This movie starts and ends faster than anything I have seen in a while.  This means two things: 1. it has a breathtaking pace, and 2. it is pretty short, which, in this case, is not so much a flaw as it is a shame.  It simply ru ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2006-11-15 00:00 - 0 comments

I wish I could tell you that Santa's Slay , a movie starring a massively muscular Jewish professional wrestler as a murderous Santa Claus, was so spectacularly bad that it was a laugh riot. I wish I could tell you that Santa's Slay was ...

Movie - Timothy J. Rush - 2007-12-22 01:59 - 0 comments

I have to admit this: I don't get out much, and when I do, I rarely visit local theaters. Having confessed that, I viewed Wolf Creek in a Ft. Lauderdale theater during a recent excursion to Florida. My vi ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2006-04-12 00:00 - 0 comments

Hostel is a film so ridiculous, so filled with unbearable lapses in logic, and so devoid of anything remotely based in reality that it exists in my mind solely as a tawdry blueprint of how not to construct a horror film. The amazing box ...

Movie - Dana Gravesen - 2006-07-19 00:00 - 0 comments

I am willing to accept that most every attempt at horror that Hollywood puts out is going to be hack. Above this, I can still usually find something at least mildly enjoyable in the typical Hollywood horror ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2005-06-08 00:00 - 0 comments

I'm not a huge rap fan, but the latest slew of zombie flicks ( Resident Evil , House of the Dead , the Dawn of the Dead remake) kind of reminds me of that Dr. Dre song "Forgot About D ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2005-06-27 00:00 - 0 comments

Amid grief-inducing torture films like Hostel and Wolf Creek , and, on a much different part of the map, NBC’s ever-so-entertaining child predator stings on To Catch a Predator came the release of Hard Candy , a ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2006-12-12 01:00 - 0 comments

What's great about horror flicks like Scream is that, while not being truly original, they take what's been done before and transform it into a refreshing package, infusing new life into th ...

Movie - Kairo - 2005-11-28 01:00 - 0 comments

The Descent is British director Neil Marshall's second offering after his cult hit Dog Soldiers , and again sees his foray into the horror genre. While Dog Soldiers was a cheap but cheerful and thoroug ...

Movie - Kairo - 2006-08-01 00:00 - 0 comments

Former U.S. President Andrew Jackson once stated he would rather face the entire British army than spend one night in the Bell house. While that’s a resounding endorsement of the Bell Witch’s creepiness, a real-life, well-docum ...

Movie - Chris Justice - 2007-01-31 00:57 - 0 comments