by: Dylan
Posted on 06.02.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Thriller/Suspense

Never before has a security personnel had this much unrestrained power. Jericho Cane – a former cop now working in private security – storms through End of Days with less check and balances than the president, entering crime scenes, stealing and hiding evidence from the police and conducting his own investigation of key witnesses without ever more than a cursory comment from the deputy.  At the start of a film, Cane hangs …

by: Shaun Anderson
Posted on 05.01.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Thriller/Suspense

Italian journeyman filmmaker Antonio Margheriti certainly knows how to churn out a decent genre B movie. Like the majority of directors working in popular Italian cinema during the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s Margheriti (who often used the nom de plume Anthony M. Dawson) had a high degree of skill in switching genres. He’s pretty much done it all – from Mario Bava inspired gothic horror like Horror Castle (1963) and Castle of …

by: Obaid K
Posted on 04.01.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Thriller/Suspense > Zombie

I still remember my first time on a rollercoaster. It was at a Six Flags near Chicago in 2000 and the ride was called “Shockwave”. The monstrous blue coils near the entrance (forming a total of seven inversions) were scary enough from the car park, but none of the heckling from my cousins or the grainy rollercoaster videos I’d seen could have prepared me for what I was in for. I screamed …

by: Obaid K
Posted on 03.28.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Monster > Sci-Fi > Thriller/Suspense

You know exactly what you’re going to get with this movie just by looking at the DVD cover, but the cheesy title belies the fact that Alien Raiders is a pretty decent low-budget monster flick. It has no pretensions about what it’s trying to accomplish and succeeds at providing the basics for a nice little movie that promises to entertain even if it does little else.
Discerning viewers will find plenty of flaws …

by: Shaun Anderson
Posted on 02.15.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Thriller/Suspense

Of all of the beasts and creatures to feature in the durable sub-genre of the revolt of nature horror film the crocodile by far is the most common. This is because the crocodile is not really revolting against mankind, but instead continuing its centuries old struggle against its human oppressor. Therefore these types of films immediately have a resonance and realism that killer insects, spiders, and sundry household pets lack. Despite having …

by: Obaid K
Posted on 02.13.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Sci-Fi > Science Fiction

Every once in a while we’re lucky enough to see a movie that’s so strangely unique it catches us off-guard. Sometimes these original flourishes turn out to be gimmicks and, upon multiple viewings, we recognize the film’s shortcomings – plot holes, weak character development or a lack of depth.
District 9 is definitely unique, has its share of flashy action sequences and is not without problems but it’s far from shallow or gimmicky. …

by: Letitia
Posted on 02.07.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Thriller/Suspense

The French-language film Ils (Them), directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, is one of the least original yet most tense and frightening movies I’ve seen in years. Although its bag of tricks is a well-worn one (think The Strangers, Funny Games, or any other movie that involves a couple being pointlessly terrorized by unseen or unknown enemies), and although the characters sometimes do the very dense things that characters in horror …

by: sprouticus
Posted on 01.01.10 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Sci-Fi

If you ever want to see what sheer stupidity looks like on celluloid, look no further than Neil Marshall’s latest outing Doomsday. After a promising start with his impressive debut Dog Soldiers and the claustrophobic spelunking nightmare The Descent, I had high hopes for his venture into apocalyptic action territory. Unfortunately, Doomsday is an jumbled mess of a film that is as schizophrenic as they come. It has no clue what it wants to be and …

by: Dylan
Posted on 12.23.09 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films > Mystery > Psychological Thriller > Thriller/Suspense

“The Game” is a decent thriller derailed by – and I say this without the slightest bit of exaggeration or hyperbole – the absolute all-time worst ending to a film I’ve ever witnessed in my entire lifetime of film viewing. The finale is so at odds with the prior proceedings, so ridiculously ludicrous within the context of any film (but particularly one that bills itself as a ‘psychological thriller’), that it’s hard …

by: Dylan
Posted on 11.10.09 in Action/Adventure > All Horror Films

After viewing “Still Life”, a short film directed by Jon Knautz, I was genuinely excited for his feature film debut, “Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer”. “Still Life” perfectly captured the essence and feel of a “The Twilight Zone” episode and I was eager to see what Knautz could do when taking on the horror-comedy genre. The campy nature of the title and promotional materials suggested something along the lines of “Evil Dead” or …