Larry Cohen has made his name as writer and director of some of the sharpest horror satire in modern times. Beginning with It’s Alive and continuing with The Stuff, Body Snatchers (with Stuart Gordon), and Manic Cop (with director William Lustig), Cohen penned a few...
I often say that many horror films are a dime a dozen. I say it with vampire, zombie and werewolf films. I should add remake to that mix. I never have been one of those people who bitch at the sight of every film that is remade. I know business is business, which is...
Stephen King always will be considered the “king” of horror fiction. From the late 70s until today, more than fifty of Kings novels and short stories have been made into a motion picture. Children of the Corn was the second film based on one of King’s short...
The only thing I knew about Richard Speak was that he killed a lot of women. That’s really all I knew about the man. That is until I saw this film. Now I’m usually one that really gets into any film that’s based on a real serial killer. Being someone...
Let me begin this review of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by stating that I don’t really care for the first film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book, titled “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (the film, not the book; the book shares its title with the newer...
By shifting the subgenre’s focus ever so discreetly, Director Peter Medak creates one of the most famous haunted house films, comparable in its atmosphere to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Robert Wise’s The Haunting. Stridently, George C. Scott carries the tale of...
