A retelling of a pair of Edgar Allan Poe stories by two master directors of the horror genre, Two Evil Eyes consists of separate, although thematically related, short films, one by George A. ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-11-09 01:00 - 0 comments

While not completely without merit, Werewolf suffers from a full complement of problems typical of direct-to-video releases. Unfortunately, these aren't all budget-related; some of the flaws ar ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2002-08-03 15:19 - 0 comments

Probably infamous Italian horror "maestro" Lucio Fulci 's most ridiculous film, New York Ripper ("Lo Squartatore di New York" in Italian) blandly genre hops to an awkward conclusion. ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-09-25 00:00 - 0 comments

Filmed back to back with The Reptile , another Hammer film, The Plague of the Zombies features not only members of the same cast and crew, but also some of the same sets and a simila ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-11-19 01:58 - 0 comments

When I first sat down to write my review of The Sect , I was surprised that the vivid images in my mind seemed to be fleeting. But then I realized how appropriate this is, since like almost all ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-10-04 00:00 - 0 comments

I know there’s a whole camp, comprised primarily of the folks who’d say that House of Dracula blows Ravenous out of the water when it comes to horror, who think the 1958 ver ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-07-01 01:01 - 0 comments

Lady Frankenstein has to be one of the most seriously underrated horror films of all time. In fact, it seems even that no one really knows about it, and it currently only has 175 votes on The ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-06-07 00:00 - 0 comments

It's hard to believe that the horror subgenre about "Machines/Technology Gone Wild" actually has a subgenre itself of "Evil Elevator" films, but it does, small as it may be. I suppose it's one ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-09-20 00:00 - 0 comments

The aesthetic differences in director John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer are evident from the opening shot. We see the lower part of a woman's face. We can't tell what the con ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2002-07-21 00:00 - 0 comments

It's not easy to make a Dracula film. Ever since Tod Browning 's 1931 version starring Bela Lugosi , at least, filmmakers wanting to create a version Bram Stoker's story--one of the defining ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-10-25 00:00 - 0 comments