Wes Craven 's A Nightmare on Elm Street is a landmark film in the history of screen horror.  Blurring the lines between dreams and reality, and introducing one of the genre’s most unique and frightening screen monsters ( ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2007-10-10 01:29 - 0 comments

PG-13 horror films can be tricky affairs.  They must walk a fine line, trying to be frightening and suspenseful without being too horrific or graphic.  When not done well, they can seem bland, silly, or both.  However, when don ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2008-03-31 01:00 - 0 comments

personal data Lon Chaney Jr. February 10, 1906 July 12, 1973 Most of the classic Universal Studios unforgettable fiends from the 1930s and ‘40s were played, at different times, by mult ...

Person - Eric Miller - 2008-07-01 14:10 - 0 comments

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the 1994 companion piece to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), is directed by star Kenneth Branagh, and co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola and James V. Hart (the director and screenwriter, res ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2007-08-13 16:31 - 0 comments

If an ancient Egyptian mummy began to menace a retirement home in East Texas, what would he be called?   Why, Bubba Ho-Tep of course!  And who better to defeat them than JFK and the King of Rock and Roll?  This epic battle ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2008-07-04 01:31 - 0 comments

“If I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know if it was really me?” The Thing is horror master John Carpenter ’s remake of the 1951 film The Thing from Another World , which stars James A ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2007-04-13 00:00 - 0 comments

Since Bram Stoker first brought the tale of Dracula to life in 1897, the story has been told and retold countless times on screen. Directors such as F.W. Murnau, Tod Browning, Terrence Fisher and John Badham have all offered up different ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2007-07-09 21:44 - 0 comments

Richard Attenborough is not typically a director that one associates with screen horror, his name usually calling to mind such sweeping epics as Gandhi, Cry Freedom , or Chaplin . However, in 1978, Attenborough broke tradition ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2008-04-03 01:00 - 0 comments

Scream 2 is one of those rare sequels that reunites almost everyone from the original, on both sides of the screen. Horror master Wes Craven is again coupled with screenwriter Kevin Williamson, while Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, Davi ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2007-10-12 01:59 - 0 comments

What if Mary Shelley was not a novelist, but an historian? What if Victor Frankenstein was a real person and not merely a character? What if a 21st Century scientist created a monster worse than Frankenstein? These questions are add ...

Movie - Eric Miller - 2007-10-05 01:01 - 0 comments