The latest Platinum Dunes remake, a year on from FRIDAY THE 13TH, is their weakest. It displays mild promise at the outset via an effectively eerie title sequence accompanied by Steve Jablosnky’s otherwise generic score offering a creepy appropriation of the...
Not only did the character of Freddy Kruger save New Line Cinema from bankruptcy, prompting the studio to be jokingly referred to as “The House That Freddy Built,” but the iconographic figure added much-needed fuel to the waning slasher film–Paramount having...
With a self-explanatory title and Lance Henriksen’s evocative voiceover narration, this superbly edited and intelligent documentary consists of eloquent talking heads and extremely well chosen film clips. The heads (aside from a handful of writers like John Kenneth...
Director Rolfe Kanefsky has been making straight to video horror flicks for long enough (one doomed character here wears a “There’s Nothing Out There” T-shirt in honour of his 1989 slasher pastiche) to know that genre fans will sit through almost anything so long as...
So here we go again with another lost foreign film, bought to life on DVD from BCI Eclipse. This time its the 1974 Spanish Exploitation flick The Night of the Sorcerers. A film that is more like talkie/porn flick than it is a horror film. However the good thing about...
You know I get films like this all the time in the mail, I can’t say that I really like them, mainly because it was shot on digital and the production value is not that great, I feel like shutting them off. Well needless to say I felt the same about this film,...
