I normally refuse to review any film that is shown online, simply because there are way to many of them to review and most of them are crap anyway, however "The Day They Came Back" was written and directed by a really good friend of mine; Scott Goldberg. Scott started...

The original THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is one of my favorite classic science fiction films. So when I first got wind of a remake I was pretty skeptical as to how good it was going to be, especially with Keanu Reeves playing the role of Klaatu and the guy who...

I'm just going to come out and say it. The Day The Earth Stood Still is probably the best, if not one of the best science fiction films ever made. The film not only reflects the social issues of it's time, but also shows that history does in fact repeat itself as the...

Director Steve Sekely misses the mark with his congested adaptation of John Wyndham’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Day of the Triffids. Though one of his plotlines is fascinating, after the film’s antagonist is introduced, the work suffers exponentially as it slowly...

You wont find George A Romero’s name on this alleged “remake” of his same-titled 1985 modern masterpiece though, given the great man’s association-by-proxy to recent tripe like CREEPSHOW 3 and DAY OF THE DEAD II : CONTAGIUM, he’s probably grateful for this fact. In...

“There are those who you can’t get ’em away from the first one [Night of the Living Dead]. Then there’s those who celebrate and party with Dawn of the Dead. Then there’s those real trolls who like Day of the Dead,” so says Romero of his zombie fanbase. Yes, Night of...

The title of Andrew Parkinson’s directorial debut evokes images of his central figure as a tyrannical leader of a horde, or even nation, of malicious zombies, all of which (but primarily the dictator himself), housing a propensity for wrath and a proclivity to inflict...

"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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...