“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” –Samuel Johnson At the offset of the new year in 1931, Russian director Rouben Mamoulian (Laura, Cleopatra) presented the world with the definitive version of Robert Lewis Stevenson’s 1886...
When it comes to being a man; one thing that comes to mind is cars. Men should be freaks about cars; you’re not a real man if you don’t like cars. Football is the other one — every February some buddy of mine wants to know if I’ve figured out how to...
Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer is an interesting affair in that its popularity and reputation lies largely within its being one of the first “Video Nasties” banned in Europe. However, the irony stands in that The Driller Killer fails to hold even the vaguest light...
I first heard of director Tim Sullivan when I reviewed 2001 Maniacs a few years back. I really enjoyed Maniacs and once my review went live, Tim himself dropped me an e-mail thanking me for the review. Since then Tim has worked on many projects, but one of them that I...
I have often said that when you do something great in life, few will recognize what you have done. Kill someone and you live in the minds of people forever. Such is the case with every famous serial killer, and once again, another one is idolized in the direct to DVD...
Yeah, the title of this film might make you think it’s just some stupid, low budget, low rate dumb ass horror film. Well in a sense it is but it’s not. The movie pokes fun at those stupid film and at horror films in general. It’s actually very very...
