Straight out of the 1980s came ‘Re-Animator,’ an amazing film that somehow took zombies, gore, comedy, and an unknown cast, threw it all…
It’s strange, trying to play the “numbers game.” Here we are, on the final day of the year 2020, talking about a movie…
Every so often, a company makes a bold, daring, unorthodox, out-of-the-normal-comfort-zone type of move, and it usually either pays off big for them…
When ‘Alien’ was released in 1979, it changed the landscape for both science fiction and horror. ‘Alien’ combined the two genres so well,…
It’s a Thursday, and it’s October, the “Halloween Season” …so what’s a combo Star Wars fan/die-hard zombie aficionado like myself supposed to do?…
City of the Living Dead isn’t your parent’s grandma’s cousin’s sister’s walking dead. These dead folk have a leader: a priest (Fabrizio Jovine),…
After he became a star in the independent film world with ‘Pi’ and ‘Requiem for a Dream’ – but before my mom heard…
This film — should you be lucky enough to see On the Silver Globe — is an exhausting, mad experience. An endurance test,…
Ah, the glory days of the Nintendo Wii, arguably the first wide-scale release of the groundbreaking three-dimensional “movement control” aesthetic of using your…
It can be a mixed bag when a “genre” director makes a foray into a category that he/she has never tried before. For…
‘Forbidden Planet’ is a science-fiction film made more than half a century ago that helped to define an era. Remembered for its fantastic…
Very few people remember the short-lived 3D resurgence of the 1980s. I think we, as a movie-going collective, realized the best thing to…
1951. WWII is finally over, but the Cold War is just beginning. NATO has been established to balance the Soviet Union threat to…
Ah, the promises of franchises gone dead. Particularly in the video game world, where companies live and die (and are bought-out and sold-out)…
The winter holidays are hard enough for horror fans, with all that peace and joy floating around like so much sugar plum fairy…