Author Archive: Jason Coffman
Jason Coffman is a film writer living in Chicago. He writes reviews for Film Monthly and is a regular contributor to Fine Print Magazine (www.fineprintmag.net).
Father’s Day (4-Disc Limited Edition)
When I originally reviewed Father’s Day back in February (here), I knew the film was something great. Sure enough, six months later Father’s Day has proven to be my favorite film of 2012, and like all of the film’s rabid fans, I’ve been looking forward to its official release on Blu-ray for quite some time. [...]
Sixpack Annie
The 1970s was a great decade for exploitation film, and virtually no subject was off limits to enterprising filmmakers looking to make a quick buck on the drive-in circuit. The big studios rarely dipped their toes into most exploitation subgenres until they had proven to be profitable for the little guys, and sometimes they kept [...]
Dead Season
The seemingly endless torrent of direct-to-disc zombie films continues unabated, and Dead Season is one of the latest horrors to make its way to the DVD players of horror fans looking for diamonds in the rough. On the one hand, Dead Season doesn’t really offer anything that die-hard genre fans haven’t seen before. On the [...]
Girls Gone Dead
There’s a fine line between satirizing the exploitation of something like Girls Gone Wild and becoming that which is supposedly being satirized. In other words, when your film has nearly as many scenes of topless debauchery and lipstick lesbianism as an actual Girls Gone Wild video, it may be time to reconsider your approach. This [...]
Midnight Son
Vampires are so hot right now, sometimes it’s hard to remember that they really belong to the horror genre. With Twilight bringing massive popularity to bloodsuckers on a scale never before seen, many horror fans are left out in the cold. This dichotomy is nothing new, though– the clash between the romantic and monstrous vampire [...]
You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Kills You
Mention the concept of a “black horror” film and a handful of titles are likely to come to the mind of horror fans: Blacula, Sugar Hill, Def by Temptation, and anthologies like Tales from the Hood and the recent Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror are probably the best-known films in this unfortunately sparse subgenre. While [...]
Some Guy Who Kills People
Kevin Corrigan is very likely a familiar face to many film fans, even if they don’t know him by name. He’s appeared in dozens of films and television shows, one of those character actors whose appearance on screen is happily greeted with “Hey, it’s That Guy!” And so it makes some sense that the promotional [...]
Now a Terrifying Motion Picture: Twenty-Five Classic Works of Horror Adapted from Book to Film by James F. Broderick
If you’ve ever watched a classic adapted horror film and wondered about its source material, you’ll immediately grasp the concept behind James F. Broderick’s Now a Terrifying Motion Picture. Broderick chooses twenty-five horror/sci-fi classics that were based on literary sources and offers a profile on the source material as well as the film adaptation. This [...]
Gas Pump Girls
The MGM Limited Edition Collection just keeps cranking out the hidden gems, one of the latest being the 1979 comedy Gas Pump Girls. Unlike many of the films in the Limited Edition Collection, there has been a DVD release of Gas Pump Girls, but by all accounts the transfer on the previous release was an [...]
Exit Humanity
If there is any one thing sorely lacking in modern horror genre cinema as a whole, it is ambition. With a few notable examples that pop up each year, most horror films in general– and zombie films in particular– are happy to keep grinding away at the same story beats, with the same few characters, [...]
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