Every sub-genre in horror has had its "golden years". For every type of horror movie, there has been one time, be it an entire decade or just a couple of years, when it was at its peak of both quality ...

Movie - Aaron Edgell - 2001-07-24 00:00 - 0 comments

Cannibal Ferox (1981) is what could be the 'last great' or 'last worst' film in the popular catalogue of Italian cannibal films. It is often a contender with Ruggero Deodato's repulsive Can ...

Movie - Rob Wrigley - 2001-10-02 00:00 - 0 comments

My casual dislike for Italian director Lucio Fulci has been well documented. I thought that City of the Living Dead was atrocious, that Zombie was fun if slightly derivative, an ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2001-09-25 22:08 - 0 comments

The Howling is one of the formative films of my own horror experience, important to me as The Wolf Man , Pit and the Pendulum, and The Evil Dead . True, it is a trifle of a film, a we ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-04-12 00:00 - 0 comments

Lucio Fulci ’s The House by the Cemetery is difficult to evaluate. As the last installment in Fulci’s classic zombie quartet (preceded by Zombie , City of the Living Dead , and The Beyond ), House r ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2007-10-18 01:01 - 0 comments

Halloween is one of the most subtle and effective horror films ever made. Frightening and intriguing, it leaves a lot of questions to which we have very few answers, especially concerning the invulnerability of Michael Myers (or, mor ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2007-07-21 17:45 - 0 comments

Horror films have been melded with almost every genre imaginable, but Wolfen must be the first socio-political werewolf movie. Yes, there are bloodthirsty wolves. But there's also points to be made about ...

Movie - Matt Mulcahey - 2002-09-21 00:00 - 0 comments

Director John Irvin's 1981 film, Ghost Story , based on a novel by horror fiction icon Peter Straub, is a charming but eerie sojourn into a niche of horror that covers most of the stylistic base ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-11-09 01:00 - 0 comments

The first of many sub-par follow-ups to a movie that was only average to begin with, Friday the 13th Part 2 purports to take place five years after the events of the original . While this is ...

Movie - Matt Mulcahey - 2002-12-12 22:38 - 0 comments

Hell Night loses points for its non-enjoyable kind of low-budget cheesiness, and teeters on losing more for a series of stupid plot moves designed to perpetuate its slasher-oriented existence. I say ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-07-06 00:00 - 0 comments