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...
“Evil Remains” stars Estella Warren (Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes), which is pretty much why I rented this film, plus the good box cover and promising story and images on the back of the box. Well folks in terms of quality we do get a well...
Toshiharu Ikeda’s Evil Dead Trap is a film made by a horror fan. Despite its restricted budget, the work functions admirably and, in lieu of presenting nothing extraordinary, manages to keep its audience entertained throughout. Nothing more, nothing less–which...
Evil Dead II is a slicker version of its predecessor, served with a very liberal dose of humor in place of the former’s nerve-wracking suspense. Unfortunately, as director Sam Raimi attempts to rejuvenate his tale in order to keep from merely repeating himself, his...
