Screenwriters Rick Fry and Woody Keith took the short story, “Herbert West–Reanimator” by H. P. Lovecraft, and attempted to create another, in some respects, more faithful adaptation of the tale than Stuart Gordon’s original. Though still a very loose...
Bride of the Monster is an aggregation of firsts and lasts: It was Ed Wood’s first horror film (his third full-length feature after Glen or Glenda and Jailbait), Tor Johnson’s first onscreen portrayal of a character named Lobo, Bela Lugosi’s (second to) last role, the...
“An audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story.” –Mary Shelley James Whale was initially apathetic to the notion of creating a sequel to Frankenstein, which was partially justifiable considering that interest in monster films was on the...
Ronny Yu’s romantic horror comedy, Bride of Chucky, drastically veers to the left of the tone established by his Child’s Play predecessors by his focusing explicitly upon the title character’s acidic, wry tongue and placing horror second tier. Unlike what has come to...
If there is one Independent film I’ve seen this year that looked like it was made in a Hollywood studio it would be “Broken”. In a nutshell “Broken” puts most Independent films to shame. Made on only a budget of a mere eight thousand...
Broken is a film from the U.K. that takes a whole new turn at the survival horror sub-genre. While the film is being compared to the likes of Saw and Hostel, I saw it as being a film that had a lot more intelligence behind it. Now don’t get me wrong I thought...
