A retelling of a pair of Edgar Allan Poe stories by two master directors of the horror genre, Two Evil Eyes consists of separate, although thematically related, short films, one by George A. ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-11-09 01:00 - 0 comments

Frank Henenlotter , the director of Frankenhooker and other films I've had the pleasure to see, is someone I'd like to meet. If his movies are any indication of his character, there isn't a ...

Movie - Misfit - 2004-07-08 00:00 - 0 comments

William Peter Blatty was not involved in Exorcist II: The Heretic and he was quite unhappy with the result. He wrote his own sequel instead and called it "Legion." Upon filming it ...

Movie - Kairo - 2005-04-26 00:00 - 0 comments

Director William Friedkin's The Guardian is an excellent film that unfortunately suffers for a number of ridiculous plot developments in the climax. The plot is a bit loopy throughout, but Friedkin and th ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2002-07-20 01:00 - 0 comments

My favorite movies are the ones I can't forget. J acob's Ladder is such a movie. Disturbing on many levels, it engages all the senses and provokes our thinking in a way that few horror movies can. With ...

Movie - Kairo - 2005-03-21 15:19 - 0 comments

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is to Gremlins like Halloween 3 is to Halloween , or like Freddy vs. Jason is to… er… any other Jason and Freddy movie. I ...

Movie - Jenn Dlugos - 2004-12-06 01:00 - 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

Edward Scissorhands is a fairy tale/fable that lies somewhere between a retelling of Frankenstein and Pinocchio. It's more straightforward than you might expect from the mastermind behind Mars Attacks! ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2000-11-15 01:00 - 0 comments

Although it certainly has a lot of the superficial trappings of a classic "natural monster" horror film (as well as suggestions of other subgenres), Arachnophobia never really settles down ...

Movie - Brandt Sponseller - 2001-04-22 01:01 - 0 comments

Where Child's Play successfully used tightly wound, slowly released tension to assist an otherwise outlandish premise, Child's Play 2 is content to trim some of its predecessor's cinematic fat and get right to the point (of the bu ...

Movie - Dana Gravesen - 2006-07-13 17:23 - 0 comments