As an actor, William Butler had the distinction of being the only guy to be killed on screen by Jason Voorhees (in FRIDAY THE 13TH THE NEW BLOOD), Leather face (in the third TEXAS CHAINSAW movie) and Freddy Krueger (in an episode of FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES). As a...

"Funnyman" is a British Horror/Comedy that co-stars horror icon Christopher Lee. It's kind of like a throwback hammer horror film with an odd sense of B-movie gore and slap-stick type black comedy. That's probably the best way to describe the film. It's very, very...

It’s in English (a first for director Michael Haneke), with a couple of well-known leads (both, curiously, non-Americans playing American characters) and some token, cosmetic changes to acknowledge the ten years that have passed since the original…but this almost...

I don't know if I'm getting cranky cause I'm nearing thirty, or maybe it the fact that when the filmmakers of this film cast a AVN award winning porn star in this film that I at least expected to see at least more porn action in this film then I expected. In fact if...

Director Adam Green is probably best known for his sophomore effort Hatchet. Billed as “Old School American Horror”; the film received over the top praise as being the next big thing horror had to offer. Personally I couldn’t disagree more, however although I found...

I find it kind of funny how next month a film titled 30 Days of Night, that is based on a graphic novel will be released theatrically has the same concept as this film; Frostbitten. Both films are the focus of a blood sucking feud that takes place when the sun don't...

Hollywood has already cottoned on to the wave of brilliantly effective, hardcore horror movies emerging from France. HAUTE TENSION (HIGH TENSION) was altered for mainstream American consumption and its director brought on board the remake train with THE HILLS HAVE...

FROM WITHIN is another example of a horror movie that takes ideas from other horror films and uses what I like to call the blender effect. If you don't know what I mean, then just think of three horror films you like and try to put their plots together. That's kind of...

Stuart Gordon and the crew from Re-Animator return with another tale from American gothic writer H. P. Lovecraft as the audience is bombarded with another round of mad scientists on the pursuit of forbidden knowledge. Instead of reanimating the dead, Gordon’s...

If your album starts off with the sample from Tony Malum’s ( Who coincidentally produced a Genesis video back in 1977, which had connection with the progressive bands back in the British days who coincidentally included Yes. Which in turn included Rick Wakeman which...

I can vaguely remember the first time I saw the original Fright Night. I know it was on cable television late at night when I was in middle school and it scared the hell out of me. I can remember the scene where William Ragsdale is locked in his room with crosses all...

Tom Holland (Child's Play, Thinner) gives us Fright Night, a self-referential, shotgun blast of vampire cinema in a mocking horror comedy vein. The film works a majority of the time yet lags in most every respect right when Holland should have been clinching the deal....

With Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, one thing becomes obvious: the production company’s agenda. After the Friday the 13th Box Office peaked with Steve Minor’s Friday the 13th Part 3, our machete-carrying zombie’s returns steadily declined with each new chapter....

To date, teleplay writer Rob Hedden is only the second person to single-handedly write and direct a Friday the 13th feature. As such, the writer-director is not only to be commended for creating the best title within the Friday franchise, but for fashioning one of the...

Makeup and special effects artist John Carl Buechler, after pausing to direct Troll two years prior, steps behind the camera once again to bring Jason Voorhees back to form in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. However, in order to counter the newly-minted...