The 1957 Hammer masterpiece of suspense and building tension The Abominable Snowman (AKA The Snow Creature and The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas ) is a perfect example of why H ...

Movie - Aaron Edgell - 2001-06-09 00:00 - 0 comments

Cannibal Ferox (1981) is what could be the 'last great' or 'last worst' film in the popular catalogue of Italian cannibal films. It is often a contender with Ruggero Deodato's repulsive Can ...

Movie - Rob Wrigley - 2001-10-02 00:00 - 0 comments

April Fool's Day is the best tongue-in-cheek slasher flick I've seen so far from the 80's and the most prescient of Scream and its offspring. Through the guise of April Fool's Day pranks, ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-06-09 01:01 - 0 comments

My casual dislike for Italian director Lucio Fulci has been well documented. I thought that City of the Living Dead was atrocious, that Zombie was fun if slightly derivative, an ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2001-09-25 22:08 - 0 comments

Director Robert Wise's The Haunting begins with both guns blazing, so to speak. As a haunted house film, it starts beautifully--Wise lingers on an eerie black and white shot of Hill House while narration ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-01-06 01:00 - 0 comments

Poltergeist is one of those slightly enigmatic films, chock full o' flaws from many perspectives -- including my own -- that is able to rise above its countless gaffes and play like a minor mas ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-01-11 01:00 - 0 comments

Although I desperately try to not look at what anyone else is saying about a film before I write my review--out of a neurotic fear that my opinion will be influenced--I have to use the Internet to ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-01-02 01:00 - 0 comments

Based on Stephen King's novella "Cycle of the Werewolf," Silver Bullet merges Stephen King's distinctive American style of horror with werewolf mythology and a wonderful twist in a film slightly ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-07-23 01:01 - 0 comments

Although it's not likely to gain any converts among those who disliked the first film, 1999's The Mummy , The Mummy Returns won't displease any of us who loved that magical bandage adventure, ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-08-15 00:00 - 0 comments

I had a chance to read the novel that this film is based on before heading to the theater. My wife and I had seen previews for Valentine for a few months and when we discovered Tom Savage’s novel at Bor ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-02-03 01:00 - 0 comments