In a well-to-do area of Manhattan, nine year old Joshua (Jacob Kogan) is intelligent enough to be moved up two grades at school. He speaks and acts with a maturity far beyond his years. His prodigious piano playing favors the work of Bartok, to the extent that he...
Recently Silman-James Press sent me a copy of horror director John Carpenter. Director of such great classic horror films a Halloween, The Thing, They Live, Assault of Precinct 13, Escape from New York and L.A., and In the Mouth of Madness. The book is basically one...
William Beaudine’s Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter is the greatest Horror Western ever made in eight days for the sole reason that it is the only Horror Western made in eight days. Of course, its listing as one of the most atrocious stories ever set to...
Cloning is an issue that has recently been part of many stories in today’s society. Once thought of as nothing more than science fiction a few decades ago, it is now science fact. Dolly the sheep was the first followed by a slew of other animals. Human organs...
Though a surprising box office disappointment presumably due to a schizophrenic marketing campaign (a common trend amongst comic horror flicks), screenwriter Diablo Cody’s follow-up to her Oscar winning JUNO turns out to be an unpretentious, stylish retro-teen horror...
Horror films such as Jennifer’s Body are films within the genre that are a rarity. Normally, a film such as this would be pawned off as another boring, horror flick that was made to entertain the mindless teenagers that fill movie theaters throughout the world every...
