After his daunting Cronos, and fresh off the heals of The Devil’s Backbone, Guillermo del Toro presents the follow-up to Stephen Norrington’s Blade. However, the Mexican filmmaker’s ever-present style leaves a lot to be desired in what one can only hope is a potboiler...

Special effects artist-turned-director, Stephen Norrington, takes a subsidiary character from Marvel Comics’s almost decade-long series, Tomb of Dracula, and fashions a remarkable product: A film wherein a multitude of opportunities in which to create a production of...

Not to be confused with any of the various horror movies called DARK WATER, this is a tidy, pared-down revenge-of-nature flick from Australia, a country whose relatively sparse horror output often impresses. Largely a three hander and sporting a “based on a true...

Vulnerable, repressed ballerina Natalie Portman faces stiff competition from sexually confident, experienced new ballerina Mila Kunis when intimidating artistic director Vincent Cassel looks to replace prima-ballerina Winona Ryder for his New York production of “Swan...

Italian master Mario Bava set resounding quakes throughout cinema, not only by jumpstarting the giallo genre in his native land with Blood and Black Lace, but by bringing Italian horror into its own with his directorial debut, Black Sunday, a.k.a. The Mask of Satan...

This delicious Kiwi horror comedy has a lot of fun with an inherently absurd premise that, at first glance, seems as daft as killer bunny opus NIGHT OF THE LEPUS until you stop to consider the fact that sheep are, in fact, fairly ugly and intimidating creatures up...

Mario Bava’s anthology of short horror tales, Black Sabbath, though all entertaining in their own right and exhibiting varying degrees of effectiveness, ultimately serve as a trio of amusing exercises in terror but little else. The works’ inability to posit anything...

Considering Edward Ludwig attempts to do nothing outside of mimic Gordon Douglas’s Them!, The Black Scorpion redeems itself on two counts, one intentional, the other not. First, the saving Grace: It is one of the final works by famed stop-motion genius Willis O’Brien...