David Cronenberg did two things for horror. The first was help put Canada on the map and the second was to create his own distinct subcategory which is commonly referred to by academians in the field as “body horror” or biological horror. Shivers, a.k.a They Came from...
Stanley Kubrick is one of the foremost masters of cinema and, as an American director, is second only to Alfred Hitchcock. Unlike Hitchcock, Kubrick shifted from genre to genre with each film. With his liberal reading of Stephen King’s 1977 novel by the same name, the...
There are two types of poorly made films, those which house no artistic merit whatsoever and those made with malicious intent that seek to exploit the viewer’s time while nonetheless garnering its cash. Then there’s films like Shunichi Nagasaki’s Shikoku, which...
It’s Christmas Eve, and a trio of dumb, horny guys get thrown out of a nightclub, do a “gas and dash” and head to the country retreat of a babe (Roxanne Mesquida) they’ve just met. At her country farm house, where creepy dolls lurk at every turn, housekeeper Joseph...
From producers Roger and Julie Corman and the director of WRONG TURN 3, this Sy-Fy Channel “original” has all the usual, erm, “qualities” of the sub-genre the network has maintained for years, but is richly laden with self mocking humor and more fun than most....
Toshiharu Ikeda, the famed director of Evil Dead Trap, offers two delightfully fun, and surprisingly terrifying, vignettes that unabashedly wear the label of horror for horror’s sake. While avoiding the J-horror cliché of an congested plotline, though not bothering to...
