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...

Ok, Ok I know it's kind of hard to write a review for films like this because basically there all the same. Soft-core porn with great looking girls, some bad acting and a story that you pretty much don't care for cause your eyes are on the girls. Well yeah it has all...

What happens when you combine the toil of four individuals who almost single-handedly made the whole of Britain shirk in fear due to the audacity of their résumés? A film which was deported even before it was made. What else would one expect from Italian gore maestro...

Half a decade before Charlie Kaufman wrote himself into his own script and then wove the script into itself, Wes Craven challenged himself and audiences by setting out to make what had become over the course of ten years the bastardized version of his own...

Kevin Costner is one of those movie stars whose films can be hits or big budget bombs. Usually, you never see him in a film that flies under the radar, until recently at least. He has a few films hit the big screen, but the past few years some small projects such as...

Unlike the over abundance of vampire films that plague the rental store shelves werewolf films seem to be taking a back seat to all the other monster sub-genres. With the remake of THE WOLFMAN on the way sometime next year, it looks like we'll start to see this...

I have no real interest in the Twilight series personally. I will eventually give in and check them out to see what all this hype is about, but for now, I think there are other films that deserve the attention. With this hype, you are always going to get those...

I have a pretty strong stomach. I watch some of the sickest exploitation/gore films almost daily, and I’m never physically affected by what I see on the screen. Maybe I’m desensitized, but while films like Nekromantik and Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS have raised my...

The Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and even in a lesser degree The Sleepaway Camp franchises all knew how to utilize particular elements of the slasher genre and make it work for their perspective audiences. Those series worked so well that it would be...