REC 2
[REC] was one of the most memorable horror movies of this century’s maiden decade : a relentlessly intense and superbly crafted entry in the still-active first-person-camera sub-genre of fake-reality horror. It was transformed into modern classic territory by virtue...
[Rec]
The renaissance period of Spanish horror cinema continues apace with a film that joins the hitherto American-dominated cycle of first-person, faux reality handheld horror movies. The trend was effectively initiated by THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and recently taken into...
[REC]
[REC] is the film on which QUARANTINE was based. In fact, QUARANTINE is almost a shot-for-shot remake of [REC] from start to finish. I happened to see QUARANTINE first and, whether or not that ruined the effect that [REC] should have had on me will always remain a...
Reborn
A few years back, when my primary focus on the site was reviewing any independent film that came my way, I came across a little film called Machined. After being burdened by many backyard horror flicks and poorly made low budget-ones, Machined was like a breath of...
Re-Animator
Stuart Gordon blasted the horror genre with a shot in the dark when he presented his adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s short story, “Hubert West--Reanimator.” Now, I’ll be honest, the first time I watched this movie I didn’t see what all the hubbub was about but, after...
Reality Kills
Admittedly, I’d forsaken television once I entered collage at the end of the last century and never looked back. As such, perhaps I’m not the “expert” in respect to the subject matter of Rafal Zielinski’s film--reality television--in that I’ve never taken in one...
Rapturious
Kamal Ahmed, best known as one-half of the now defunct Jerky Boys, is a director and, at that, twice over in the field of feature-length cinema. Interestingly, given Ahmed’s history, neither is the previous effort of four years prior, God Has a Rap Sheet, or...
Rampage
Following the coal-black, broad satire of POSTAL and his nihilistic contribution to the post-SAW visceral horror stakes (SEED), Uwe Boll gives us his take on the FALLING DOWN notion of a guy who snaps and unleashes his pent-up demons on the public at large. Only this...
Rambo
Co-writer/director/star Sylvester Stallone follows the unexpectedly triumphant 2007 swansong to his other movie icon, ROCKY BALBOA with a fourth RAMBO outing, made two decades after the poorly received RAMBO III. We’re now in a deeply jaded new century and what we’ve...
The Rage
A proper old-school splatter movie, THE RAGE isn’t afraid of over-the-line bad taste shtick and revels in a delicious anything-goes approach that cheerfully riffs on everything from BLOODSUCKING FREAKS to 28 DAYS LATER. See! Kids being gruesomely killed! See! A...
The Radio Mechanics
Generally sci-fi films like this never interest me, they typically have two people talking about theories and so forth over and over that I always feel like I'm in a science classroom. However "The Radio Mechanics" is a short sci-fi thriller that only runs about 19...
Rabid Dogs
Rabid Dogs is, quite simply, a substantive, inquisitive vehicular rendition of Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left, replete with the American film’s unrepentant, carnal viciousness. However, Mario Bava’s work is much more convincingly drawn, photographed, told,...
Rabid
“All of my movies on one level or another deal with the ways in which we use technology to modify our environment, so that we have warmth when it’s cold, light when it’s dark, etcetera. Once that’s secured, the next thing we do is modify ourselves [ . . . . .] It’s...
Syngenor (DVD)
DVD Details Commentary track with writer Brent Friedman Four “Featurettes:” David Gale at Tokyo Fantastic Film Festival; Publicity Photo Shoot; Doug Beswick’s Creature Shop; and David Gale’s audition Easter Egg Filmographies Animated Motion Menus 24 Chapters with...
The Sylvian Experiments
If you know your Asian Horror then you know the name Hiroshi Takahashi all to well. He is the man who wrote and directed the original Ringu (Ring) movie(s) that took Asia and American by storm. It was considered one of the scariest films ever made and was remade here...