Writer and director John Landis, primarily known for his comedies (The Blues Brothers, Animal House, The Kentucky Fried Movie, ¡Three Amigos!), presented the world with one of the greatest black horror comedies of all time with An American Werewolf in London. The work...

Before I get into this review I will finally go on record as actually making a stand in the movie theater and turning around to tell a bunch of thugs and their girlfriends to literary "Shut the Fuck up or get out of the theater" Those were in fact my exact words. It's...

always look forward to a poorly reviewed work because I like rooting for the underdog and enjoy the challenge of finding something that others might have overlooked. Granted, this is indeed a fruitless effort in most cases, yet--as the old adage goes--half the fun of...

Emerging shortly after the movie adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s punishing THE GIRL NEXT DOOR - a fictionalized version of the Sylvia Likens case - comes this absorbing alternate cinematic interpretation of the horrifying events, this time with some of the real names of...

n respect to the horror genre, when Italy meets America, it seems as if only good things could come from the collaboration. As such, director Damiano Damiani’s follow-up to Stuart Rosenberg’s blockbuster, The Amityville Horror, Amityville II: The Possession, is a work...

I have lived on Long Island my whole life, I lived in four different towns throughout the island. If I were to go up the road, make a quick right, drive about 6 miles, make a quick left and I can be sitting in front of the Amityville Horror house in about ten minutes....

There is a reason that Andrew Douglas’s redux of Stuart Rosenberg’s The Amityville Horror was not screened for critics: It is sadly similar to Zack Snyder’s remake of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead in that neither director understands the social allegory involved...

Twelve years after directing Cool Hand Luke, television-cum-Silver Screen director Stuart Rosenberg created what many label the iconographic haunted house narrative. In 1974, Ronald DeFeo killed his family with a shotgun before declaring that the estate’s voices were...

Zombie films are starting to litter video store shelves just as much as vampire films are and American Zombie is just another one to add to the fire. Seriously, ever since the rise of the zombie film in the past few years both on direct to DVD and in theaters the...

I grew up in Bakersfield, California, not exactly the forefront of the entertainment industry—but just around the corner (well, if the corner took two hours to get around) was Los Angeles, and from Los Angeles was KTLA Channel 5. That’s where I first encountered...

American Psycho is a film I like to use to test people with: Either someone likes it or they don’t. If they say they don’t care for the movie, they’re disqualified on general principle. However, if they give it a thumbs up, they still haven’t passed, they have to tell...

This is probably one of the best documentaries about horror films ever made. The Documentary talks includes interviews with horror directors such as George Romero, Tobe Hopper, John Landis, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg, plus interviews with college...

Director Bernard Vorhaus’s The Amazing Mr. X is an all-but-forgotten near-classic of noir cinema which I cannot say enough about. Aside from its mold-shattering cinematography by John Alton, Vorhaus blurs the line between fraudulent manipulation and the unknown as he...

Airplane flight is always a risk. They say flying in a plane is safer than driving your car. However, I think you have better odds of surviving a car crash. Lets face the facts, after the 9/11 tragedy, the fear of flying has increased. I know people who flat out...

Here's a little screen gem, that has made it's way though the major festival circuit, with a slight bit of star power and a few new faces, as well as a new, yet somewhat experienced crew of filmmakers. "Alone With Her" stars Colin Hanks (Tom Hanks son) in an...