Despite all the bad reviews I read for this film when it was in theaters; I find myself once again in the minority. Awake is a very well written smart film that takes an easy plot and adds a twisty concept to a a disturbing phenomena known as anesthetic awareness. At...
I first saw Avatar in theaters a few weeks after its release. I thought I avoided the crowds seeing it six weeks past its release date, but to my surprise I was in a packed out theater late at night with a bunch of people who probably were thinking the same thing I...
Married co-screenwriters Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch (working here with E.L. Katz) earned a decidedly mixed reaction as co-scribes of Tobe Hooper’s decent TOOLBOX MURDERS remake and Argento’s dodgy but oddly likeable MOTHER OF TEARS. They team up again for this...
For the past few years the zombie film has quickly crept into the genre and taken over. You can even now consider it it’s own sub-genre right next to the vampire and ghost films. However I find that no matter how many different twist and turns you try to put on...
James Tucker issues us a gang of thugs who terrorize an innocent family. That’s it. There’s nothing here that hasn’t been done before, and on the same budget nonetheless (thus we aren’t even granted better photography or special effects this go around), i.e. Wes...
There’s really no way to properly introduce August Underground’s Mordum, except to say that that this is an amazing, and amazingly fucked up, piece of film. Unique in many respects, it still holds itself to the essential themes of the psycho/horror genre and provides...
