An American Haunting

An American Haunting

Before I get into this review I will finally go on record as actually making a stand in the movie theater and turning around to tell a bunch of thugs and their girlfriends to literary “Shut the Fuck up or get out of the theater” Those were in fact my exact...
An American Haunting

An American Haunting

always look forward to a poorly reviewed work because I like rooting for the underdog and enjoy the challenge of finding something that others might have overlooked. Granted, this is indeed a fruitless effort in most cases, yet–as the old adage goes–half...
An American Crime

An American Crime

Emerging shortly after the movie adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s punishing THE GIRL NEXT DOOR – a fictionalized version of the Sylvia Likens case – comes this absorbing alternate cinematic interpretation of the horrifying events, this time with some of the...
Amityville II: The Possession

Amityville II: The Possession

n respect to the horror genre, when Italy meets America, it seems as if only good things could come from the collaboration. As such, director Damiano Damiani’s follow-up to Stuart Rosenberg’s blockbuster, The Amityville Horror, Amityville II: The Possession, is a work...
The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror

I have lived on Long Island my whole life, I lived in four different towns throughout the island. If I were to go up the road, make a quick right, drive about 6 miles, make a quick left and I can be sitting in front of the Amityville Horror house in about ten minutes....
The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror

There is a reason that Andrew Douglas’s redux of Stuart Rosenberg’s The Amityville Horror was not screened for critics: It is sadly similar to Zack Snyder’s remake of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead in that neither director understands the social allegory involved...