Brian DePalma’s 1973 movie SISTERS set the trend for the early part of his career, in which he successfully dressed up old Hitchcockian tropes with contemporary stylistic showiness and exploitation movie goodies. Although it is the work of a former short film...
Sisters is Brian De Palma’s first in a career of homages to his idol, Alfred Hitchcock. However, though thematically and cinematically similar to the master of suspense, the work exhibits what would be later dubbed as signature De Palma. Perhaps ironic in relation to...
Talk about a surprise film! When I first saw the cover I was like: Oh great another film with a great looking girl on the cover that’s most likely going to suck. I was wrong. “Simple Revenge” has one hell of a great story with more plot twists and...
A film that has some good reviews from some notable sites, but had a negative one from one of my writers kind of left me thinking who was really in the minority here. After SIMON SAYS, right from the get go had a lot of positive things about it. Crispin Glover as the...
A lot of low budget indie American horror films show up on the UK’s “Zone Horror” satellite TV channel (formerly “The Horror Channel”) before their DVD premieres in either the UK or the US. Most of these are bland at best, home movie-level at worst, but occasionally...
