Onibaba
March 21, 2002
Onibaba (1964) is a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of a war raging between two clans in Medieval Japan. The neglected crops have turned to weeds which forces peasants to become scavengers. Two women-a mother (Otowa) and her daughter-in-law...
The Eye (Jian gui)
February 22, 2002
In recent years, Asian horror films have enjoyed incredible popularity in the international market. Success stories like the notorious The Ring (1998) and Battle Royale (2000) have opened the floodgates for a whole new wave of movies for the world to...
Jeepers Creepers 2
December 6, 2001
The Creeper is back and this time he’s hungry enough to eat an entire schoolbus full of kids. The first Jeepers Creepers divided audiences. The first half was genuinely creepy, harking back to the straightforward chillers of the 70s. Unfortunately...
Darkness
December 3, 2001
Despite being snapped up by Dimension Films in America, this Spanish horror has yet to see the light of day, possibly due to its muddled screenplay and studio executives with cold feet. But letting it languish in limbo like this means it may never find...
Darkness Falls
February 2, 2001
As horror films become more and more mainstream and cool again the tendency for them to go too far and become tepid and has become all too frequent. Horror is the new Action Thriller, the sort that used to star Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd plodding...
