Candyman
December 7, 2004
Based on Clive Barker’s short story, “The Forbidden,” Candyman (1992) is one of the first horror films to open acknowledge and use urban legends as the basis for its story. When most people think of such things the first ones that come to mind are...
Pitch Black Special Edition
December 5, 2004
One of the best low-budget sci-fi films of its time is coming to special edition DVD. Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel as the mysterious rouge character Richard. B. Riddick finally gets the treatment it so deserved. Pitch Black was a surprising success...
Decoys
November 11, 2004
Decoys is the story of one young man’s discovery of a female alien race that has infiltrated his University campus. Luke Callahan is the young man in question, and he is charmed when two busty blondes flirt with him in his dorm’s laundry room....
Hellboy
March 27, 2004
The success of X-Men (2000) and Spider-Man (2002) has opened the door for a new wave a comic book adaptations. In the past, studios have played it safe and only green-lighted adaptations of mainstream comic books with large followings. However, this has...
Gothika
March 17, 2004
Mathieu Kassovitz is probably better known as an actor than a director, and most notably for his performance as Nino Quincampoix in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Amelie’. However, he has an impressive back-catalogue of films under his directorial belt,...
Love Object
February 18, 2004
‘Kenneth was in love from the minute he took Nikki out of her box. Anatomically correct, complete with instructions and 100% lifelike silicone, she was exactly as he had ordered. With his newfound love, Kenneth’s once desolate and lonely life...
The Devil’s Backbone (El Espinazo del diablo)
December 21, 2003
Chronos (1993) was Guillermo del Toro’s auspicious feature film debut and it established him as an up-and-coming horror film auteur. Hollywood came calling and he made Mimic (1997), a compromised vision that still had del Toro’s stylistic flair but...
Underworld: The Unrated Extended Cut
December 21, 2003
Underworld (2003) is a comic book movie in search of a comic book. It is not actually adapted from an existing one but it looks and sounds like it could be and, more obviously, influenced by other movies. Like many big budget studio offerings, it is written...
The Eye (Jian gui)
November 25, 2003
Japanese cinema is fast becoming the benchmark for modern horror, what with The Ring movies and this little oddity from the directors of the ultra violent assassin thriller Bangkok Dangerous. The Eye, though perhaps not quite on the same level after close...
The Ring
November 23, 2003
If you’ve seen the Japanese original, you might automatically turn your nose up at the mere hint of a Hollywood remake, but take a step back and judge this baby on its own terms. A huge box office hit in America last year, The Ring is A) genuinely...
