At the turn of the century, after directors found themselves time and time again at a loss as to how to successfully translate Japanese cinema to the American Big Screen and, likewise, frustrated audiences were saturated with the same ghost child imagery and non...

I’ll be real honest up front. This would not be a film I would ever re-watch. To TV for me. But, for my son to watch, is a real treat. He loves dinosaurs. He loves monsters. What else does a kid want? Coolio is heading his special ops in the deep forest of the Turkish...

Psychomanteum is a room established for mirror gazing where the living can purportedly summon the dead via meditation. The most famous modern-day instance of this is American novelist William S. Burroughs’s experiments with the technique which, for him, rendered...

In 1960, the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, would create a historic moment in cinema when he unleashed Psycho upon the world. The film would change the way people took showers and looked at that strange, quiet neighborhood boy who lived next door. Norman Bates...

Psycho did many things, not only for horror (most notably, ushering the genre into its postmodern period), but for cinema in general. This landmark production, financially backed by Alfred Hitchcock himself because his production company had issues with the subject...

I know in the past I have talked about the low budget psychological horror films that seem to take place in some kind of closed down hospital where the past comes back to haunt the new security guard or construction worker or whatever job a person would have in an...

PROM NIGHT is not really a remake but more of a reimaging of the 1980 film starring Jamie Lee Curtis of the same title. Now that I have seen both, it's hard for me to compare the two. I kind of like this new one better and found it to more entertaining than the...

While on vacation a young couple jumps straight into a flashback: when “douche magnet” Selene (Noelle Wheeler) attracts the attention of Jesse (Kurt Kubicek) at a party they instantly hit it off, albeit in an uncomfortably sober twenty-something kind of way. Now on a...

On the night of what is my wife due date to have our first child; this is probably not the movie I should be watching. I am honestly wondering if I'm being set up by the horror industry in the last few weeks with all of these films involving pregnant women, family and...

What boggles me in respect to David Kann’s third feature, Prison of the Psychotic Damned (PPD), is that--as a director, by definition--he should be the epitome of control. As such, how Kann shot a film in Buffalo and managed to fashion a work of horror with...

You know, I don't know how the hell films like this get made, and released. I mean, WOW! What the hell did I just watch. I really thought it took no talent to make a bad film, but to make a film like this takes talent. The writers of this film have one hell of a...

I know there is surely a huge scene for the woman in prison movies. Caged Heat, Bamboo House Of Dolls, 10 Violent woman and so on. It seems to be a perfect match for the Bottled up aggressor. Naked woman, lesbian love and hot action all within the compounds of a...

Tagline: Inspired by the true story of the most prolific serial killer in history. Like lambs being led to the slaughter, Spooky Dan, Ryan Rotten, Mike Mendez, Stephen Susco, Steven Miller, myself and a slate of other horror filmmakers strolled into the theatre on a...

Primeval serves as irrefutable proof that way too many critics take their title a bit too seriously. By definition, critics should be fans of their field but, alas, all to many fall prey to hubris and lapse into critical snobbery by the end of the day as nothing...

I was actually surprised that my wife, who's not the biggest fan of horror films actually agreed to sit down and watch this film with me. After reading Jack Reher's review of Primeval I will admit I didn't have high hopes for the film at all. However my wife and I...