Undead

“Undead” is a zombie film from Down Under from The Spierig Brothers. It’s great fun and the closest thing to a summer popcorn movie you’re likely to get from a zombie film. In the film a shower of meteors bombard a small town and an alien...
The Children

The Children

Tom Shankland, who made an intelligent if flawed torture-movie in last year’s WAZ, does a terrific job with this startlingly effective Christmas-set horror – a microcosm of apocalypse revolving around an unforeseen, mysterious threat and a small scale siege...
Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam

Larry Cohen has made his name as writer and director of some of the sharpest horror satire in modern times. Beginning with It’s Alive and continuing with The Stuff, Body Snatchers (with Stuart Gordon), and Manic Cop (with director William Lustig), Cohen penned a few...
Children of the Corn

Children of the Corn

I often say that many horror films are a dime a dozen. I say it with vampire, zombie and werewolf films. I should add remake to that mix. I never have been one of those people who bitch at the sight of every film that is remade. I know business is business, which is...
Children of the Corn

Children of the Corn

Stephen King always will be considered the “king” of horror fiction. From the late 70s until today, more than fifty of Kings novels and short stories have been made into a motion picture. Children of the Corn was the second film based on one of King’s short...