Director William Castle and screenwriter Robb White know how to tell a story. However, they never chanced a narrative mishap spoiling potential box office returns because they used gimmicks during the screening of their films in order to creative notoriety for the...
There are so many pointless low budget vampire movies out there and so many more being made each year that I usually just pass them by at the video store and laugh at the titles for most of them. While my expectations were the same for this vampire film titled: The...
Christian Nyby–better known throughout Hollywood as Howard Hawkes’s editor on such projects as The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, and Red River–took the directorial reigns for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and Hawkes’s adaptation of John Campbell’s “Who...
John Carpenter’s postmodern, Lovecraftian horror thriller “of pure suspense unseen since the days of Hitchcock [ . . . ]” as decreed by Filpside Movie Emproium’s Rob Vaux, The Thing was initially lambasted by critics and ignored by audiences–no doubt due in part...
There’s always some new tweak on the vampire mythos with every incarnation. Some, like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” always (mostly) made a clear distinction between the living (non-demon) and the undead (demon). Then there was stuff like TWILIGHT, that made vampires...
I recently stated in a recent review how much all of these Asian horror films that have been unleashed on the American market have really not been living up to my standards as good films. I now seem to stand corrected, as I have found a diamond in the ruff. Alright,...
