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...

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...

As a young kid I always would sit in front of the television at night, when Unsolved Mysteries came on and that music used to play, it used to scare the shit out of me. And at times what made it worse was how scary they would make the stories sound and the way they...

Tagline: The cost of medical school may be your life. What Eli Roth has done with Slovakian Hostels, Jason Todd Ipson has done for Medical School. Unrest opens with a provocatively gore-infused reality of Gross Anatomy. A bit too much for the queasy at heart and...

Three credited writers have failed to make UNTRACEABLE anything more than an efficient, workmanlike thriller heavily indebted to the major serial killer movies of the past two decades. There’s the feisty yet emotionally vulnerable FBI female protagonist a la Clarice...

In 2001 an unmanned train began a 66 mile journey though northwest Ohio with no one at the controls. This was all due to the engineer’s error of leaving the train to switch the track and not setting the controls properly. This true event was the basis for the story of...

When I first saw "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" I can remember that the only thing that made the film for me was the music. it went very well with the animation and it had this cool tone to it that went well with the film from it's darkest scenes into its...

Most people don't really know that THE UNINVITED is a remake of a well known Korean horror film called A TALE OF TWO SISTERS. Most hardcore horror fans know this, but the average person who saw this film in theaters probably had no clue. Cinematically A TALE OF TWO...

So, a few weeks ago, I was getting confused. Right around the same time, two horror films were making the rounds—THE UNBORN and THE UNINVITED. I’ve seen them both now, and I can definitely tell them apart; neither film is spectacular, or really even very memorable,...

So what if an urban legend told to keep kids out of the woods at night was actually true and people within the town all knew about it. Covering up what is one big giant conspiracy to hide a secret government experiment that was taken from the Nazi regime as a...

Matthew Leutwyler, the writer and director of the splendid indie DEAD AND BREAKFAST follows it with an old-school monster-on-the-loose-in-a-desert-town 50’s-influenced creature feature, released as part of After Dark’s 2007 8 Films to Die For Horror fest. Its first...

The UNDERWORLD movies have been those vampire films in the past few years that have sought of been under the radar, but yet made enough money to be a success to garnish it's self into a trilogy. Just the other day I was discussing with a colleague of mine how the...

Here’s a prequel that brings the trilogy full circle by depicting events leading up to UNDERWORLD and UNDERWORLD : EVOLUTION, closing with a clip of otherwise absent female lead Kate Beckinsale in iconic black PVC pose atop a rooftop. Those who were paying close...

With the third film RISE OF THE LYCANS about to hit theaters its a no brainer that Sony would put out a special Double Feature DVD that includes the first two films in the UNDERWORLD series, UNDERWORLD and UNDERWORLD EVOLUTION. The first two films had some pretty...