Sometimes there's not much to say about a film that's sat in your heart since you were very short indeed. You can make all the critical arguments for or against it that you like, but the fact remains that no such to or fro will h ...

Movie - Nate Yapp - 2006-10-26 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

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

How do you top Re-Animator , one of the funniest fright films of the 1980s? How do you top a movie that features a severed, undead head going down on a naked Barbara Crampton?  Well, how do you?  A difficult task, but it&rsqu ...

Movie - Dan Haynes - 2008-01-18 01:15 - 0 comments

The sky is dark hours before dawn over a lonely stretch of highway outside El Paso, Texas. Thunder rolls across the desert expanse and a match is struck. Jim Halsey takes a drag from a cigarette an ...

Movie - Jason Jones - 2002-07-27 00:00 - 0 comments

Maximum Overdrive is best enjoyed on television with the benefit of commercial breaks, editing for time and content and hosted by Joe Bob Briggs; the shorter and easier to swallow, the be ...

Movie - Jason Jones - 2002-09-22 00:00 - 0 comments

Damn you, Horshack. Just when Jason was finally lying peacefully in his grave, Tommy Jarvis and Horshack from "Welcome Back Kotter" have to go and accidentally stick a lightning rod in his chest. W ...

Movie - Matt Mulcahey - 2002-12-12 22:38 - 0 comments

I'm not in with the in crowd who thinks that, almost by definition, sequels are inferior to their precursors, partially because I didn't pick up my ideas about criticism from the Scream fil ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-10-23 00:00 - 0 comments

After director David Cronenberg released his version of Stephen King 's The Dead Zone in 1983, he took almost a three year break from directing before tackling an even more unusual proje ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-12-17 01:01 - 0 comments

Deadly Friend , directed by Wes Craven - best known for Nightmare on Elm Street - has much of Craven's positive attributes, while at the same time bordering on a silliness that may turn ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2002-07-11 00:00 - 0 comments