Ninjas vs. Vampires–movie review

   You know what, there are movies that I get to review that are hard to take seriously. Too often they are poorly made, have little imagination, and are often just space filler at video stores. I offer this though, NvsV is a rare exception that while not a movie I’d go out looking for… Continue reading Ninjas vs. Vampires–movie review

CROPSEY–movie review

   It is a delicate bit of balancing that comes with making a documentary film. You have to serve the truth, the story, and the audience and all of it at once. As exciting as the truth is it is exciting often because of its subtlety, because of its delicacy, two things that films often… Continue reading CROPSEY–movie review

Fright Flick – movie review

Fright Flick - movie review   It really is as I and a thousand other critics have said - if there is something hard to do it is the horror comedy. Filmmakers seem to do one element right and in so doing neglect the other and there are very, very few films that bridge the… Continue reading Fright Flick – movie review

Unthinkable – movie review

Unthinkable – review For a good many years the United States has lived beneath the shadow of What If, a shadow that became all the longer after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This is a specter that has haunted the arts and media heavily but rarely do we get past the jingoism of… Continue reading Unthinkable – movie review

A Serbian Film – review

A Serbian Film – review Friends, there are some things you see that you can’t un-see. Movies you seek out which you can’t really explain why but which you need to see. For us horror fans there are a lot of movies like that. Horror movies lay on the borderlands of the film genre, ranging… Continue reading A Serbian Film – review

Rise of the Scarecrows – review

As a filmgoer and a reviewer it is rare, oh so rare, to find a film that speaks to the beauty of cinema and to the existential loneliness found in the soul of the philosopher who gazes into the well of forever and returns to tell the rest of the world what they have seen.… Continue reading Rise of the Scarecrows – review

Red Sands – review

The heck of the thing with Genie's (or Djinn if you wanna be correct about things) is that no one seems to get the poor fella's right. I mean, the closest that I can think of is maybe The Wishmaster, which, while not a good film or series, does do right by them, sorta. I… Continue reading Red Sands – review

Autopsy of the Dead – review

If there is a subject that should be rife with stories and ideal for a documentary, it should be Night of the Living Dead. This is single-handedly the most influential and important horror film made. Argue if you want to, that’s fine, but genre and sub-genre alike were born of this seed, as were the… Continue reading Autopsy of the Dead – review

Paranormal Entity – review

Oh dear, oh dear. The worst thing you can say about any movie that breaks away from the pack and tries to do something a little different is that if it’s at all successful it is immediately on the block to be mocked, or ripped, or both. Such is the case with Paranormal Activity, a… Continue reading Paranormal Entity – review

Someone’s Knocking At Your Door – review

You walk into a movie with a certain expectation when you see it advertised as The Most Depraved Film of the 21st Century. I mean, you know, you get your hopes up a little just as you are dreading what you’ll see. Alas, I have already seen films far more disturbing and weird, but, well,… Continue reading Someone’s Knocking At Your Door – review

Hanger – movie review

Wow, some days it just doesn’t pay to be a movie reviewer (not that it pays per se, but whatever) because brother, some days you just can’t win. I have said it before, and say it again – I will always admire anyone brave and foolish enough to try to do anything in the arts… Continue reading Hanger – movie review

The Entity – review

So I have been watching movies for a while now, as you may have guessed, but sometimes there will still come a movie that just flips my lid and blows my wig back. Sometimes there is a movie so ridiculous that I cannot help but stand up and applaud. My friends, The Entity is just… Continue reading The Entity – review

Case 39 – review

If you are lucky, very, very lucky, you will not have this film ruined for you. I was lucky enough to go into the film pretty ignorant of what was to come and wow, what a fun surprise. I will say this – if you thought you knew what sort of films Renee Zellweger was… Continue reading Case 39 – review