It Waits
"It Waits" is one of those films that's hard to define as being good and bad. From a filmmaking point of view the film is visually stunning, however from a scriptwriters point of view and a fan's point of view the plot and story that go along with this film a just...
It’s Alive
A redundant straight to DVD remake from the Boaz Davidson / Avi Lerner schlock factory, this has interesting opening titles that boast 1) a production credit for Amicus Films and 2) a co-screenwriter credit for original creator Larry Cohen. (Interesting because 1)...
It Came From Outer Space
The Sustentative Alongside Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still and Christian Nyby’s The Thing from Another World, Jack Arnold’s It Came from Outer Space helped set the standard for 1950’s invasion narratives and loosely veiled political indictments. Based on a...
It Came From Beneath The Sea
I know I've probably talked about this in some of my previous reviews, but one of my goals was accomplished in 2001 when I got to meet Ray Harryhausen and sit in on a seminar he gave at a local college here on Long Island about his life achievements in stop motion...
I Spit on Your Grave
1978 was a very good year for horror films. There were movies that broke the barrier in fear such as John Carpenter’s Halloween, George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, Martin and others such as Pirana, The Omen 2, Jaws 2, Patrick and The Grapes of Death. They where all...
I Spit on Your Grave
Ten years ago, I happened to rent a little film on DVD that many have called a brutal revenge flick. I have always liked films that had the revenge theme, so I gave it a chance. That film was the 1978 version of I Spit on Your Grave. The reviews for the film were both...
I Spit on Your Grave
Here is the movie you always wished Meir Zarchi’s notorious 1977 original was when you endured it - cut or uncut - as a kid. Somewhat muting the arduousness of the rape angle (though it’s still agonizingly explicit and the impact is significantly larger) and amping up...
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl / Isola: Tajuu jinkaku shôjo
Toshiyuki Mizutani’s debut (and to date only) directorial effort, Isola, . . . . It’d be better if we simply moved forward through the proceedings in order to avoid humoring the feature any more than is completely necessary. Psychic Yukari Kamo (Yoshino Kimura)...
Irréversible
Irréversible is considered a video nasty of sorts. There is a definite split between critics upon whether the work is vicious exploitation or true art (few argue there’s a middle ground with this film). Regardless of which camp you decide to enter, one cannot refute...
Iron Man
The superhero movie is at it's highest peak ever, and it seems that it's a safe bet for any studio to release a superhero film just as long as it's executed well and properly produced. Sure we've had a few duds that never made back their budget while in theaters, but...
The Iris Effect
Well, it's safe to say that The Iris Effect is not a horror film, nor is it a Sci-fi or Fantasy film. But it is a Thriller that follows a mother all the way across the Atlantic to St. Petersburg, Poland, in search of her missing son. However the story leads to believe...
The Invisible Woman
Thankfully, unlike with many other of the Universal monsters, the minds behind the Invisible Man series decided to parody the character before the villain exhausted his ability to terrorize audiences (and thereby diluting the figure’s reputation). At no time does A....
The Invisible Man’s Revenge
Unlike most of the closing chapters in the Universal Monster Series, Ford Beebe’s The Invisible Man’s Revenge is a steadfast effort. Interestingly, the film is the only script, with the except of James Whale’s original, that wasn’t penned by Curt Siodmak as mystery...
The Invisible Man Returns
Joe May’s sequel to James Whale’s masterpiece is weak in the few areas in which it posits original thought by which to distract the viewer from the fact that, holistically, The Invisible Man Returns is a poor facsimile of its predecessor. Unfortunately, the fleeting...
The Invisible Man
Claude Rains’s stars in his first sound role (his second film) as the Invisible Man. However ironical, director James Whale, in his underdog classic, portrays a society unwilling to acknowledge those unlike themselves while giving us the most terrifying monster in the...
