Hollywood has already cottoned on to the wave of brilliantly effective, hardcore horror movies emerging from France. HAUTE TENSION (HIGH TENSION) was altered for mainstream American consumption and its director brought on board the remake train with THE HILLS HAVE...

FROM WITHIN is another example of a horror movie that takes ideas from other horror films and uses what I like to call the blender effect. If you don't know what I mean, then just think of three horror films you like and try to put their plots together. That's kind of...

Stuart Gordon and the crew from Re-Animator return with another tale from American gothic writer H. P. Lovecraft as the audience is bombarded with another round of mad scientists on the pursuit of forbidden knowledge. Instead of reanimating the dead, Gordon’s...

If your album starts off with the sample from Tony Malum’s ( Who coincidentally produced a Genesis video back in 1977, which had connection with the progressive bands back in the British days who coincidentally included Yes. Which in turn included Rick Wakeman which...

I can vaguely remember the first time I saw the original Fright Night. I know it was on cable television late at night when I was in middle school and it scared the hell out of me. I can remember the scene where William Ragsdale is locked in his room with crosses all...

Tom Holland (Child's Play, Thinner) gives us Fright Night, a self-referential, shotgun blast of vampire cinema in a mocking horror comedy vein. The film works a majority of the time yet lags in most every respect right when Holland should have been clinching the deal....

With Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, one thing becomes obvious: the production company’s agenda. After the Friday the 13th Box Office peaked with Steve Minor’s Friday the 13th Part 3, our machete-carrying zombie’s returns steadily declined with each new chapter....

To date, teleplay writer Rob Hedden is only the second person to single-handedly write and direct a Friday the 13th feature. As such, the writer-director is not only to be commended for creating the best title within the Friday franchise, but for fashioning one of the...

Makeup and special effects artist John Carl Buechler, after pausing to direct Troll two years prior, steps behind the camera once again to bring Jason Voorhees back to form in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. However, in order to counter the newly-minted...

Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives is the film that turned Jason into a zombie. It's the film that took the murderer and made him a monster. For myself as a kid who grew up in the eighties, this was the film that made Jason scary. Not to say that he wasn't in the...

As Ginny hypothesizes in Steve Minor’s Friday the 13th Part 2, mass murdering Jason Voorhees might not have been aware of mortality, be it his own or anyone else’s, until he witnessed his mother’s death. Of course, given that Pamela Voorhees’s demise is the only...

WARNING: This Review contains spoilers about the films conclusion. Recently I had a conversation (and an agreement) about Jason being a ghost and being able to possess people as part of his persona. I even wrote about it in my review of the first film. We all know in...

Warning: The following is a literal “review” of Danny Steinmann’s Friday the 13th: A New Beginning in that it contains spoilers. Paramount Pictures, ready to hang up their Friday the 13th franchise after having killed off Jason Voorhees a year prior, resurrected their...

Here is the Friday the 13th film that was supposed to be the final Friday film. That is until Jason became a zombie in the sixth film. For some reason Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter seems to be the film that fans of the franchise seem to like the most. But if your...

Perhaps we should take a cue by Gordon, a dog who--midway through the fourth entry in the Friday the 13th series--voluntarily jumps out of a window while he still has a chance. Animals are said to possess a sixth sense about things. Apparently this includes an...