For one partner, having sex passes a mark of death onto the other. The recipient has to have sex withContinue Reading
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, “Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus” has been directly or indirectly referenced many times in motion pictures. The first such adaptation was a 14-minute short film made in 1910 by Edison Studios. Since then, there have been at least 40 filmed versions of the story of aContinue Reading
A photographer named Manley (Mark L. Taylor) joins up with an expedition led by Dr. Atherton (Julian Sands.) Atherton is exploring a 2000 foot sinkhole in Venezuela that has allowed animals to evolve without interference from the outside world. As such, there are new species of animals that have neverContinue Reading
Watching anthology films, especially those in the horror genre, can be an uneven experience if the included short films aren’t ordered a certain way. Trilogy of Terror, a 1975 made-for-TV horror anthology, is an example of an anthology that certainly saves the best for last. As one might be ableContinue Reading
Once a staple of the horror genre from the 1970s into the early 1990s, the pure slasher movie has been a rare find as of late. Since Scream offered a postmodern take on slashers in 1996, pure slashers mostly receded into the shadows of low-budget, direct-to-video releases. Those that madeContinue Reading