Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, much like the maze in which we find ourselves during the feature, is an enigma of a work. For a general American audience, the film would undoubtedly be a sure-fire hit that is, if there ceased to exist an apprehension by lay...
A horror film that takes place aboard a spaceship or on another planet has always been a crapshoot when it comes to quality. Usually, within this very small subgenre, there are either great films, like Event Horizon or Aliens, or duds like Jason X and Hellraiser:...
I think if horror fans made one mistake last year it was not supporting this movie, P2 while it was in theaters. I myself did not have much faith in this film at all either. The trailer looked like every other horror/thriller film out there. The film was not promoted...
I have yet to see the movie [REC] which Quarantine is supposed to be the remake of. Many who have seen it told me that [REC] is the better movie, but if that’s the case then it must be really good, because Quarantine is a pretty dam good movie. It is not really...
REC or no REC, this swiftly unleashed, yet somehow – inevitable U.S. remake is a relentlessly intense, genuinely frightening slice of hand-held, first-person horror. Like its Spanish forerunner, which it very faithfully reworks, it combines the fashionable...
At first, Larry Cohen’s winged, or in the film’s terminology, “plumed” serpent, the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl, or “Q” for short, is merely a wry mock-up of latter-day Ray Harryhausen monster features. However, what would at first seem to be a film which places a...
