Though, technically speaking, not Roger Corman’s best work, The Little Shop of Horrors is the epitome of the director at his best given that it was shot on December 28-29, 1959 (we don’t count reshoots, which took place two weeks later) on a budget of 27,000 dollars....

The new tread in independent horror cinema seems to be the anthology. It worked in the eighties/early nineties with films such as Creepshow and Tales from the Darkside. Horror television shows also added to the mix. Recently a lot of my friends that are filmmakers...

THE LIST is based on the best selling novel by Robert Whitlow. For those of you who have never heard of Robert Whitlow he has written several books that deal with Christian faith and thrillers that deal with faith based beliefs and the bible. THE LIST is one of those...

After the overwhelming success of Baron Blood, Mario Bava was given carte blanche control of his next horror outing, Lisa & the Devil. His second-to-last masterpiece is a surrealistic, blackly humorous psychological chiller and, irrefutably, the most ambitious effort...

Written and Directed by Insane Mike Saunders From Iowa’s Prescribed Films comes Lights, Camera . . . KILL!, the young filmmaking group’s tenth effort. A take on media and modern true crime (LCK claims to be “Based on a true story”), the film weaves a twisted web of...

Interestingly, it only took four people, ringleader Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Total Recall, The Return of the Living Dead, Dead & Buried), sidekick Don Jakoby (Arachnophobia), and the uncredited efforts of Michael Armstrong and Olaf Pooley, to script the mind rape directed...

You might be asking yourself why I'm reviewing a television series that appears on The History Channel. It's simple really. The History Channel has plenty of shows that can be considered science fiction like documentaries. Such is the case with LIFE AFTER PEOPLE. If...

There has been a lot of buzz surrounding this film among horror fans since the film first made it's debut here in the U.S. on the film festival circuit. It seems that every year there is a horror film from overseas that creates so much hype that it puts all of the...

Seeking to capitalize upon the success of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche approached director Jorge Grau, who just completed one of the more faithful adaptations of the Elizabeth Bathory legend with Blood Castle, with the...

In 2008, the Norwegian horror film, Let the Right One In, based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist hit the horror scene to much praise. I named it my top film in 2008, and was very impressed by the way the film was made, its storyline and its overall suspenseful...

Henri-Georges Clouzot created one of the most taught suspense thrillers of all time with Les Diaboliques. His story, a misaligned love triangle with a malicious headmaster at its apex and a vengeful mistress and an innocent wife at is remaining corners, is surrounded...

The lineage of this amiable, undemanding Brit horror comedy dates back to THE CAT AND THE CANARY - and further - while the physical stature of its two leads placed within a mock-horrific scenario (straight-man thin bloke, comedy fat bloke) was a key element of the...

Religion and the belief in God has been an issue from the beginning of time. Many people all over the world believe in one based on their religious status and some choose not to believe at all. If we look at religion from the standpoint of the Bible, we know that in...

With the box office success of INDIANA JONES AND THE LEGEND OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL it's a no brainer that many people want to know if the legends of the skulls do exist or not. Are they based on a real legend? Or are they something that just the filmmakers made up....

Ridley Scott has made a career of successive genre-jumping. Unfortunately, his foray into fantasy called Legend, though perhaps one of the most visually appeasing within the field, is suspiciously lacking. More specifically, it is missing a trademark element found...