Opening with a quote from the Book of the Revelation, Evilution’s story appropriately begins at a U.S. Army Research Facility somewhere in Iraq. Where a very frightened U.S. Army researcher is being pursued by some very energetic undead test subjects. It’s clear from...
A visceral prologue apes – inevitably – the 28 DAYS/WEEKS LATER movies with its frenetic shaki-cam work, fast-cuts and faster-moving “zombies” : an Iraqi research station where an alien bacterium – discovered to have the ability to revive the dead...
Just what the hell happened to this flick! A few years ago I was looking though Fangoria and saw what looked to be a promising film, then titled just “Samhain”. I waited years to check it out and finally it’s released direct to DVD from Lion Gates....
A psychologist named C. J. Arnold (Richard Crenna) purchases a dilapidated historical mansion built prior to the civil war in hopes of restoring the estate and making it a drug rehabilitation clinic with the help of some of his students and current patients. When he...
Quite simply, Yorgos Noussias’s Evil is the by-the-numbers zombie flick. To state that it is rote and uninspired is issuing the work benefit of the doubt. Granted, in respect to zombie gore, it does fulfill its promise to readily spar with its European counterparts of...
“Central to the effect and fascination of horror films is their fulfillment of our nightmare wish to smash the norms that oppress us and which our moral conditioning teaches us to revere.” –Robin Wood, “Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan” Aside from housing the...
