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...
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...