As much as I can’t stand the look of digital video; to the point where I usually shut off a lot of films that are shot on it. I must admit that even though it bothered the shit out of me; that Stupid Teenagers Must Die is a pretty decent low budget flick. The...
Larry Cohen’s The Stuff is perhaps best described as Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Irvin Yeaworth’s The Blob, replete with a black humor, Z-movie premise, presented via Swiftian satire, as the director highlights the absurdity of mass consumerism...
Typically, after viewing a putrid piece of cinema schlock, I attempt to distance myself from the work as much as possible and try not to dwell on the fact that I have wasted x amount of lifetime which I can never hope to get back. Yet, as occupational hazard would...
Henrik Galeen’s daunting remake of Hanns Heinz Ewers’s tale of a Faustian doppelganger based upon Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” is, to date, the definite version of the narrative due to the director’s knowledge, appreciation, and implementation of German...
“To catch a mad dog, you have to think like a mad dog…Only madder…” Jamie Blanks, a self-professed horror fan, found modest success in Hollywood with a pair of streamlined, post-SCREAM teen horror movies (URBAN LEGEND, VALENTINE), both heavily influenced by the...
I was kind of optimistic about reviewing this film, when I received it in the mail the filmmakers had informed me that the film was not fully complete, that the screener was a “work in progress”. So I figured well that’s no reason for me to be all...
