Tales of the Unexplained
To be honest with you guys, I think this documentary just founds it's way to my doorstep, I don't even remember getting an e-mail about it or anything. But as always if it finds it's way to my door step I'll review it. Now "Tales of the Unexplained" seemed more like...
The Taking of Pelham 123 – Movie Review
I live in New York, about thirty miles outside of New York City, on Long Island. During the 9/11 attacks, I can remember watching the television and realizing that what was happening was not too far from my house. Five days later, I was shooting a film on a local...
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
Let’s face the fact, folks: Vampire films are not one in a million. There are so many of them, both original and unoriginal, that besides the classics that stand out, they are pretty much six of one, a half dozen of the other. The stories have similar plotlines and,...
Cigarette Burns
John Carpenter is one of my favorite horror directors, so when I heard he was going to make a film for the series, I imminently became interested in what he had to offer. Cigarette Burns is his entry into the Masters of Horror series. A cigarette burn is a small dot...
Uzumaki (Spiral) (DVD)
SYNOPSIS: From the land that brought us RINGU (The Ring) comes UZUMAKI (Spiral). The inhabitants of a small Japanese seaside town come under the influence of a strange force that causes an obsession with spiral forms. One by one, the townspeople fall under its spell....
C.H.U.D.
Douglas Cheek’s C.H.U.D. is admirable in that it houses style and tact but doesn’t attempt to do the monumental as the director contents himself with taking a standard, B-movie premise and polishing it to near perfection. The quality of the script is reflected in the...
Chuck
At the turn of the millennium, an ever-so-slight quake occurred. Its referred to as Chuck and it is Alex Turner’s debut film. As can be expected, Chuck is by no means perfect but, all things considered in respect to the genre of short film, the work is an outstanding...
Chrome Skull: Laid to Rest 2
In 2009, I came across a film that had an excellent trailer. Normally I never judge a film by how great the trailer is, and as I’ve learned recently, by how bad one can be. Laid to Rest, had an amazing trailer and it turned out that the film was not half bad either,...
The Choke
Don't let this box cover fool you, this film is nowhere as cool as it's box cover. But this cool looking box cover you see is just a marketing ploy. The film in fact does not have anyone getting skinned alive much less making a "Leatherface" mask from a face. "The...
Chocolate
Mick Garris is known by many as the director whom Stephen King entrusts all of his book to film adaptations with. Chocolate, although not a Stephen King story, is Micks entry into the Master of Horror Episodes, He is also the man who came up with the Masters of Horror...
Cheerleader Autopsy
Dir: Stu Dodge Sub Rosa Studios Synopsis- A group of cheerleaders are on their way to the big competition when a freak accident takes their lives in a tremendous horrendous fashion. That’s the whole movie, but when they are transferred to the local Morticians all hell...
The Christmas Season Massacre
The Christmas Season Massacre Dir: Jeremy Wallace Sub Rosa Studios This is a type of movie you’d have to have fun with. Christmas Season Massacre, can’t get anymore cliché than that eh! It leans itself on referential displays of homage. But a blast at that also. The...
Child’s Play 3
Director Jack Bender’s third installment in the Child’s Play series is a lukewarm production at best as he compromises the effectiveness of his predecessors, making a blatant, clichéd teen slasher targeted specifically at adolescents. However, by setting the film in...
Child’s Play 2
Though director John Lafia, cowriter of the original Child’s Play script, attempts to maintain the intensity of the film’s predecessor, Child’s Play 2 is marred by repetition, a gross of cinematic oversights, and the director’s preoccupation with his antagonist as he...
Child’s Play
Director Tom Holland single-handedly rejuvenated the vampire genre with Fright Night before presenting one of the most iconographic figures of modern horror with screenwriter Don Mancini’s demonic Pinocchio, Chucky. Well-made in most every respect, the threat of a...