Warning: The following is a literal “review” of Robert Wise’s The Haunting in that it contains spoilers. “You’re liable to have that shut door in your mind ripped right off it hinges.” --John Markway Second only to Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, Shirley Jackon’s...

I knew, years before the film was even made, that there was going to be a film produced based on THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT. I saw the news stories and the rumors all over the web, and I was skeptical about the whole production, as I knew that the family on whose...

Teenage horror films are really becoming one half dozen of the other. And here is another one to add to the pile. while the film did more than double it's budget in the box office and catered to the teenage crowd with it's PG-13 rating. It is by no means a scary...

I must say I was a bit disappointed the way this film turned out, I really thought it was going to be just as good as "Pirates of the Caribbean", being a popular Disney ride and everything, The trailers looked very promising. Well I was wrong, "Pirates of the...

An even more fan boy-centric sequel to the slasher pastiche HATCHET, which was the breakthrough movie for a filmmaker who has since proven his versatility with different styles and approaches to genre films (SPIRAL, FROZEN). HATCHET II is an undeniably self-indulgent...

Though it premiered in England almost a year ago at London’s Fright fest event (in its uncut form), HATCHET has to wait until September before being officially unleashed on genre fans in cinemas across the UK and the US (with the latter territory losing some seconds...

“Remember: At the end of the day we’re not curing cancer, we’re just making life more entertaining before we get cancer,” so says writer/director Adam Green. Yet, with his sophomore effort, Hatchet, and its devastating new face of terror, Victor Crowley, a lot of...

Being as forthright as his feature, British auteur Richard Stanley’s Hardware is a true blooded post-apocalyptic cyberpunk cautionary tale which is as successful as it is a misfire. True to his name, Nomad (Carl McCoy)--roaming the post-apocalyptic radioactive...

The third installment of the Harry Potter series is a a lot darker than the first two films. It's got more of this horror/goth kind of feeling and images of death seem to play a big role. Harry and friends are another year older and are at that age where puberty is...

This film touches on a very touchy subject regarding the internet and sexual predators. I have to admit that going into this flick I was a bit worried about the kind of film it was going to be. I heard a few things about it toward the beginning of the year, but I kind...

Former music video director, David Slade, in short, presents us with Hard Candy, a pretentious work hoping to raise enough eyebrows in order to garner a bit of notoriety within the business (as well as a bigger budget), while exploiting--not only the possibilities of...

Though the slasher film carries the stigma of being formulaic and overly cliché, productions within this subgenre are quite often fascinatingly creative unless they bare the ominous sequel number after their title. Whether it be inventive kills, a new polish applied...

Here’s the deal folks, some of you might of looked at the star rating I gave this film and think right off the bat that I hate M. Night Shyamalan and every film he ever made, but unlike all the haters and fan boys out there this is actually the first film of his that...

I have always been a big fan of the Hannibal Lector series, and while most people prefer Silence of the Lambs and say it's the only film worth a dam in the whole series, I'm one of the very few who enjoyed all the films. (And yes I liked Hannibal). Hannibal Rising...

With all the superhero films based on comic book characters that were released this year, HANCOCK is the only superhero (Or should I say anti-hero) movie released that was not based on a comic book. In fact HANCOCK was a script that was written back in 1996 and was in...