Check out these clips of Captivity. Clip 1 Clip 2 Captivity surprised the hell out of me. It has one of the strangest production teams behind it. Roland Joffe as the director who’s been nominated for several academy awards and has helmed films from The Killing Fields...

This review is probably going to be shorter than usual, simply because it's very hard for me to review a documentary that talks about real life history. With this documentary; THE VAMPIRE PRINCESS we get into the science behind the true identity of Dracula and his...

My initial reaction upon viewing the indie short film Camp Death was: “What the hell did I just watch?” No, this movie wasn’t a Cronenberg mindfucker or a Lynchian enigma…it was just barely visible. The viewing experience that Camp Death offers is pretty much exactly...

[Segments of the following review have previously appeared, in varied form, in City Slab Magazine #10.] Robert Bierman’s Vampire’s Kiss is, quite simply, not only one of the most criminally overlooked gems within the genre, but was--and continues to be--well ahead of...

"Candy Stripers" is about a group of hostel aliens who land in a small California town, however these aliens are not who they seem to be, and are on a mission to take over the earth. However the aliens in their quest take over the bodies of some candy stripers at the...

In a very similar vein to the CG-enhanced comic splatter shenanigans of the recent MACHINE GIRL and TOKYO GORE POLICE (co-director Yoshihiro Nishimura worked on both in either a directing or special effects capacity while Naoyuki Tomomatsu directed the stylistically...

Ok so maybe sometimes I fool for foreign films, I sometimes find them to always be a lot better than the films that studios here in America put out. My thing however with Calvaire is that it's more or less a horror film that we've all seen before, but the entire film...

Based on a story by Clive Barker, Valerie on the Stairs is story that is one to warp the mind of any fan of Barkers work. As a fan of Barkers early work, I can say that the man has never lost his feel when it comes to developing dark stories filled with lust and...

Enough cannot be said about The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s adaptation of the gothic American writer’s short story, “The Call of Cthulhu.” Put simply, the just sentiment for the masterpiece would have been the Oscar for Best Short Film. Given my proclivity...

Every story has a beginning, but I never thought that Sony Pictures would really green light a prequel to a thriller film that didn't even break even on it's opening day in theaters. Sure it had decent DVD sales and rentals, which is probably the reason why this movie...

I was a little hesitant to check this one out when I got this screener in the mail, I saw the original so long ago and although I can't say I remember it shot for shot, I know that it was a film I really enjoyed. The original Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a cult hit from...

A non-gory, suspense-based, pared-down thriller in the Hitchcock mould, VACANCY riffs on the HOSTEL premise of sicko middle-aged thrill-seekers exploiting / torturing / killing unsuspecting tourists and stranded urbanites. Although it has the added kink that, this...

A little over half of the critics who have commented on Nimród Antal’s English-language debut, Vacancy, gave the film a positive review. (cough) I wish I was getting paid what they were under the table (cough) James Berardinelli states that the work is “not...

Arguably, Robert Wiene (The Hands of Orlac) created the first significant horror film in cinema history. Irrefutably, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was the first psychological horror flick. Interestingly, most every element of horror can be found in Wiene’s highly...

Earnest performances, good pacing and a surprisingly impressive central creature all help make WYVERN one of the very best Sci-Fi Channel-originated CG monster movies. That may be damning it with the faintest of faint praise, but it really is a decent movie in its own...