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...
