Paul W.S. Anderson’s early sci-fi horror effort, Event Horizon, is favored by only three-and-a-half critics, including myself (one critic was indifferent, thus I’m going to chalk that one up as a partial win). The film undeniably strikes a cord in its...
Helmed by Jim Minton, Exquisite Copse takes its name literally and twice over: The work is an aggregation of short horror films from an international cast of directors, based on the flash fiction and poetry of genre writer Michael Arnzen, and set to composer Michael...
Distraught that his penned sweat and blood was decimated with John Boorman’s cinematic abortion, Exorcist II: The Heretic, William Peter Blatty helmed the proper sequel to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist as he not only wrote the novel upon which he based the...
The few critics who bother acknowledging John Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic, the most expensive film produced by Warner Brothers at the time of its release, typically offer only a few scant, yet scathing, words about the production. Indeed, the work does stand to...
Scott Derrickson’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose is one part William Friedkin’s The Exorcist and two parts Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind. Not only are we given a feature in which, ultimately, religion is put on the stand, but the genesis for such is due to a case of...
