In 1968, George Romero revived the zombie genre with Night of the Living Dead .  In 1979, Lucio Fulci brought the genre full-circle by taking it back to its Caribbean voodoo roots in Zombi 2 (aka Zombie 1 ).  He al ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2007-10-17 01:01 - 0 comments

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 have been hurt by others. And I will hurt them. I will make them suffer like I have suffered." Thus begins The Sadist , horror cinema's best-kept secret. After Charlie's opening lines, a narrator (uncredited producer Arch ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2007-01-18 22:36 - 0 comments

Editor’s Note: This review covers the public domain Horror of the Zombies version, which is formatted to fit a standard television and features minor cuts for violence. Although Horror of the Zombies is the th ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2008-01-25 01:14 - 0 comments

If this movie didn’t have Bela Lugosi in it, it would probably have disappeared long ago.  Lucky for it, Lugosi plays a central albeit only functional role, so it is sure to be viewed at least once by anyone looking for lesser k ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2007-01-10 22:39 - 0 comments

Watching the first moments of A Bucket of Blood , viewers might be confused as to whether they should laugh at it or with it. The film starts at a beat club where a pompous hipster named Maxwell is reciting awful poetry that i ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2007-10-01 01:01 - 0 comments

Snakes are scary. Planes are scary. Therefore, snakes + plane = double scary. Right? The premise sounds like simple genius. The movie, however, is just simplistic. The content of the film does stay true to the title Snakes on a Pla ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2007-05-18 12:00 - 0 comments

King Kong is like Moby Dick .  Enormous animal theme aside, it’s one of those old great works that everyone knows about but that not many have actually seen for themselves.  It has become such a household name that r ...

Movie - Robert Ring - 2006-10-23 00:00 - 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

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