Quirky, cheesy, less violent than its peers, and frequently kind of sweet, Sleepaway Camp is not your average 80s slasher film. There's no reason it should be -- it was made towards the end of the first slasher cycle (which ran from Hal ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2006-10-06 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

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

It was 1983 and the age of MTV. If video had really killed the radio star, he was resurrected on film as one of the most stylish vampires since Bela Blasko changed his name and donned a cape. Casting ...

Movie - Jason Jones - 2002-07-31 00:00 - 0 comments

Vacillating between moments of excellence and moments of extreme mediocrity, Cujo is enjoyable but ultimately a bit disappointing. Dee Wallace (who plays a fine genre mom -- she was the mom in E.T. , a ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2002-07-09 00:00 - 0 comments

There was a time where you could hardly get away with being a major horror film director without having at least one Stephen King adaptation to your name. Brian De Palma had one. So did Tobe Hooper and David ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2003-01-17 01:00 - 0 comments

The Dead Zone is a rare film that manages to be both a great literary adaptation, and a strong film on its own terms.  Adapted from a best-selling novel by Stephen King and directed by David Cronenberg, one might easily expect the fi ...

Movie - Dan Haynes - 2008-03-21 01:16 - 0 comments