I can remember going to the movies in 1999 by myself and seeing Lake Placid in theaters. I remember it being one of the shortest feature films I’ve ever seen. The film was only eighty two minutes long. It was short, but it was straight to the point and for the...
After cutting his teeth on the second and third installments of the Friday the 13th saga before rightfully descending into the depths of television direction, Steve Miner resurfaced (sorry) to make Lake Placid, a wry B-movie, replete with a 30-foot crocodile, cozily...
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...
