Skin Crawl is a film that’s right up your ally if your a fan of the television series Dark Shadows. Unfortunately for this film, I could never stand the look of the show, nonetheless the stories that used to bore me so much as child. And they still do. Honestly...
Meh. That simple, single-syllable word repeated itself at least a hundred times during my viewing of “The Skeleton Key,” the latest in Hollywood’s line of PG-13 “atmosphere-over-gore” horror (or “psychological thriller”) films. “Key” has three good things going for...
If Rob Reiner’s Misery where to have a one-night stand with Iain Softley’s The Wings of a Dove, the coupling would more than likely produce the latter’s own The Skeleton Key. The British director’s gothic thriller is a meditation upon observer expectation and bias...
Mental institutions are inherently creepy (have you seen SESSION 9? Enough said.), but I’d been burned with a good trailer and an interesting premise before by Lightning Media with THE DEVIL’S GROUND. SKELETON CREW is a whole new ballgame, and despite a few glitches,...
Clark Brandon issues a refreshing flashback to yesteryear B-movie goodness with a monster invasion involving giant mosquitoes as they prey upon a town filled with enough local color to suffocate a David Lynch production. Given the over-the-top premise, Skeeter...
Brian DePalma’s 1973 movie SISTERS set the trend for the early part of his career, in which he successfully dressed up old Hitchcockian tropes with contemporary stylistic showiness and exploitation movie goodies. Although it is the work of a former short film...
