The phenomenal success of 2002’s The Ring confuses me to this day. For the life of me I could not buy into the film’s preposterous story of a video tape that kills people one week after viewing it. During the screening I attended of the film I had to oftentimes… Continue reading
The degradation of the horror genre through taming it for the teens and pre-teens has to have the horror community at its wits end by now. Gone are the days of mainstream blood-soaked, sleep-with-the-lights-on tales of terror. You know the genre is in dire shape when one of the founders… Continue reading
Constantine turns the tables on the comic book adaptations of late that are all show and no substance. Here we have a film that is willing to dress itself up with an interesting and exciting story while at the same time still retaining the incredible special effects that we have… Continue reading
As long as director Uwe Boll is given money to make films, we are guaranteed at least one unintentionally uproarious gut-buster a year. In the case of this year, good old Mr. Boll will be reigning down a second film on us this fall: Bloodrayne. If it’s somehow twice as… Continue reading
We are now into February, and the month is immediately kicked off by another horror leftover, this time one that was originally slated to be a straight-to-video release. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the original plan was the demise that it deserved, but this is another… Continue reading
Hide and Seek takes an intriguing first hour of buildup and flushes it down the toilet by downgrading itself to another “killer on the loose” fable that has been done time and again as of late. This is all thanks to, of course, the near-given surprise “twist” that is in… Continue reading
I can’t recall another movie in recent memory that had such an effective ad campaign for a colossal mess. Sure, it happens often, but rarely on this scale. For those who are still a bit foggy about the details of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), here’s the basic jist: People who… Continue reading
Darkness is one hell of a god awful mess. Here is a film that wants so badly to be a clever horror film, but fails on virtually every level. It voluntarily chooses to follow the time-dishonored Hollywood wannabe horror film formula: Dark room, loud bangs in the soundtrack, silhouette crosses… Continue reading
Blade: Trinity is the third film in the series, and if things go well this time around it certainly won’t be the last. That’s not to say the film is good, as it is really a pale shadow to the much superior first two films. As the film opens, the… Continue reading
Seed of Chucky is an undeniably bad film. But it is also the kind of film that I have a hard time completely lowering the boom on. In my view, there are two kinds of bad films: Those that know they are bad and those who take themselves entirely too… Continue reading