Picture this, if you will. A group of miners are trapped in an enclosed space with a big monster on the loose trying to kill them one by one, and the company they work for is responsible for it. You may be thinking “Ah, Alien” right? WRONG! 10 years after …
Read More »Leave All Expectations At The Door And Just Let ‘H.P. LOVECRAFT’S THE OLD ONES’ (2024) In
I confess that I am a little bit late to the H.P. Lovecraft show. I’ve certainly watched horror films that were based on his work, but I have only recently started reading his writing. With that in mind, I was very excited to review Chad Ferrin’s new film H.P. Lovecraft’s …
Read More »The Remake We Never Knew We Needed: ‘DAWN OF THE DEAD’ (2004) Turns 20
The announcement that Zack Snyder (300, 2006) would be remaking George Romero’s classic, Dawn of the Dead (1978) (read our retro review here) got a resounding, ‘that’s sacrilege!” from myself and my crowd, which, at the time, the only place we would be screaming this other than toward each other was …
Read More »The Very Real Horror Of ‘THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT’ (2009) – Retro Review
There are a few films in my personal collection that I consider particularly brutal, and I only watch them once every so often. They’re not exactly light-hearted entertainment. The subject matter is gritty, real, and drawn out to an uncomfortable degree. Very realistic. Wes Craven’s original The Last House On …
Read More »Peacock’s ‘PATHOLOGICAL: THE LIES OF JORAN VAN DER SLOOT’ – Review
If you’re looking for a true crime documentary that will make you feel all of the emotions, look no further than Pathological: The Lies of Joran Van Der Sloot. A recent release on Peacock, it provides an in-depth look at the man who killed not only 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, …
Read More »25 Years Of ‘THE RAGE: CARRIE 2’ (1999) – Retro Review
Poor emotional regulation apparently runs heavily in the White family genes. 25 years after the release of Stephen King’s novel, and 23 years after the award-winning film adaptation of Carrie (1976), we learned that the legacy of the White family had hardly stopped with Carrie (Sissy Spacek, Castle Rock, 2018), …
Read More »Kyle McConaghy’s ‘SHEEP’S CLOTHING’ Explores Christian Dichotomy
Available now on demand from Amazon Prime, Sheep’s Clothing directed by Kyle McConaghy, written by Kyle McConaghy, Nick Heyman and Aaron Pfifer. Sheep’s Clothing stars Aaron Pfifer as Mansa, Nick Heyman as Pastor, and Sean Heyman as Terry. Synopsis A violent attack leaves high school principal Mansa Harper with a …
Read More »Psychological Thriller ‘SECRET WINDOW’ (2004) Celebrates 20 Years
If there’s one person capable of capturing the psychological unraveling of a tortured writer, it’s Stephen King. His novella, Secret Window, Secret Garden was published in the collection, Four Past Midnight (1990). It depicts a writer whose life is in shambles and whose mind is sure to follow. Adapted for the …
Read More »‘IMAGINARY’ (2024) Is Another Instant Horror Hit From Blumhouse – Review
Blumhouse has done it again. From M3GAN to Five Nights at Freddy’s (our review), the LA-based production company has been dominating the PG-13 horror space over the past few years. And it’s newest addition to the family — Imaginary — is yet another eerie delight. A few days before the film’s official March 8 release, …
Read More »Gillman, How I Love Thee…’THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON’ (1954) Turns 70!
For the most part, the Universal monster films I saw as a kid (Saturday afternoons when I was a wee lad on WUAB 43 out of Cleveland, Super Host!!) were pretty engrossing to my pre-adolescent mind. Lugosi’s Dracula was creepy, as was Karloff’s muted menacing in Frankenstein, but the full …
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