Dark Shadows: The Revival
February 20, 2006
While the original Dark Shadows in the late 1960s was very campy, the show’s creator, Dan Curtis, decided to make the ‘90s incarnation a more serious take in the Hammer horror tradition. He is the godfather of TV horror with an impressive resume that...
The Skeleton Key
February 13, 2006
Those residents of New Orleans are really having a tough time. As if the recent hurricane disaster wasn’t bad enough, Hollywood has always dismissed the American south as a breeding ground for racism or fanatical voodoo witch-doctors. The Skeleton...
House of Wax
February 10, 2006
It is a testimony to the 1953 version of House of Wax that it works just as well in 3D as it does without that gimmick. This is due in large part to the presence of Vincent Price and Andre De Toth’s direction that gives the film a certain spark of excitement...
Dracula A.D. 1972
February 7, 2006
After the success of Count Yorga, Vampire (1970), Hammer Studios decided to revive the Dracula mythos that had been so successful for them in the past by attempting to update the Count by transporting him into the swinging London of 1970s. Dracula A.D....
Land of the Dead: Unrated Director’s Cut
February 7, 2006
Recent years have seen a resurgence in the zombie film with the good (28 Days Later), the bad (Resident Evil) and the funny (Shaun of the Dead), but all of them pale in comparison to George A. Romero’s trilogy of zombie films. The first two have been...
The Call of Cthulhu
February 6, 2006
In the past, adaptations of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories have been downright awful (The Dunwich Horror) or faithful in spirit only (Dagon). Some of the best efforts (In the Mouth of Madness) have been more homages to his fiction than...
American Gothic: The Complete Series
February 6, 2006
American Gothic was the victim of lousy timing. When it debuted on network TV in 1995, it arrived too late to ride on the coattails of Twin Peaks’ success and too early to ride the wave of popularity of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel....
Alone in the Dark
February 4, 2006
Christian Slater stars as a mysterious agent on the trail of ancient demons in this latest video game adaptation. We tend to criticise movies these days for being vacuous, poorly written fluff, but there’s a new director on the block that makes...
Tales from the Crypt: Season 1
January 31, 2006
In the late ’80 and early ‘90s HBO backed an attempt to bring back the famous E.C. comic book Tales from the Crypt in the form of a half hour anthology with a powerhouse group of filmmakers behind the camera that included the likes of Walter Hill,...
Godzilla: Criterion Collection
January 30, 2006
Godzilla is more than just some guy in a cheesy rubber suit terrorizing badly dubbed Japanese actors and stomping miniature cities. The original film, made in 1954, is actually a tragedy of epic proportions, a potent warning of an escalating nuclear arms...
