Big brother is watching you. That seems to be the common theme amongst science fiction films that take place in the near future; a totalitarian society where the government believes it is in your best interest to monitor you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Eyeborgs...

The J-Horror fondness for making us afraid of the sight of long, black hair has reached its zenith this year with two movies in which the hair itself (rather than the ashen faced ghoul it’s attached to) represents the major threat. South Korea’s THE WIG was a...

Opening with a quote from the Book of the Revelation, Evilution’s story appropriately begins at a U.S. Army Research Facility somewhere in Iraq. Where a very frightened U.S. Army researcher is being pursued by some very energetic undead test subjects. It’s clear from...

A visceral prologue apes - inevitably - the 28 DAYS/WEEKS LATER movies with its frenetic shaki-cam work, fast-cuts and faster-moving “zombies” : an Iraqi research station where an alien bacterium - discovered to have the ability to revive the dead and possess the...

Just what the hell happened to this flick! A few years ago I was looking though Fangoria and saw what looked to be a promising film, then titled just "Samhain". I waited years to check it out and finally it's released direct to DVD from Lion Gates. The problem is that...

A psychologist named C. J. Arnold (Richard Crenna) purchases a dilapidated historical mansion built prior to the civil war in hopes of restoring the estate and making it a drug rehabilitation clinic with the help of some of his students and current patients. When he...

Quite simply, Yorgos Noussias’s Evil is the by-the-numbers zombie flick. To state that it is rote and uninspired is issuing the work benefit of the doubt. Granted, in respect to zombie gore, it does fulfill its promise to readily spar with its European counterparts of...

“Central to the effect and fascination of horror films is their fulfillment of our nightmare wish to smash the norms that oppress us and which our moral conditioning teaches us to revere.” --Robin Wood, “Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan” Aside from housing the...

"Evil Remains" stars Estella Warren (Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes), which is pretty much why I rented this film, plus the good box cover and promising story and images on the back of the box. Well folks in terms of quality we do get a well produced picture with...

Toshiharu Ikeda’s Evil Dead Trap is a film made by a horror fan. Despite its restricted budget, the work functions admirably and, in lieu of presenting nothing extraordinary, manages to keep its audience entertained throughout. Nothing more, nothing less--which is...

Evil Dead II is a slicker version of its predecessor, served with a very liberal dose of humor in place of the former’s nerve-wracking suspense. Unfortunately, as director Sam Raimi attempts to rejuvenate his tale in order to keep from merely repeating himself, his...

Paul W.S. Anderson’s early sci-fi horror effort, Event Horizon, is favored by only three-and-a-half critics, including myself (one critic was indifferent, thus I’m going to chalk that one up as a partial win). The film undeniably strikes a cord in its viewers--despite...

Helmed by Jim Minton, Exquisite Copse takes its name literally and twice over: The work is an aggregation of short horror films from an international cast of directors, based on the flash fiction and poetry of genre writer Michael Arnzen, and set to composer Michael...

"Expiration" is by no means a horror film in the fact that it has monsters, serial killers or ghosts in it, matter of fact it's got nothing in it that would make it quality as a Horror or Sci-Fi film. What made this film scary was it took issues that we all as...