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

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

Now here's a grisly little number. A lot of films have the title of "most sickening film ever made". Some even aspire to it. Try as they might, though, few directors were willing to cross barriers ...

Movie - Rob Wrigley - 2002-07-10 15:19 - 0 comments

Sure, it may not make a lot of sense for most of your first viewing, and some people might argue that it still doesn't make sense on subsequent viewings, but that's part of Phantasm 's charm. It ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-08-18 01:00 - 0 comments

Here's another film, like The Exorcist , that I have to rate highly because of its historical status more than its value in isolation. In isolation, or, at least seen outside of its particul ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-10-20 00:00 - 0 comments

Director Stuart ( Cool Hand Luke , The Pope of Greenwich Village ) Rosenberg's Amityville Horror certainly isn't a masterpiece, and it's not likely to win over a lot of younger, more super ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-01-09 01:00 - 0 comments

David Cronenberg’s 1979 effort The Brood would provide only a single scene for a highlight reel of his entire body of work. You want to like it, to call it a precious gem in Cronenberg's progression of films. You want to be scared, ...

Movie - Timothy J. Rush - 2008-03-19 09:08 - 0 comments

Salem's Lot doesn't have breathtaking cinematography, or an awe-inspiring score. There are lots of quirks in the performances. It doesn't have huge special effects. It isn't fast-paced. In fact, ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-09-28 22:12 - 0 comments

I can remember the first time I saw this, and I wasn't expecting much. I was anticipating a poorly acted exploitation movie. Good for a few laughs, maybe some halfway decent gore effects. Instead, ...

Movie - Misfit - 2001-05-27 00:00 - 0 comments

Lots of low budget indie movies are fun. Sometimes their own sheer inanity becomes their most endearing factor. Things like The Slime People , The Blob (the original) or Biohazard . T ...

Movie - Thomas E. Richardson - 2001-04-01 01:00 - 0 comments