Sequels can be such a crapshoot. The good ones take a story you already love and advance it in new and interesting ways. The bad ones simply rehash the original in unoriginal ways, leaving the audience cheated of both their money and their memories of what made the first movie so good. Although there are […]
Directed by Maria Lee Metheringham, Pumpkins is a fun little movie. It’s not very scary, mind you, but there’s something special about it, something in the DIY ethics you feel in every frame, that makes you want to root for it despite its shortcomings. Set in the pasturelands of the north of England, Pumpkins tells […]
Maybe if it had a different title such as “Smile” or “The Tears of a Clown” and the main character that wasn’t tied in, however clumsily, with the DC Universe then director Todd Phillips and actor Joaquin Phoenix might have made something special with their tale of a troubled soul’s descent into madness. Because Joker […]
In terms of squirm, Replace easily gets a 10 out of 10. Watching this creepy tale of a woman who “cures” her extreme-dry-skin condition by replacing her flesh with the skin of others is deeply unnerving. You may find yourself hitting the pause button every time she murders a young woman and starts to harvest […]
“Unleash the horde!” It may not be the greatest line in cinematic history — or even the best line in Big Top Evil — but it sure does put a smile on your face when you hear it shouted out and then watch as the abandoned factory doors open to release a horde of murderous […]
There’s a great scene in the Tim Burton movie Ed Wood where the fledgling director meets with a sleazy Hollywood producer about a new project. “Is there a script,” Wood asks. “(Expletive) no,” the producer says. “But. there’s a poster.” It’s impossible to say if a similar conversation happened when the idea for Clownado first […]
There are a lot of words used to describe horror movies: Scary, thrilling, terrifying, gruesome and gory just to name a few. But when was the last time you described a horror movie as “joyous?” Watching One Cut of the Dead is a joyous experience, one that will make you hit play as soon as […]
There is always a temptation to prepare for a movie sequel, or in the case of It Chapter Two a continuation, to watch the last film in the franchise and refresh your memory of what happened before. Well, don’t. Part of the thrill of watching It Chapter Two is experiencing the way director Andy Muschietti […]
A rich and ruthless business tycoon, Cyrus DeKalb (Ray Wise), informed that he only has so long to live, gathers together his estranged children for a final family meeting, but instead of making amends he tries to murder each of them using complicated deathtraps worthy of a Saw movie. Sounds interesting, right? Now, what if […]
As Wikipedia explains, The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an American hour-long, packaged television variety program featuring the Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny animal characters: Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper (bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects). If you remember watching it back in the early 70s, the show’s […]
An evil presence possesses an inanimate object –or several hundred inanimate objects — and forces them to terrorize, torture and tear apart the residents of a small town. It’s a story that’s been told so many times before, in franchises ranging from the Chucky films to the Puppet Master movies, that it could almost be […]
And the Oscar goes to… Ok, the chances of Samara Weaving winning an Academy Award statue as Best Actress for her stellar work in Ready or Not are immeasurably slim, but that doesn’t mean her performance isn’t brilliant…because it is. Not only is she compelling and believable, something too many actors have a hard time […]
Two years ago genre fans watched a couple of girls climb into a shark cage and unexpectedly descend 47 Meters Down when the cable broke and the cage dropped to the ocean floor. As their air supply dwindled the girls had to face their fears, and the sharks they had been watching, to try and […]
For those unfamiliar with the source material, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is based on a series of Young Adult novels written by Alvin Schwartz that collected a bunch of urban legend style horror stories and packaged them as something you could read aloud to your friends and then scare them silly when […]
She may not have the cinematic celebrity of some of her kaiju contemporaries, but since first hitting the big screen in 1961 MOTHRA has always had a sentimental spot in the hearts of monster movie fans. Like Godzilla, MOTHRA is the product of man’s mishandling of atomic radiation, but unlike the big lizard, MOTHRA isn’t […]