Tim Burton’s major sin in Mars Attacks! is that at every turn he is busy parodying something. Yes, he is attempting to make a bad film in the vein of Ed Wood (whose comic cinematic biography he’d recently finished). Yet, a parody of such B-movie fare doesn’t mean the...

Shot in only eight days--in-between Ju-on and its American remake, The Grudge--Takashi Shimizu created a surrealistic, existential love story which, much like life and love itself, is forced to content itself with its own ambiguities, as the work--as much an Eastern...

After all the years and hype I heard about this film, I am sorry to say that I, myself have never been so disappointed about a film in my life. The problem is that "Man Thing" was promoted on the web for about two years. Early pictures of the film and all the hype...

Ok, What the fuck did I just watch. Let me try to phantom this film the best I can for all of you. Yes; this is another one of Jess Franco's sexploitation flicks. Full of a lot of boring simulated sex and fat women with hairy asses and so on. Alright, so this flick is...

Are you sure you are ready to enter The Mansion Of Madness? An unreal trip into your worst nightmares. Think of all things calm and comfortable. Now tear the boundaries down and consider yourself doomed. Now laugh about it since you are tripping on LSD. Well, I’ve...

If Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre were artificially inseminated with Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small, the inevitable product would be Juan López Moctezuma’s debut feature, The Mansion of Madness. Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The System of Doctor Tarr and...

When I was approached by Horror Bob to review this film, I was reminded of both the abundance of horror films based on real life killers (DAHMER, ED GEIN, THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER, etc.) and a line quoted by Mickey Knox in NATURAL BORN KILLERS when informed that Manson...

When people mention “the worst film,” there is a lot of interpretation to be had with such a phrase. Easily, a 14 year-old with a camcorder and a basement has the (in)ability to make a “production” that trumps the horrendous nature of, say, Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer...

"Maniacts" was kind of a weird movie, I don't really know how to put it really it was kind of like "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" but a bloodier more violent version. The film is weird, I'd be lying if I said I knew what was going on all the time. We have a serial...

William Lustig’s “MANIAC” is a violently disturbing journey into the mind of a human monster. Frank Zito (Joe Spinell) is a deranged man with a serious Oedipus complex, and stalks the harsh streets of New York punishing women for reasons that only he seems to...

Since discovering NoShame Films, Italian exploitation films have become a newfound interest of mine, and one of NoShame’s latest releases, A Man Called Magnum, can correctly be classified as one of the most satisfying experiences I’ve had with Italian exploitation...

Maneater, Ironically enough is the third film that is part of RHI Entertainments and Genius Products Maneater series. The fact of the matter is that yes, this was a sci-fi pictures original movie that premiered on the Sci-fi Channel. However the fact that most of the...

The SyFy channel spits out original movies like rabbits have babies. I’m sure not all of them are original productions, however I have so many of them on DVD (and God knows I’ve said this a million times), they all are six of one, one half dozen of the other when it...

This is one hell of a DVD, It's cool to see someone from your neck of the woods making it somewhat big time. Stevan Mena is a cool guy, who I've managed to hang out with and interview one night. He actually shot some scenes of Malevolence right down the road from...