Christian Nyby–better known throughout Hollywood as Howard Hawkes’s editor on such projects as The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, and Red River–took the directorial reigns for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and Hawkes’s adaptation of John Campbell’s “Who...
John Carpenter’s postmodern, Lovecraftian horror thriller “of pure suspense unseen since the days of Hitchcock [ . . . ]” as decreed by Filpside Movie Emproium’s Rob Vaux, The Thing was initially lambasted by critics and ignored by audiences–no doubt due in part...
There’s always some new tweak on the vampire mythos with every incarnation. Some, like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” always (mostly) made a clear distinction between the living (non-demon) and the undead (demon). Then there was stuff like TWILIGHT, that made vampires...
I recently stated in a recent review how much all of these Asian horror films that have been unleashed on the American market have really not been living up to my standards as good films. I now seem to stand corrected, as I have found a diamond in the ruff. Alright,...
John Carpenter’s impetus for wanting to become a filmmaker was Jack Arnold’s It Came from Outer Space atop the famed Westerns of the era. As a result, many of his works reflect his infatuation with both genres in that many of his lone protagonists come to find...
Considering I am critiquing a film where the main character kills off his critics after they issued him poor reviews, I must confess I loved the film. (No, seriously, I did, and here’s why.) The work presents Shakespeare in a modern, however Gothic, light while...
