The eponymous Tony (an astonishingly good Peter Ferdinando) lives in a depressing old bloke’s flat in an equally depressing London suburb. He looks like somebody’s downbeat, if basically harmless, dad. He has been unemployed for 20 odd years, and the most...

Amando de Ossorio, with his fresh, apocalyptic vision of the undead nihilistically portrayed in an uncompromising manner in which death languorously creeps upon humanity, created one of the most devastating zombie tales ever set to celluloid. In so doing, he...

There are a lot of ghost stories that plague the horror scene; some are good, while others fail to get their point across. The problems with most films that involve haunting and ghost are the stories usually have a hard time keeping the audience entertained,...

This nifty, quirky little Spanish thriller starts out as a deft Hitchcockian thriller, complete with voyeuristic Everyman (a nicely understated performance by Karra Elejalde, making for a pleasingly unfashionable middle aged hero), an imperiled - and stripped - pretty...

It's seems that as of late one horror film can't be made without having a reference from another horror film in it or at least have some hint or sequence that play homage to another horror film. Such is the case with TIMBER FALLS, which takes a lot from horror films...

I hate to rip on films, but this is yet another case of someone not reading my rules for summiting their film for review. Although a lot better than most of the film that involve a cheap camera bought from Best Buy, and getting a group of friend together to make a...

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...