Boy it seems like it took me twelve years to finally sit down and watch ‘The House of the Devil’, a modest little horror movie that has sort of been lurking in the fringes since sometime last year, quietly asking to be seen. There’s nothing really outstanding about the film on the surface – no [...]

Without a doubt, ‘Friday the 13th’ ups the ante in terms of production value – it’s as slick as a barrel of oil and a hundred thousand times more expensive. But that wasn’t hard to do – the original movies looked fairly dipped in mud half of the time. One could argue that [...]

There’s something that just tires me out when I try to lay my thoughts down about a movie that no one probably had any high hopes for except for me. Saying you’re disappointed in ‘My Bloody Valentine 3D’ is like saying you’re disappointed that the ball you threw into the air fell back down [...]

In my post about the Wachowski’s Speed Racer a few months ago, I mentioned that I thought the last two Matrix movies were terrible. Then Brian Crane had to go and spoil my know-it-all-ness by saying he rather liked the last two movies, sending me into a reconsideration spiral – if Brian Crane is [...]

There seems to be little to no love in the world for the Wachowski’s take on ‘Speed Racer’. Granted, watching the commercials and the trailer, I figured it was a migraine waiting to happen. Considering how terrible the last two Matrix movies were (or, at least, how not-for-me they were), I figured [...]

So… ‘The Mist’. Slow as hell. Characters tend to do the “stand and stare” at oncoming danger even though they are intelligent enough to understand the social dynamics of their supermarket microcosm. Religion is, for some reason, portrayed as misguided and evil. Really? One of the good characters can’t take [...]

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[WARNING: I can't be troubled with trying to withhold spoilers. We've got bigger fish to fry.]
“Lifeforce” doesn’t aspire to be anything surreal, but it is one of the strangest movies I’ve ever seen. Not so much because of what’s in the movie, but [...]

‘Fear Itself’ has finally aired, the first episode being ‘The Sacrifice’. They put the show in ER’s old spot, which might be a vote of confidence or a sure way to make sure no one tunes in. I can’t tell. They’ve canceled their share of genius shows, though, right? Sure. [...]

‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ has finally arrived and it proves three things:
1) Practical effects are infinitely better than CGI unless your movie takes place in space. And even then, practical effects are infinitely better than CGI.
2) Lucas and Spielberg no longer have the magic touch.
And most important
3) I am [...]

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[WARNING: I would say this review contains SPOILERS - I pretty much take you through the whole thing - but if you've already read the title of the movie, than there's nothing much to spoil, so...]
This week, Final Girl picked ‘The Devil’s Daughter’, [...]

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Some movies make it all look easy. They were born into rich families, maybe. Or they were born with good looks. Brains. Natural athletic ability. Normal movies have to work and work just to be [...]

I saw 40 movies that were released this year. 40. Of about 300 or so. Yeah. It’s sad. There are probably spoilers here, so if you have a problem with spoilers, then stop reading, you big baby.
But anyway, here they are, in convenient list form, from worst to best.
‘Eagle vs. [...]

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SPOILER WARNING: There will probably be spoilers all over this thing, just so you know.
‘Suspiria’ was a movie that was built up substantially in my head during my pre-teen years. Maybe during my tweens? Whatever. I’d see the box at Moviemax, [...]

So I’ve been reading ‘Crystal Lake Memories’, the big book of ‘Friday the 13th’. It is, without a doubt, the best book ever written. My sincere hope is that the same folks – or heck, some different folks, I don’t care – do the same thing with ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’, ‘Night [...]

Every month, a cardboard box shows up on my doorstep. Although the box is expected, I never expect the box. But the box doesn’t tick and it’s light, so I take it inside.
I open the box and inside is… another box. I open that box and inside, under a couple pieces of [...]

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Zombie knows that we know that he knows that we know everything about ‘Halloween’. And as much as Zombie has made ‘Halloween’ his own, he can’t escape the fact that every frame is a reference to the original. So he [...]

I watched the movie “Disturbia” a couple nights ago and it was pretty good! Best part about it, though, was its trailer and here’s why: it managed to not show two big action-filled scenes that happen right at the beginning. It was pretty great to start this movie off and realize that I [...]

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Somewhere inside the movie “John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness” is the moment when the John Carpenter who made “Halloween” ends and the John Carpenter who made “Ghosts of Mars” begins. I’m not positive what that moment is, but it involves this guy:

And [...]

Saw “Feast” and “Slither” this weekend past. Both are fine movies, boast talented casts (though “Feast” has at least one truly poor casting choice in Navi Rawat) and take pride in subverting horror movie cliches in some pretty clever ways. “Feast” as at least one moment that will probably have you wondering how [...]

First, watch this so as to get some laffs before I start complaining:
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Yeah, so? I saw ‘Pulse’ with the missus this weekend. Strangely, it was motivated out of our recent obsession with Veronica Mars and not, as is usually the case with me, out of my lifelong obsession with horror movies. [...]

‘Emily Rose’ is a courtroom drama masquarading as a horror movie and it’s got exactly three things going for it, the most important of which being that there were two scenes with visuals frightening enough to induce adrenaline burst vertigo. Really – there were two cuts in this movie that made my head spin. [...]

I saw the remake of ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ last night. After being put off by Aja’s ‘High Tension’ last year, I still went after this one. Why not? All my horror friends were in town at one time and they could all catch a movie. This happens only once every [...]

I woke up today and at 9:30 in the a.m. watched the new version of “The Fog”. Any normal person wouldn’t wake up and immediately start watching a horror movie, right? But I’ll allow that there are many horror fans who would. But even amongst them, how many would be excited enough [...]

Watched Vamp two nights ago to see what what else screenwriter Richard Wenk (‘16 Blocks’) had done. He wrote and directed Vamp in 1986, a movie that got pretty good reveiws and, as I mentioned before, starred Grace Jones. Yet Wenk has only three writing credits to his name in the last twenty [...]