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...

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...

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 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,...

“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...

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...

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...

There was a time last year and in the beginning of this year that I thought all films out of Asia were nothing but pure brilliance. Do I still feel that way? Well, not really. "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" is the second film in the "Revenge" Trilogy which began with...

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...