I'm always constantly talking about the big mistakes that independent filmmakers make when it comes to producing their first film. It's no secret that I've made them when I was making movies, and it's the reason why I'm able to point out a lot of rookie mistakes....

Eyes of the corrupt Judge Turpin played deliciously by the deviant Alan Rickman befall simple barber Benjamin Barker and his beautiful wife. The judge has Barker sent to prison for a crime he doesn’t commit, takes his wife then raises Barker’s daughter as his own....

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is based on the stage musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. The Stage musical as well as the film is based on the urban legend of Sweeney Todd. I never knew much about the whole Sweeney Todd story other than...

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...

After viewing Volume One of the Swamp Thing series a few months ago, I was shocked to see that Volume Two land in my mailbox this month. I found it funny because not to long before I got this series I was having a conversation about the films with a friend of mine,...

I first stumbled across Swamp Thing as a kid when Wes Craven was given the reigns to direct the first swamp Thing films based on the DC Comics Graphic novel by Alan Moore. I was probably around six or seven years old when I first saw the film, and I loved every minute...

Immediately following Deep Red, Italian director Dario Argento considered adapting a work by H.P. Lovecraft to the big screen. Instead of being constrained to another thinker’s ideas, Aregento opted to take the American gothic writer’s essence of unseen forces and...

While Survival Quest is a film that does not fit with the theme of the site, I still decided to review it; mainly because Phantasm Director Don Coscarelli also directed this picture. So I figured why not, the man has given us some of the graced us with some of the...

In 1968 while driving to New York city with a little film that he had just shot, which eventually eventually be titled Night of the Living Dead; George Romero, while listening to the radio, soon would learn that civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was killed....

This is George Romero's sixth DEAD movie and his third in four years, reflective of the sub-genres resurgent popularity in the wake of a remake of his own DAWN OF THE DEAD. The new movie uses a secondary character (squad leader Alan Van Sprang, seen in both LAND OF...

Back in the early 90’s, BOXING HELENA was an interesting failure, a fascinating curio that met with such critical bile that its creator, Jennifer Chambers Lynch remained in the shadow of her father and didn’t make another film for 15 years. The comeback flick,...

Technology will always be there to help the human race achieve goals faster and to boost production of products which, in turn, will make our lives more efficient and easier to live. However, as with every positive, there is always a down side, and even with something...

This independent film about the hazards of dabbling with “the forces of darkness” opens with a simple animated narration explaining how Native American life was disrupted by settlers. After forcing images of their god upon the indigenous population, the new arrivals’...

By the look of the DVD box cover and the fact that Twilight’s Ashley Greene’s image dons the cover, I thought Summer’s Moon was going to be a vampire film. The film's opening title sequence with a man talking about his life while blood spills upon a pile of tools...