Dumped by its studio (Warner Bros) following an abandoned original release date of October 2007, this marvelously atmospheric old-school horror anthology from Bryan Singer collaborator Michael Dougherty (he wrote SUPERMAN RETURNS and X2 ; Singer is a producer here)...

While growing up, the dog days of summer brought most kids down as the new school year snuck up on our lazy days. Living in the Midwest, local mom & pop shops would start hanging skeletons and jack o’ lanterns in their windows just before labor day. A sense of...

Following the suitably grungy, nasty DEATHLINE homage CREEP and the witty SEVERANCE - reworking the dark 9-5 humour of THE OFFICE into a backwoods horror framework - writer/director Chris Smith continues to show his versatility while staying within the genre he loves....

Here's a film where I liked it and didn't like it, and then ended up liking it. I don't know, this is really going to be a weird review for me. First off the story was cheesy as hell, and seeing Michael Gross as a prissy rich man and not Burt Gummer, really killed me....

TRAUMA was the first mainstream Hollywood film that director Dario Argento took on. Dario before hand was very well known as a master of the Italian giallo films, a sub-genre to the horror film, that only a handful of great Italian directors could pull off. It was...

A flawed but interesting horror anthology written by Dennis Bartok and boasting what seems like as many (Japanese) producers as cast members. The delightfully old-school Amicus-style wraparound is directed by Dante and is perhaps the most pleasurable part of the...

Transit Angel is a short independent film that I received in the mail not to long ago, I decided to pop it into the DVD player and check it out. Needless to say what I first saw and heard for that matter made me want to shut the film off. It looked much like a student...

As a kid I was obsessed with Transformers, I had a lot of the action figures, and when I heard of a live action film I was very excited. I know most people are not big fans of Michael Bay, but I really thought if your going to make a TRANSFORMERS movie right, with...

Films such as Saw and Hostel became the focal point for the recent sub-genre that many have dubbed “torture porn.” Since the genre's inception, a ton of independent and studio-based direct-to-DVD films have been made that fall into this category. I, personally, am not...

Wearing its influences on its sleeve with overt references to John Waters (abundant pink flamingos), Herschell Gordon Lewis (vivid Southern monsters) and EC horror comics, this screen adaptation of the Imperium Comics franchise refreshingly comes up with an unusually...

Following the success of Creature from the Black Lagoon and Revenge of the Creature, Jack Arnold issued Tarantula, a film which, much like his previous films, retains a Universal Monster sensibility yet, in creating a cautionary tale involving scientifically-created...

Directed by Francis Xavier DeGennaro What do you get when a dyslexic musician with a heart condition who can’t write and has no film experience sets out on a path of artistic direction that spirals from creativity to insanity? A dicey proposition at best – all of the...

I witnessed a trailer for this on my horror ventures across the web. TORTURE ME NO MORE, sounds savage. Lets take a gander and see what we come up with. A music video first off for the movie itself. I guess he’s good at music direction and video work? Some scenes...

After watching THE TORTURED you’re inclined to think that they should add stickers to all the DVD sleeves right below the marketing strap line “from the producers of SAW” that say, simply, and sarcastically, “yeah, you don’t say”. Overwrought from the get-go, this is...

You wont find George A Romero’s name on this alleged “remake” of his same-titled 1985 modern masterpiece though, given the great man’s association-by-proxy to recent tripe like CREEPSHOW 3 and DAY OF THE DEAD II : CONTAGIUM, he’s probably grateful for this fact. In...