Haunted house films have seemingly been a hit or miss thing with me. It took a while before I grew to like William Malone’s The House...
I know that it’s not a favorite of a lot of people, but I absolutely love John Carpenter’s Prince Of Darkness. Not because Alice Cooper is...
They say that you’ve got to start somewhere in your film career. For many actors, it’s the horror genre. Kevin Bacon got his break after Friday...
As has been mentioned many times before by reviewers and critics, including myself, horror comedies are often the toughest films to create. And while I’ve had...
I know that I’m not the first horror junkie to have done a literary analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in university. I’m also not the first...
Who doesn’t love the idea of murderous squatters? Well, maybe not in the real-life sense, but as the basis for a horror movie, sure. It opens...
My love of B-Movies has a limit. I’m not a fan of many of the more recent offerings in the category, mainly perpetrated by SyFy. There’s...
The original After Dark Horrorfest was honestly a hit or miss thing with me. That’s not to say that there weren’t some good films in there...
After being disappointed with the recent crop of werewolf movies I’ve reviewed, I was admittedly reluctant to see Howl, the second film for effects designer turned...
Being an artist is hard in so many ways. Whether you’re a musician, film director, a traditional or a digital artist (I had to put that...
Bullying is one of the topics du jour at the moment. I’m not hesitant to admit that I was bullied for a long time in school,...
I hate giving advice, sometimes. Not because I dislike people or find their problems trivial. It’s more along the lines of not knowing what to say,...
I don’t get the deal with Charles Manson. It’s both fascinating and confounding how he’s managed to worm his way into the popular culture over the...
Takashi Miike. Depending on the horror fan, Miike is either a genius director or just plain crazy. After seeing Audition, Ichi The Killer, and sitting through...
In Deadly Revisions, Bill Oberst Jr.’s character Grafton Torn states that “a blank page is my nemesis”. And really, I have to agree. There are times...
In the zombie subgenre, it’s getting harder to set yourself apart from other films. Whether it’s having a different type of zombie in 28 Days Later,...
Films which have characters with the ability to communicate with the dead have always been kind of hit-or-miss with me. I’m not sure why that is,...
Before he hit it big with Hellraiser, Clive Barker focused his efforts on his writing. He also had time to dabble a bit in directing some...
Being a protégé of the late, great Stan Winston has some baggage to go along with the greatness. On one hand, you helped create some of...
I could tell more than a few stories about my hometown of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Some good, some not-so-good, some laughably bad. Regardless, unless you like...
Predator is one of the greatest sci-fi action films ever. Not many will dispute that one. You have a charismatic group of badasses put in a...
Poor Eric Roberts. If being in the shadow of your much-more-successful sister wasn’t enough, the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee has made some pretty poor...
Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers was a stroke of genius when it was released. Taking a group of British soldiers holed up in a remote house in...
I can’t say that I’m up on my Greek mythology these days, but I can say that the concept of the Siren — bluntly, a half-human...