Back in the mid 1980’s a slew of cheap horror films were shot on VHS or 3/4 inch tape. Recently a company called Camp Motion Pictures decided to release some of the better, more campy films on DVD. I enjoyed those films because next to film those formats were...
If you have ever seen John Carpenter’s original version of “The Fog” I advise you to just keep on watching that version. Pretty much, for the most part folks, this version of the film is almost a shot for shot remake. I mean there are some things...
Need I comment on a film directed by, albeit an Oscar winner, nonetheless a makeup effects artist who gratuitously exploits, not only his production’s famed paterfamilias, David Cronenberg’s The Fly, but attempts to simultaneously remake the sequel to the original...
“To me, the mind is physical, the mind is the body. Without body there is no mind; there is nothing left of us when our bodies are dead, as far as I’m concerned. That’s it. So I’m a complete atheist for one thing and kind of an existentialist as well, so I don’t...
Based upon the debut screenwriting effort of famed author James Clavell of a story in Playboy Magazine a year prior by George Langelaan, Kurt Neumann’s The Fly is perhaps the perennial example of a subpar production whose premise nonetheless captured its audience’s...
Although the likeable SNAKES ON A PLANE wasn’t the box office smash New Line anticipated, the flurry of pre-release publicity helped encourage similarly themed old-school B horror movies to the screen. New Line have also picked up FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD which, like...
