For this review, I thought I would give some praise to another criminally overlooked and underrated film from the past. So, without further delay, let’s jump right into Brooke L. Peters’ creep-fest, The Unearthly! Based on a story by Jane Mann, who also co-wrote the script with Geoffrey Dennis, (a.k.a. John D.F. Black) The Unearthly […]
Ah, the early-to-mid-eighties…what a great time for us horror-types! The slasher film was at its apex, and it was hard to find a single weekend when there wasn’t some new addition to our genre at the local theater; flicks like Xtro, Cujo, and Cronenberg’s Videodrome filled in the blanks around the latest outing of your favorite psycho running […]
Have any of you seen the Kevin Bacon movie Stir of Echoes? Chances are that you haven’t, because it came out around the same time as the Sixth Sense and was very much overshadowed by it. Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down and watching this movie with my husband. Let me tell you, […]
Over the years, there’s been quite a few anthology horror films; The House That Dripped Blood, Tales From The Crypt, Vault Of Horror, Asylum…on into more modern times with the likes of Nightmares, Campfire Tales, All Hallow’s Eve, and the V/H/S films. We Fellow Fans have come to accept that these are typically hit-and-miss, but […]
Those of us that carry a passion for low-budget films also have specific knowledge of the art-form that the average movie viewer gleefully remains ignorant to. Granted, there have been independently made pieces of work that found their way into the pantheon of popular culture. However, for every “success”, there are countless visions that get […]
I’ve long wondered about the use of the term ‘Science-Fiction’. To me, it doesn’t seem appropriate, as I can see pretty much every scenario presented in the genre as being possible. Some humans would call this point of view ridiculous, others, impossible. Considering that Fahrenheit 451 is usually filed away in this reality, I have […]
We Fellow Fans are perfectly aware that the kind of horror steeped in a dark, occult history, typically referred to as Gothic horror, is limited to neither a certain time period nor European locales. Although tales such as Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula have put an indelible stamp on the term, the deliciously creepy combination of […]
All of us have seen countless examples of those films where a group of people are trapped in some kind of isolated locale where escape is not merely unlikely, it’s impossible; an oil rig during a storm, a drifting, disabled cruise ship, or an electronically-sealed research facility. Perhaps the location itself is very remote and/or […]
Looking back over the years, there are certain films that come to be tent poles of any genre; our beloved horror is no exception. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu stand out in the early years of silent films; the Universal trio of Dracula, Frankenstein and The Wolf Man established the horror film from […]
To this day, my father is always delighted to relate a story about my much younger self and how I dealt with horror flicks; well, really just the commercial for a particular one: the 1978 Richard Attenborough film, Magic. The ad was simply a close shot of the ventriloquist dummy featured in the movie as he recited […]
The frustration so many of us feel about sequels has always been connected to the idea that they are never as good as the original, which instantly makes us biased to what may occur. The error to this thinking is when an interesting concept comes along, we, as fans, end up doing comparisons rather than […]
If you’re old enough to recall the summer of 1975, congratulations! Like me, you remember a time before computers, cell phones and Star Wars; a time when our younger selves would be outside playing till the streetlights came on and nobody worried about it; a time when horror films were something we caught on the […]
The works of H.P. Lovecraft are among the most influential tales in Horror. His fiction often employed mechanics that would resurface in theoretical physics papers years later. All too often, though, films that attempt to capture the full scope of his tales end up unceremoniously butchering them. In honor of any fan who has gotten […]
So…here I sit at the keyboard, pondering tapping out a review for the Beowulf of zombie flicks, the original, classic Night of the Living Dead. Where does one begin? So much has already been said about this groundbreaking film; many have already made the observation that it is one of most important films of our […]
