Director William Castle and screenwriter Robb White know how to tell a story. However, they never chanced a narrative mishap spoiling potential box office returns because they used gimmicks during the screening of their films in order to creative notoriety for the...

There are so many pointless low budget vampire movies out there and so many more being made each year that I usually just pass them by at the video store and laugh at the titles for most of them. While my expectations were the same for this vampire film titled: The...

Christian Nyby--better known throughout Hollywood as Howard Hawkes’s editor on such projects as The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, and Red River--took the directorial reigns for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and Hawkes’s adaptation of John Campbell’s “Who Goes...

John Carpenter’s postmodern, Lovecraftian horror thriller “of pure suspense unseen since the days of Hitchcock [ . . . ]” as decreed by Filpside Movie Emproium’s Rob Vaux, The Thing was initially lambasted by critics and ignored by audiences--no doubt due in part to...

There’s always some new tweak on the vampire mythos with every incarnation. Some, like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” always (mostly) made a clear distinction between the living (non-demon) and the undead (demon). Then there was stuff like TWILIGHT, that made vampires...

I recently stated in a recent review how much all of these Asian horror films that have been unleashed on the American market have really not been living up to my standards as good films. I now seem to stand corrected, as I have found a diamond in the ruff. Alright,...

John Carpenter’s impetus for wanting to become a filmmaker was Jack Arnold’s It Came from Outer Space atop the famed Westerns of the era. As a result, many of his works reflect his infatuation with both genres in that many of his lone protagonists come to find...

Considering I am critiquing a film where the main character kills off his critics after they issued him poor reviews, I must confess I loved the film. (No, seriously, I did, and here’s why.) The work presents Shakespeare in a modern, however Gothic, light while...

For some reason when I first heard of a prequel to the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I said to myself that now this remake thing is going way to far. I mean really a prequel to a remake of one of the most brutal films ever made. I mean the remake that came out in...

On the position that the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is more violent and gory than the original, and the fact that there was not one once of comedy like there was in the original, I seriously have no choice but to give this film it's well deserved **1/2...

Tobe Hooper’s (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, The Funhouse) directorial debut, The Texas Chain Saw Masscare (TCM), stands alongside William Friedkin’s The Exorcist as the godfather of Grand Guignol in modern horror. The irony in this is that Hooper uses suggestion to its...

"Tetsuo: The Iron Man" is one hell of a strange film. Produced in 1988 in Japan, The film is directed and constructed from the imagination of Shinya Tsukamoto the director of such bizarre films such as "A Snake of June" and "Vital". Tetsuo: The Iron Man" can best be...

Shinya Tsukamoto created the legendary Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Many critics cited Eraserhead by comparison on two counts: the absurdist theme atop the black and white photography. However, I would add Darren Aronofsky’s Pi to the mix to give the reader a better sense of...

Roger Corman is said to be the world’s most successful director. It is said that he never has made a movie from which he did not profit. Almost everything with which he has been involved has made money and been a success. In realty, he is probably the most successful...