Typical of the uneven nature of most of 2007’s “8 Films To Die For” releases, this Stan Winston production revolves around creatures that look like someone at Stan Winston Studios created a composite of earlier, better Winston-created monsters (namely, the Predator,...
The best thing about Devi Snively’s short film DEATH IN CHARGE is that even from the short 15 minutes I saw, I think I could pick out another of her movies in a line-up, and that’s a good thing. Her style is definitely distinctive; she says she’s aiming for a comics...
As I am writing this review of a film about one of the most notorious serial killers of all time; just a few miles from my home, police have discovered four bodies right near my family’s beach house. They think it’s the work of a serial killer, a very smart one. This...
Potentially creepy set-ups and an interesting monster both go begging thanks to amateurish acting and direction in this no-budget British horror, shot in some woods in East Sussex and punctuated by day-by-day inter-titles a la THE SHINING. There all comparisons to THE...
When I first caught wind of DEAD SNOW, I was browsing though Yahoo Movies and saw some great production stills. The pictures showed zombies dressed as Nazis standing in the snow. The effects looked great and, from the film’s synopsis, I thought I was in for a...
In 2003, the debut film of director James Wan took the horror genre by storm. Saw and its enigmatic, ethically-driven serial killer mastermind, Jigsaw, was immediately cast into the annals of horror villains as he became the twenty-first century successor to Hannibal...
