Dan Milner formed Miltner Brothers Production Company in order to make The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues. The company only produced one other feature, From Hell It Came, before dissolving. I assume that Milner’s motivation in the creation of the company wasn’t due to...

Renowned horror novelist Dean Kootnz, adapting his own 1983 novel by the same name, produces Phantoms, a film by Joe Chappelle, a man accustomed to being issued second-tier works having come off of Hellraiser: Bloodline and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. This...

PHANTASM will always be a film that I hold in my heart as one of the underdog horror franchises with one of the baddest, meanest horror villains ever to grace the screen, or video store for that matter. PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION is the obvious forth installment of the...

It baffles me sometimes that the Phantasm series does not have more sequel to it's credit than more horror franchise films do. Maybe it's just my love for the series, but I find it to be one of the better horror franchises to date. Now it's been quite some time since...

It's been about three years since I last watched Phantasm, and why I may have an excuse I don't know what I simply don't watch good old classics like this at least once a year. How great is this film? I mean seriously it may have a very complex plot, but its just one...

Canadian screenwriter and director Sandor Stern, his most recognizable work to date being the script upon which Stuart Rosenberg’s The Amityville Horror was made, presents Pin. . . . , a feature which irrefutably usurps the notorious haunted house tale for it...

Going along with the theory of diminishing returns, I was actually curious how bad Lambert’s sequel to her own cinematic atrocity, Pet Sematary, could be. Indeed, during the first half of the production, she seemed up to the task of meeting my...

Stephen King, apparently tired of seeing his work maimed by other screenwriters, decided that if one of his babes-in-arms were to have to die a miserable death, at least it should be at his own hand as he adapts his own best-selling novel to the big screen for the...

Only the insanity which is life would permit a work where the director of “Ren & Stimpy’s Adult Party Cartoon,” Jonathan Yudis, would offer a softcore mystery horror comedy replete with sound effects which smack of being the product of a coven of drunken,...

You know the old saying never judge a book by it's cover? Yeah, well that's the case here. Upon first glance at the artwork for PERKINS 14 I though it was going to be a lousy Asian B-movie. the cover is very misleading. The second thing I has against this movie was...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer screams for and smells of Oscar. I went into this film at Paramount Studios completely blind last night. I had seen the novel of the same name, read the jacket and thought to myself; interesting. Truly, I had no idea what kind of...

Stanley Kubrick is quoted as stating that Patrick Süskind’s novel, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, to be unfilmable. However, the mere act of German director Tom Tykwer setting the tale to celluloid doesn’t mean that Kubrick is incorrect because the American...

Vampire films these days a one dozen of the other, there are so many of them, most of them independent productions, but once in a while we'll get something from a major Hollywood studio that will give us one worth watching. While Perfect Creature is one that is a toss...

Alfred Hitchcock, Nicolas Roeg, David Lynch, Brian de Palma, Roman Polanski, or Alex Proyas could have easily been responsible for Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon’s very learn’d debut film. In a world where the division between reality and fantasy are blurred both...

Yeah from above you can tell I was not much into this compilation of short films. They kind of reminded me of all the first time student films I watched in film class, I'll even admit that my first film was nothing great, but as much as I tried to enjoy any of the...