Nobody’s going in to SEA BEAST with any wild notions of high art—and frankly, once I realized that the main guy was Parker Lewis and he was old enough to have a teenage daughter, I was both full of low expectations and a little disheartened about how old I apparently...

DONNIE DARKO is one of the first cult films that I caught wind of before it blew up into the cult him it had become. I remember seeing it for the first time, and being blown away by the film. I still consider it to be one of the best films I've ever had the pleasure...

I'll admit that after buying the DVD for Joe Dante's first contribution to the Master of Horror series, Homecoming, that I was not impressed with it at all. Most of your e-mails I got saying I'm to conservative and what have you, and that was my reason for the bad...

Alex Nicol’s directorial debut is typically considered as a candidate for Worst Film of All Time. However, Floyd Crosby’s cinematography disqualifies the flick from candidacy within the Top Five but the stillborn storyline, poor acting, and numerous non sequiturs...

Mr. Brett Piper. Good to see you again my friend. Oh by the way, I just witnessed Arachnia and man oh man. I could take it to a point with the Harryhuasen style stop motion animation but some of the character detail are a little off. Good flick but story line, needs...

"Scream for Me" is one messed up film, done with great style. Another well rounded great thriller from indie film director Christopher Allan Broadstone. I don't know where to begin, "Scream for Me" is disturbing, and it's one of those films that will make you very...

In 1997, just a few weeks after its release, I can remember walking into a packed theater by myself, crammed between two loudmouthed teenage girls expecting to see another mediocre horror film. I was surprised that the theater was sold out. It was the middle of...

Unjustly cast alongside John McNaughton’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, the only similarities that Jörg Buttgereit’s Schramm shares with its genre counterpart is that both pictures are, as NcNaughton’s subtitle succinctly states, intimate portraits of mass...

When I first started talking about horror films on message boards, the first board I ever joined was the Burnout-Central Message Board, that site is now no longer around, but the remnants of the board and site are still up on the web. One of the first filmmakers I...

As a teenager, Angela Bettis was abducted by a sadistic nut job known as “The Bishop”, was strapped to a gurney and tortured while being forced to make the decision as to whether to continue suffering or request that her friend (bound to a gurney opposite) be killed....

OH hell, someone help me out here for once. I mean some of these direct to video films have so much potential story wise but always fall short halfway though the film. Thus; this can be said for "Scarred" a new video release from MTI Video. Now "Scarred" has some...

Perhaps the most iconographic film in his oeuvre, Scanners is Canadian director David Cronenberg’s first steadfast effort as the work serves as his first transitional film in many, many respects: Its anticipates his shift to his mature, middle period by foregoing a...

Savage Harvest 2? I had no clue there was a Savage Harvest 1! Seriously though folks in a word of independent horror and digital video it's no wonder a film like Savage Harvest 2 can be made and released on DVD by a distributor like Elite. My thing is this though; am...

One of the most successful franchises on the past ten years, and of all time, is about to come full circle, or so they allege. The Saw franchise has been a big hit since the first film hit theaters in 2004. Since then, it spawned six sequels, including the latest...