It's good to live in the past sometimes, really good. When I look back at all the direct to video horror films of my youth and teen years; and then look at all the shit that comes out on DVD now. I realize that I didn't have it so bad when it came to renting such...

A remake of Kevin S Tenney’s very likeable 80’s EVIL DEAD-riffing horror comedy that sticks to the basic format of the original and steals some key scenes. In the words of director Adam Gierasch (who last year gave us another New Orleans-set retro gore movie,...

Rachel Talalay (Tank Girl, Ghost in the Machine), production manager of A Nightmare on Elm Street (NOES) and its sequel, and producer of parts 3 and 4, makes her directorial debut with the closing chapter in the A Nightmare on Elm Street saga. The garbled work, much...

Prefatory note: Rumor has it that only half of Leslie Bohem’s (Dante’s Peak) script for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child was retained and that William Wisher (The Terminator, The 13th Warrior, Exorcist: The Beginning) and David Schow (The Crow) did rewrites...

Co-screenwriters Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River Conspiracy Theory, The Order) and Jim Wheat (Pitch Black, The Fly II) got together and penned A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 (NOES 5). The film became the highest-grossing entry in the series, not because...

Director Chuck Russell (The Mask, The Blob) shares co-writing credits with Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Frankenstein, The Blob, The Fly II) and series originator Wes Craven in an attempt to correct Jack Sholder’s cinematic atrocity known...

Director Jack Sholder and screenwriter David Chaskin create a flaccid, homoerotic horror sequel to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. Though conceptually intriguing, the work lacks focus and merely served as an excuse for the filmmakers to establish themselves as...

The latest Platinum Dunes remake, a year on from FRIDAY THE 13TH, is their weakest. It displays mild promise at the outset via an effectively eerie title sequence accompanied by Steve Jablosnky’s otherwise generic score offering a creepy appropriation of the...

Not only did the character of Freddy Kruger save New Line Cinema from bankruptcy, prompting the studio to be jokingly referred to as “The House That Freddy Built,” but the iconographic figure added much-needed fuel to the waning slasher film--Paramount having hired...

With a self-explanatory title and Lance Henriksen’s evocative voiceover narration, this superbly edited and intelligent documentary consists of eloquent talking heads and extremely well chosen film clips. The heads (aside from a handful of writers like John Kenneth...

Director Rolfe Kanefsky has been making straight to video horror flicks for long enough (one doomed character here wears a “There’s Nothing Out There” T-shirt in honour of his 1989 slasher pastiche) to know that genre fans will sit through almost anything so long as...

So here we go again with another lost foreign film, bought to life on DVD from BCI Eclipse. This time its the 1974 Spanish Exploitation flick The Night of the Sorcerers. A film that is more like talkie/porn flick than it is a horror film. However the good thing about...

You know I get films like this all the time in the mail, I can't say that I really like them, mainly because it was shot on digital and the production value is not that great, I feel like shutting them off. Well needless to say I felt the same about this film, but on...

Vampire films have never really been my forte, mainly because as of late they seem to all be the same and are pretty much a dime a dozen when it comes to trying to be original. However what Night Junkies has going for it; and the sole reason why I liked the film is...

There are certain flags that sometimes go up, albeit miniature ones on some occasions, that can give as an indicator as to how to interpret a work of art, beginning with whether or not the work is worth interpreting. Indeed, sometimes such things come in handy because...