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: Dylan
Posted on 05.04.10 in All Horror Films

“If you give a monkey a camera, it will go out there and shoot something” – Ron Atkins
A fitting statement from one of the featured subjects in Horror Business, a documentary on the horror film industry that has a lot of monkeys with cameras, but very few filmmakers. One doesn’t have to be part of mainstream Hollywood to be considered a director, but most of the no-talent hacks showcased within this movie …

by: Dylan
Posted on 04.05.10 in All Horror Films > Slasher > Supernatural

There’s something about killer clowns that seems to repel talent. There has been one killer-clown movie that wasn’t a complete disaster – IT – and it’s arguable whether it even constitutes a “movie” as it really was a miniseries. The rest have been S.I.C.K or Urban Massacre or Fear of Clowns and if you have ever had to watch even a single minute of one of those, you know how agonizingly terrible …

by: Dylan
Posted on 02.21.10 in All Horror Films > Comedy > Monster > Supernatural

The biggest problem with The Mangler, based on the short story by Stephen King about a haunted laundry press, is that it’s based on the short story by Stephen King about a haunted laundry press. Stephen King has written enough books and short stories to fill a small library, many of them arguably the best modern horror-lit has to offer, few as-of-today adapted to film. That the story about an evil laundry …

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 12.17.09 in All Horror Films > Comedy > Cult/Erotic > Vampire

Japanese culture, among the various oddities that have sprung from it are game shows which consist of male contestants being whacked in the genitals and animated pornography, termed “hentai”.  They even sell toilet paper with short horror stories printed on it for god knows what reason. This utterly insane culture extends into their films as well, and one doesn’t have to look any further than “Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl” for an …

by: Dylan
Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Supernatural > Thriller/Suspense

“Mirrors” was doomed for terrible critical reviews from the start. Horror never scores big with film critics; in fact I can’t remember the last horror film that got more positive reviews than negative. If the film in question is a remake as well, especially of a foreign movie, it’s almost destined for critical failure. There’s a reason for that: most horror remakes are utter garbage and are solely created so studios can …

by: Dylan
Posted on 11.10.09 in All Horror Films > Torture

Uwe Boll is one of the most hated film directors of all time, due in part to his terrible horror-themed adaptations of second rate video games. He’s ranked up there alongside Ed Wood in most people’s books, but unlike Ed Wood, whose films seemed to get abysmally worse, Boll’s films are progressively getting better. His directing chops seem to get better with each new film. Postal was better than In the Name …

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 …