When you get right down to it, most mummy movies are more or less the same. Guy becomes mummy, mummy is awakened, mummy discovers reincarnated princess that he loved back in good 'ol Egypt and mummy deals with unrequited love and undead emo. ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2008-07-02 01:01 - 0 comments

Given the appropriate setting, many ordinary, innocuous things can be downright terrifying. Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is a wonderful example of what happens when ordinary sea fowl go very, very wrong, while Lewis Teague's Cujo insi ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-04-30 00:00 - 0 comments

During the 1960s, there was a small explosion of literature adaptation in the horror genre, the highlight of which was Roger Corman 's Poe Cycle, a series of films based on the work of American Gothic author, Edgar Allan Poe. Once the succ ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-07-25 11:14 - 0 comments

Not a week goes by that I don't ask our Editor-in-Creep if we can have a sheep here at the office. Unfortunately for my ovine aspirations, not a week goes by where I am not told that, no, we cannot have a sheep here at the office. It's a sham ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-10-21 01:41 - 0 comments

In 1983, David Cronenberg did something few directors ever really accomplish: he released a masterpiece. Videodrome , which is both written and directed by Cronenberg, is one of his best horror films, a fusion of many, if not all, the them ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2008-03-20 01:29 - 0 comments

Generally, I’m the first to say that movie adaptations of literary works need to be considered as separate entities from the progenerating material. Expecting unwavering faithfulness to the original work is not only an unreasonable requ ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2008-04-01 12:36 - 0 comments

Horror fans like vampires. It's a pretty simple concept, really, and one that you'd be hard pressed to refute. Over the years, they have developed a mythology both complex (how many ways can you kill a vampire?) and ridiculous (garlic anybody ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-04-06 00:00 - 0 comments

In the 1960s, Roger Corman directed a series of films based on the works of American Gothic author Edgar Allan Poe. While not always accurate to the source material, the Poe Cycle has come to represent the pinnacle of Corman's director ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2006-10-24 17:18 - 0 comments

Based on the Nebula-winning novel by Valerie Martin, Mary Reilly is an interesting reinterpretation of an old classic: Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Taking the original story of good and evil, and then sho ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-06-29 00:00 - 0 comments

I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm not going to be reviewing the film. If you want that, I suggest you go check out Nate Yapp's review of Grindhouse , the double feature experience of which Planet Terror was one part. Ins ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2007-12-07 01:01 - 0 comments