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...
After the sh*tshow that was Muck, I have a really hard time deciding if crowdfunding is the way to go with films. Sure, the backers had...
“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” has always been relevant in life, and none moreso than in science. Ever before Dolly was first cloned...
Cheesy martial arts action flicks have always been a staple for B-movie fans. No Retreat, No Surrender, Samurai Cop, Story Of Ricky, the list goes on....
Generally speaking, the moment you get someone smoking pot in a horror movie, they end up dead. You also don’t get a frank look at mental...
With the Asian horror craze of the early to mid 2000s, I never really got into it as much as some folks. Sure, The Ring was...
For all the crap I give found footage films (and many indie films, for that matter), there are some that manage to skirt the pitfalls that...
Admittedly, I’ve never seen the appeal of tattoos. That said, living in the part of Toronto known as The Annex for the past four years has...
Some people would say that the zombie craze, much like the vampire craze, has run its course in media. I would disagree, although I know that...
I’ve never been a fan of reality television. Even when Survivor premiered all those years ago, I thought that the whole thing screamed of desperation. Speaking...
It’s been a while since Bigfoot lurched across my screen. In fact, the last film that I’d seen involving a killer Sasquatch was the very fun...
You would think that after films like A Nightmare On Elm Street and The Cell, the topic of dreams in horror would have been explored to...
There comes a point where you have to throw your hands up and scream like a madman, wondering why indie filmmakers continue to beat a dead...
Looking at the cover art for Chad Archibald’s The Drownsman, I can’t help but recall the scene in A Nightmare On Elm Street where Nancy is...
So, after being in a start-stop production for over seven years on a budget of $26 million, Forbidden Empire aka Viy is here. Based loosely on...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Ever feel like your kids are possessed by the Devil? Or other people’s kids? Well you’re in luck,...
Many horror and art fans alike were devastated to hear about H. R. Giger’s sudden death in 2014. Known for his biomechanical sculptures and paintings, the...
German director Marcus Nispel has seemingly made a career in film doing remakes/reinterpretations. While I thought that the initial outrage at his Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake...
Leave it to indie filmmakers to come up with some wacky ideas that Hollywood seems to lack. Whereas we get a Dracula origin story in Dracula...
Admittedly, I’m not up on my knowledge of crime thrillers. Then again, it’s not one of my favorite genres. But, there are films that do elicit...
The list of films that are both terrifying and tell a great story at the same time is admittedly pretty short. And if you’ve been paying...
Witchcraft and high school girls is one of those cliches that pops up every now and then in films, the most notable being Andrew Fleming’s The...