What do you look for in a zombie movie? Is it sophomoric political satire, a script riddled with silly self-referential jokes? An all-star cast who sleepwalks through the film, most of them in glorified cameos that add up to little more than stunt casting? A story about the zombie apocalypse being caused by global warming […]
There is a long tradition of actors and actresses starting their career in genre films and going on to “better” things, like Kevin Bacon in Friday the 13th, Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun or George Clooney in Return of the Killer Tomatoes! It’s much rarer for one at the height of their career to do the […]
“The eye.“ That won’t make a lot of sense to you until after you have seen Brightburn, but once you have…well, it’s all you are going to be thinking about for a long, long time: “The eye.” That thing in the restaurant…that thing with the woman’s eye. In fact, just reading this, and remembering “the […]
A successful young couple, tired of living in their gorgeous San Francisco apartment, decide to look for an estate in Napa Valley where they can relax, start a family and live their version of the American Dream. It’s just their bad luck that the owner of the $3.2 million property they decide to settle down […]
The Curse of La Llorona tells a story that will feel very familiar to all horror movie fans, the story of a curse created by a horrific family tragedy in the past that travels across time to terrorize an unsuspecting family. In this case, the curse starts back a few hundred years ago when a […]
It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since Mike Mignola’s comic book creation, Hellboy, first came to the big screen in a live action film, starring Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy) as the big red demonic superhero with Guillermo del Toro directing. It made enough money to spawn a sequel four years later, Hellboy […]
Burned out at working the graveyard shift at a Boston hospital, Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) decides to seek a quieter life by moving to rural Maine with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two children, Ellie (Jeté Laurence) and Gage (Hugo and Lucas Lavoie). The quiet lasts about 24 hours. On his first day […]
“Oscar-winning horror movie” are four words genre fans don’t see strung together very often, but in 2017 they were deservedly wrapped around Get Out, the multi-layered masterpiece written, produced and directed by Jordan Peele. The film was nominated in four categories — Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Performance by […]
Too many horror movies try to separate themselves from the pack by increasing the amount of blood and gore they throw across the screen, hoping that if the audience is grossed out enough they won’t notice the weakness of the plot or the thinness of the characters. That’s why it’s such a refreshing experience to […]
I didn’t like Peelers. At least, I didn’t like it the first time I saw it. I didn’t like the story or the characters, the effects looked cheap and the acting was, to be kind, uninspired. But the ending shocked me; it thrilled and haunted me. It made me go back and watch Peelers a […]
It’s an almost true story that started way back in 1984… You don’t have to be a fan of Troma Studio movies to be familiar with their franchise freak, The Toxic Avenger. What started as an R-Rated horror/comedy about a wimpy health club mop boy named Melvin Junko who gets thrown into a vat of […]
Tsunambee. It’s a great title, a title that fills your imagination with images of wave after wave after wave of killer bees rolling over hundreds, perhaps thousands of ‘innocent’ people vainly trying to flee from the death by a million stings. (Those allergic to bee stings, if course, violently explode in a burst of blood, […]
Johnny Taylor (Randy Wayne) has big problems. Ever since his evil, but hot babysitter Debbie (Jessica Louise Long) tried to drown him in the backyard pool when he was a boy, he’s been so afraid of water that he won’t even drink it. Some 20 years after the incident, for some inexplicable reason, he takes […]
You sure do get a lot of movie with Chicago Rot: the revenge movie; the gory horror movie; the twisted fantasy film; and, the sometimes laughable ‘What the heck?’ movie. Not all the movies fit well together in a satisfactory way, but that doesn’t mean watching Chicago Rot isn’t a lot of fun. The film […]
Before they even walk in the door and the credits for The Belko Experiment can roll, the employees of Belko Industries know it’s not going to be a normal workday at their remote Colombian headquarters. Not only are there heavily armed guards checking every car entering the parking lot for explosives and contraband, but more […]