Horror
After Dusk They Come
People always tell me that being a film reviewer must be a great job. It really is but, like every job, it has its up and downs. They ask me, “Well, what could be so hard about reviewing movies? I mean, you get to watch movies all the time!” Correction, folks. I have to watch [...]
Strippers vs. Werewolves
The immortal rivalry between strippers and werewolves finally comes to the screen in the astonishingly unimaginatively-titled Strippers vs. Werewolves. Or something like that. Despite its similarly utilitarian title, this film has no relation to Charles Band’s recent production Zombies vs. Strippers, or Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!: Zombies vs. Strippers, or even Zombie Strippers, may God have [...]
Killer Klowns from Outer Space on Blu-ray
Killer Klowns from Outer Space‘s cult following has grown steadily since its release in 1988, and thus it was only a matter of time really before it received the full HD treatment. Now, thanks to Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, this most curious entry in horror from special effects team the Chiodo Brothers (Critters, Team [...]
The Revenant
To start out by giving writer/director Kerry Prior a lot of credit, this is a truly unique zombie movie. Except, it’s not really fair to call The Revenant a zombie film. It’s a revenant film. Now, on the spectrum of undead creatures, a revenant is somewhere between a zombie and a vampire. Decomposing surely, but [...]
Area 407
IFC Entertainment is a well-known distributor and leader in the independent film industry. You might assume their films would be high-brow international or “art cinema” films, but interestingly they have multiple brands and a range of films. One of their more recent releases is Area 407, released on DVD, which joins the ranks of other [...]
Re-Animator on Blu-ray
Even after 27 years, Stuart Gordon’s zombie-filled gore fest from 1985 still wows newcomers to the cinematically-realized world of H.P. Lovecraft’s Miskatonic University, where graduate student Herbert West (played with maniacal zeal by Jeffrey Combs) conducts mad experiments on the dead. Honestly, were someone to claim in my presence that Re-Animator stands as the single [...]
Mother’s Day (1980)
Anyone who’s spent much time trolling the depths of low-budget exploitation film history is sure to be familiar with the name “Troma.” The company, founded in the early 1970s, is still a force in independent cinema to this day, recently releasing over a hundred films to be viewed for free on Youtube. However, Troma’s heyday [...]
Piranha 3DD
Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D managed to be one of the few remakes of recent years to stand on its own merits as a great new take on the original film’s premise, mostly by ditching everything but the basic concept of Joe Dante’s original film and applying it to a modern-day college spring break setting. Aja [...]
Screaming in High Heels
The 1980s was a pretty great decade to be a horror fan: after the early-decade surge in slasher films, it seems like every other week another classic horror film was hitting the big screen somewhere. And the small screen started to offer more than it ever had before thanks to the popularity of video stores [...]
My Sucky Teen Romance
Some directors start their careers in ways that tend to define the way they are talked about for quite a while. In the case of Emily Hagins, for example, it’s virtually impossible to talk about her without mentioning the fact that she completed her first feature (a zombie film entitled Pathogen) at the age of [...]
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