Crowd-pleasing comic werewolf movie DOG SOLDIERS and uber-terrifying claustrophobia-fest THE DESCENT were always going to be tough acts to follow, and for his third feature, writer/director Neil Marshall, armed for the first time with a sizable budget courtesy of...

It's 5:27 am and I just finished watching the "DOOM" DVD and felt compelled to write a quick review. Why? Because much to my surprise despite some ridiculousness I thought it was pretty damn entertaining! I didn't see it in the theater but now wish I had which I...

One of the best films I have seen in the past decade is now ten years old and is once again available on Blu-ray.. I will admit the first time I saw the DVD box cover for Donnie Darko I thought it was going to be just another sub-par horror film that was going to be...

The creation and production of a prequel to one of the most successful films of all time, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, due to Morgan Creek’s desire to exploit the genre--made evident in the production company’s insistence that its original director, Paul Schrader...

The creation and production of a prequel to one of the most successful films of all time, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, due to Morgan Creek’s desire to exploit the genre--made evident in the production company’s insistence that its original director, Paul Schrader...

As I’ve said elsewhere, I first approached werewolf films with a bit of reluctancy considering that the subject matter didn’t innately pique my interest but, after watching a few of the more acclaimed works in the genre, I found most lycanthrope flicks to be...

After a sojourn in the U.S. for a predictably needless PUMPKINHEAD sequel, Brit horror filmmaker Jake West returns to home territory for DOGHOUSE, the latest in the post-SHAUN OF THE DEAD cycle of British comedy-horrors. Like so many of the pretenders to SHAUN’s...

Horror comedies over the past few years have been either dumbed down to pointless entertainment where the film is more stupid than funny. They poke fun at the clichés of the genre and don’t really offer anything better than Scary Movie did when it first came out more...

Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is my favorite film of all time. So when I see a film with a similar plot to that of Hitchcock's masterpiece; I get really excited to check out if the film will be as good as Hitchcock's.. While Disturbia is not the masterpiece that Rear...

This has not been a very good year for the horror film. Two of the best horror-related films I have seen this year were more science fiction films with excellent horror elements that made them stand out from the pack in 2009. District 9 is one of those films. It’s a...

Alex Turner’s second short film, Disposal, is a scathing critique and black humor examination upon contemporary ethics. In truly Hitchcockian fashion, the director scrutinizes, no one, but two pairs of juxtaposed individuals and, as a consequence, the film’s tagline...

Finally someone has sent me and Indie horror film that I did not feel like 2 hours of my life was taken away from me. "Director's Cut" is an Indie film with style, it's got all the perks of a b-movie but does it in good taste. Of course it's got sex and drug use, but...

People are different in many ways, and it seems that if your not of the norm these days you get labeled very quickly. How many young girls want to be like Paris Hilton or Lindsey Lohan, buying the latest fashions and doing up hairstyles just be impressive to their...

Every year over 30,000 men, women and children are kidnapped. The majority are held for a ransom “between” $500.00 to 100 million dollars. Almost 70 percent of the total numbers of kidnappings that take place worldwide get resolved by paying the ransom amount. About...

While LAND OF THE DEAD (2005) was a smart, exciting movie in its own right, George A Romero has never belonged in the Hollywood system. Prior to making the slightly anonymous LAND for Universal, his mainstream, studio-backed work included the powerful but compromised...