Tag: Horror
New Year’s Evil
If the idea of a fairly inept sort of holiday themed slasher film starring Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days doesn’t appeal to you, you are probably not the target audience for New Year’s Evil. And that’s OK! For the rest of us, the MGM Limited Edition Collection has delivered another long-awaited “classic” on DVD for [...]
Knock Knock 2
If you’re wondering “When did Knock Knock come out?”, you’re not alone. Produced in 2006, the original Knock Knock is an interesting artifact of post-Saw/pre-Grindhouse horror. In a lot of ways, Knock Knock is a throwback to cheap 80s slasher films, only with that obnoxious jump-cut/strobe editing that the Saw films popularized in the mid-2000s. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Playback
15 years ago, a man named Harlan Diehl killed his entire family except for his infant son before police took him down. Today, a high school student named Julian (Johnny Pacar) is doing a high school project on the massacre. What he doesn’t know is that Diehl is the devil, or so the legend would [...]
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