LAKE MUNGO, though a rare Antipodean entry into the canon, is the latest genre film to explore the notion of “found footage” horror. It would appear a mere coincidence that, in release terms, it emerges so soon after the thematically very similar PARANORMAL ACTIVITY :...
“Blood is thicker than water, and ours is thicker than most…” notes a demented Granma at one point in After Dark’s LAKE DEAD, this year’s thirtieth (is anyone counting?) variation on the HILLS HAVE EYES / WRONG TURN / TEXAS CHAINSAW theme. Like the recent, equally...
Ken Russell, famed British director responsible for such works as The Devils, Altered States, and Women in Love, for whatever reason, decided to drop this bomb based on Bram Stoker’s last novel by the same name. Now, it is common knowledge that H. P. Lovecraft was...
I’ve learned a long time ago that you can never judge a film by it’s trailer, simply because trailers consist of all the good parts of the film and never the bad. LAID TO REST had a great trailer, so I was a bit skeptical about how great of a film it was...
I personally am a big fan of M. Night Shyamalan films, I think the guy is a genius, am I’m not scared to say it. I know what most critics think of him and his work, and personally I don’t care, and my track record of the films of his that I have reviewed...
When I was a child, I could not stand the film Labyrinth. Although my sisters loved it, and I tried a dozen or so times to watch it, I just could not get through the whole thing. Now, about twenty years later, not only did I watch the whole movie, but I found myself...
