Killer Double Feature: Bad Dreams & Visiting Hours
Shout Factory has a series of DVD titles that feature two films on one disc. Many are action double features or Roger Corman Double, Triple or Quadruple features. This disc is titled Killer Double Feature. It contains two movies: Bad Dream and Visiting Hours. Bad...
Cat People
The RKO team comprised of director Jacques Tournear (Night of the Demon, I Walked with a Zombie), screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen (his first script), and producer Val Lewton created with Cat People what is considered by many to be the epitome of understatement in cinema....
Virus X
If I’ve said once I must have said it a thousand times; Direct to DVD horror films are a dime a dozen. The market is full of them; some are real gems while the majorities are duds There is a market for them; a lot of people will enjoy anything that has a decent...
Catharsis
If anyone says that David Stagnari film Catharsis is not some of the best film making they have ever seen, then they should go get themselves a better education in film. I'll be the first person to admit that I'm not one for films that have a unique art house vision...
Virus (Fukkatsu no hi)
Kinji Fukasaku’s attempt at making a masterpiece which the entire world could relate--a post-apocalyptic narrative involving an international cast set throughout the globe--unfortunately suffered a fate not unlike most of humanity during the film. After almost an hour...
Catacombs
From Twisted Pictures the production company that bought us the Saw franchise comes a new kind of horror film called Catacombs. Well maybe it's not so new, as it does follow a slasher in the dark kind of format, yet the movie takes place in France in the largest mass...
Vipers
The Sci-fi Channel CG creature feature bandwagon winds on relentlessly with this absolutely standard, though undeniably appealing, slice of schlock. In the kind of premise that has only been used around 64 times within this year’s genre canon, genetically enhanced...
Vinyan
The jungle horror film seems to be creeping it's way back into the genre slowly. With films like WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE and with Ruggero Deodato making another cannibal movie it looks like we might start to see more of them in the coming years. VINYAN is a different...
Castle Freak
Director Stuart Gordon and screenwriter Dennis Paoli return with their Re-Animator/From Beyond crew as they attempt to toss their hat into the horror-sans-comedy ring with a very liberal H. P. Lovecraft adaptation. Interestingly, if approached as a gothic thriller in...
The Village
For the first time I thought I was going to hate an M. Night Shyamalan film, however "The Village" which starts off slow, slowly become a great intense thriller. The story start off with a small village in which a community of people in the late 1800's have their...
Case 39
Director Christian Alvart made the dark, foreboding German variation on SE7EN, ANTIBODIES, and his experience in Hollywood seems pretty typical. Imported on the strength of a distinctive, disturbing homegrown movie, he was given a very streamlined, generic movie with...
Video Violence / Video Violence 2
I don't get it! How the hell does a company like Camp Motion Pictures manage to get someone like myself into such low budget, shot on VHS horror films from the eighties. I mean I get a lot of crap sent to me from filmmakers from all over the world, but then I get a...
Videodrome
Many cite David Cronenberg’s remake of Kurt Neumann’s 1958 film, The Fly, as the Canadian director’s masterpiece. Surely, in respect to the work’s narrative fluidity, rotund characterization, and virtuoso acting--especially on behalf of Jeff Goldblum--it is easily the...
Vicious
I figured with such a well put together cast this film would of been somewhat decent, however it was far from it. "Vicious" is a poor attempt of getting some great cult talent together and try to put them in a film that every fanboy would want to see. the films got a...
Carver
You don't happen to have any extra tent stakes do you? This has got to be one of the dumbest pick up lines in a movie ever conceived. Carver is a film that is what I would like to call the poor man's Hostel mixed with a bit of Texas Chainsaw Massacre re-make. However...