Darkness: Unrated Version
October 5, 2005
Ever since the success of Re-Animator (1985) launched his career as a horror film producer, Brian Yuzna has remained independent and to keep it that way he’s gone from making his movies in the United States to Europe where it costs less. His latest...
Exorcist: The Beginning
September 22, 2005
The road to Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) seeing the light of day has been a rocky one to say the least. Director Paul Schrader was originally hired to helm the project but when the head of the studio didn’t like the filmmaker had done he was fired...
The Grudge
August 19, 2005
A lot was riding on Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new movie, The Grudge (2004). If it failed at the box office she could be faced with the prospect of more Scooby Doo sequels while its success could lead to bigger and better things. After all, it was her...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 5
July 7, 2005
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has always been a dark show. However, the arrival of Season Five saw the series take an even darker turn as two major characters died and a seemingly unstoppable villain threatened to destroy Sunnydale and the rest of the world....
The Village
July 4, 2005
The Village (2004) is an evolution, of sorts, for the M. Night Shyamalan formula. Instead of focusing on one protagonist as he has done in his previous films, he has shifted the focus to an ensemble drama. It is also his first period drama in which the...
Shaun of the Dead
June 27, 2005
Whenever the horror genre becomes bloated with safe, CGI-heavy Hollywood product, a small, independent feature comes from seemingly out of nowhere to shake things up. Shaun of the Dead (2004) is just that film. Riding the recently successful, wave of...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 7
June 14, 2005
The last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a bittersweet affair. Sarah Michelle Gellar made it known that she had grown tired of playing Buffy and wanted to move on—presumably to motion pictures (which is exactly what she did with Scooby Doo 2...
Dawn of the Dead: Director’s Cut
May 29, 2005
There are two ends of the scale when it comes to Hollywood remakes. There’s the nonsensical and pointless (Psycho 1998,) and there’s the smart re-imaging for a modern audience (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003). Nearly twenty-five years after...
Secret Window
May 23, 2005
Somewhere over the last eighteen months Johnny Depp has risen from kooky character actor to a bone fide national treasure, even securing himself a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Pirates Of The Caribbean. His follow up to that film, Secret Window, reaffirms...
Friday the 13th: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan
April 30, 2005
It sure is hard to keep a good movie monster down. Freddy vs. Jason (2003) proved that audiences were still interested in Mrs. Voorhees’ indestructible son. With eleven installments under his belt, Jason has proven to be one of the most prolific and...
