Around mid-2001, a French thriller was released in the States called With a Friend Like Harry . It was a chilling, blackly comic piece that some critics were calling neo-Hitchcock - which is, of ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2002-07-28 00:00 - 0 comments

Of the dozens of zombie films I have seen, from George A. Romero’s seminal Night of the Living Dead to Danny Boyle’s revisionist 28 Days Later , Zombi 3 is one of them. Far more notable for the stories behind its m ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-10-20 01:08 - 0 comments

Those grotesque brain eating zombies are back from the dead… again. This time the barrels that contain the dead and toxic gas known as 2-4-5 Trioxin drop off of a transport van and land close ...

Movie - Dellamorte - 2003-01-22 01:00 - 0 comments

The independent horror film may have exploded in the Seventies, but its continued success throughout the Eighties solidified it as a commodity. (And that’s just about the only good thing that ...

Movie - John W. Bowen - 2001-04-07 01:01 - 0 comments

Part of a string of high-concept, low-budget efforts from 80s schlock king Charles Band, Ghost Town features an intriguing premise and atmospheric photography, but little else works in this mel ...

Movie - Matt Mulcahey - 2002-09-14 00:00 - 0 comments

Terror unfolds for 6 school friends once they are invited to a hush-hush midnight showing of a new Waxwork in town. The museum is relatively homage to horror's innovative classic monsters, and more ...

Movie - Dellamorte - 2002-11-16 01:00 - 0 comments

What's so surprising about the Hellraiser franchise (if we may call it such) is that no sequel is a repeat performance of its predecessor. No - forget the parentheses: it should not be placed o ...

Movie - Chrissy Derbyshire - 2005-04-06 00:00 - 0 comments

...and at this point, the Nightmare series has officially gotten too old. Not to say that this is a bad movie, but it is definitely evident that the filmmakers have done as much as they can for the ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2001-06-30 00:00 - 0 comments

Although it suffers a bit for its slight embrace of cliches and consequent predictableness, in the end, Pumpkinhead overcomes this small flaw with style. Pumpkinhead is nothing if not atmospheric, and ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-04-09 01:00 - 0 comments

All great masters must occasionally fall to the Studio Compromise. George A. Romero is no exception. Monkey Shines is his first studio picture that looks like a studio picture. Though well ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2001-09-03 00:00 - 0 comments