John Carpenter’s impetus for wanting to become a filmmaker was Jack Arnold’s It Came from Outer Space atop the famed Westerns of the era. As a result, many of his works reflect his infatuation with both genres in that many of his lone protagonists come to find...
Considering I am critiquing a film where the main character kills off his critics after they issued him poor reviews, I must confess I loved the film. (No, seriously, I did, and here’s why.) The work presents Shakespeare in a modern, however Gothic, light while...
For some reason when I first heard of a prequel to the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I said to myself that now this remake thing is going way to far. I mean really a prequel to a remake of one of the most brutal films ever made. I mean the remake that came out in...
On the position that the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is more violent and gory than the original, and the fact that there was not one once of comedy like there was in the original, I seriously have no choice but to give this film it’s well deserved...
Tobe Hooper’s (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, The Funhouse) directorial debut, The Texas Chain Saw Masscare (TCM), stands alongside William Friedkin’s The Exorcist as the godfather of Grand Guignol in modern horror. The irony in this is that Hooper uses suggestion to its...
“Tetsuo: The Iron Man” is one hell of a strange film. Produced in 1988 in Japan, The film is directed and constructed from the imagination of Shinya Tsukamoto the director of such bizarre films such as “A Snake of June” and “Vital”....
