REC or no REC, this swiftly unleashed, yet somehow – inevitable U.S. remake is a relentlessly intense, genuinely frightening slice of hand-held, first-person horror. Like its Spanish forerunner, which it very faithfully reworks, it combines the fashionable...
At first, Larry Cohen’s winged, or in the film’s terminology, “plumed” serpent, the Mesoamerican god Quetzalcoatl, or “Q” for short, is merely a wry mock-up of latter-day Ray Harryhausen monster features. However, what would at first seem to be a film which places a...
Wow!!!! What a rush of a film. In the likes of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill series and Reservoir Dogs, “Running Scared” is full of violence, killing, and a lot of blood and death. It’s full of some many plot twists, you might have to watch the...
Terror has evolved. The Ruins was a bestseller from the author of A Simple Plan, Sam Raimi later adapted the book into one hell of an outstanding film. In this outing, a group of college students venture into an uncharted area where there’s supposed to be an ancient...
Two years ago I was sent Scott Smith’s novel The Ruins to review, I also ran a giveaway on the site and gave away a few copies to readers from the site. I loved the book and praised the hell out of it. (Review Here). When I heard that the best selling novel was...
