For this review of "Cannibal Ferox", I will dispense with any sort of clever introduction and skip right to the meat of the matter. (Pun intended) If you aren’t interested in reading about the DVD release of one of the most violent and [...]
Just before he went to work on his now infamous "Dawn Of The Dead, " director George A. Romero created a movie that had vampirism as the central premise. Don’t expect a romantic gothic Transylvanian tale of count Dracula or one of his breed. [...]
When people watched "Saving Private Ryan" in theaters, many were shocked by the display of violence in the film, especially during the first 30 minutes, claiming that it was such an atypical attitude for director Steven Spielberg. Since it is [...]
As a child during the 1960s I spent many wonderful nights watching horror movies on the local Chiller Theater-type TV shows. I was an easy audience back then: if it had a monster or if someone was being chased or got melted or transformed in any way, I [...]
When we think of genre films from Japan, we generally think of rubber monster suits, "Pokemon", or Anime. Well, apparently Godzilla, Pikachu, and Akira are all out of town, because Synapse Films is bringing us the darker side of Japanese film [...]
With every new release of a movie by cult director Tim Burton, viewers can rest assured that the vision they are presented with in each particular film is a rather unique one, no matter how familiar the thematic itself may be. Burton managed to flesh out [...]
When, some years ago, I first read Anne Rice’s novel "Interview with the Vampire", I was impressed by the unique, romantic view she used to explore the vampire subject. Ever since the publication of the novel, the genre has been turned upside [...]
In the mid-eighties, horror was searching for a new identity. The slasher cycle was all but dead, and the wave of zombie films was beginning to run its course. While filmmakers in America were floundering in rehashed ideas (save for films like [...]
"I can see the Dead!" – no, you are not reading the review for "The Sixth Sense" – this line opens Italian goremaster Lucio Fulci’s "City Of The Living Dead, " which is also known under its alternative title [...]
So, Guido gives me the DVD of "The Abominable Snowman" and says, "I want you to review this. Have you seen it?" And I replied, "Not Yeti." (OK, now that I’ve gotten my Yeti joke out of the way, on with the review!) [...]
