always look forward to a poorly reviewed work because I like rooting for the underdog and enjoy the challenge of finding something that others might have overlooked. Granted, this is indeed a fruitless effort in most cases, yet–as the old adage goes–half...
Emerging shortly after the movie adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s punishing THE GIRL NEXT DOOR – a fictionalized version of the Sylvia Likens case – comes this absorbing alternate cinematic interpretation of the horrifying events, this time with some of the...
n respect to the horror genre, when Italy meets America, it seems as if only good things could come from the collaboration. As such, director Damiano Damiani’s follow-up to Stuart Rosenberg’s blockbuster, The Amityville Horror, Amityville II: The Possession, is a work...
I have lived on Long Island my whole life, I lived in four different towns throughout the island. If I were to go up the road, make a quick right, drive about 6 miles, make a quick left and I can be sitting in front of the Amityville Horror house in about ten minutes....
There is a reason that Andrew Douglas’s redux of Stuart Rosenberg’s The Amityville Horror was not screened for critics: It is sadly similar to Zack Snyder’s remake of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead in that neither director understands the social allegory involved...
Twelve years after directing Cool Hand Luke, television-cum-Silver Screen director Stuart Rosenberg created what many label the iconographic haunted house narrative. In 1974, Ronald DeFeo killed his family with a shotgun before declaring that the estate’s voices were...
