Warning: The following is a literal “review” of Sean Cunningham’s Friday the 13th in that it contains spoilers. Regardless of one’s opinion concerning the Friday the 13th or its sequels, one is forced to admire director Sean Cunningham and producer Steve Miner for the...

The first attempt to bring Jason Voorhees together with Freddy Kruger occurred during the planning stages for John Carl Buechler’s Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. However, when the respective owners of the horror icons, Paramount Pictures and New Line Cinema,...

Rachel Talalay (Tank Girl, Ghost in the Machine), production manager of A Nightmare on Elm Street (NOES) and its sequel, and producer of parts 3 and 4, makes her directorial debut with the closing chapter in the A Nightmare on Elm Street saga. The garbled work, much...

The sophomore effort of director Drew Bell, Freakshow--a mixture of Tod Browning’s Freaks and Donn Davison’s She Freak--is an unexpectedly effective film posing as a piece of horror exploitation and lethargic plagiarism. Masterfully, Bell plays to the viewer’s...

As the final credits of Christian James’s Freak Out started to roll, I was perplexed because I was sure I’d missed something, so I marched my little butt to the computer and proceeded to read what others thought about the film and this is what I have thus surmised:...

FREAKDOG, like jobbing director Paddy Breathnach’s last horror film, SHROOMS, is a competent, good-looking, slick product let down by mediocre material and all too obvious attempts to appeal to the worldwide (read : American) market. In this case, the latter is even...

When I got this DVD in the mail today I was actually shocked to see that the site was quoted on the front cover. I said to myself, I must be watching to many movie, cause I don't even remember seeing this one, maybe Steven reviewed it. So I checked the archives....

I've always been a fan of old school b-movie horror. "Frankenstein vs. The Creature from Blood Cove" is a homage to all those films from the 1940's and 50's. It's got that cheesy b-movie feel, ( with a few nude women) scene's on a beach that remind you of those great...

Of all horror films, the figurehead of the genre is James Whale’s Frankenstein. One of the greatest films of all time, the work has been written upon, critiqued, and analyzed frame-by-frame, thus, I will spend the this review highlighting the more interesting readings...

Mercy Falls Children’s Hospital, on the Isle of Wight, is about to close down for good. With a train crash filling up the intended transfer hospital, the remaining eight children and skeleton staff are forced to wait for a few days before they can leave. Barely...

Some films that we watch have an effect on us because, in some way, we relate to them. In other cases, we may not relate, but feel for the characters and their struggles. Most will dismiss these kinds of films as dramas, crime stories or thrillers, but some films go...

I always have had the hidden fear that one night I would wake up to find a group of small, grey aliens looking at me. These stories seem to be becoming common, especially with the UFO community, and there are so many theories being discussed from sleep paralysis to...