Vampyr: Criterion Collection
July 30, 2008
Made in 1930 during the early days of sound, Vampyr (1932) was based on In A Glass Darkly, a collection of supernatural stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and filmed in three languages (English, French and German) by Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film exists...
The Ruins: Unrated
July 21, 2008
The Ruins (2008) is the latest gruesome horror film with a xenophobic streak in the tradition of Hostel (2005) and Turistas (2006). Take a group of young, attractive American tourists, drop them into a strange, inhospitable country and punish them for...
Night of the Living Dead: 40th Anniversary Edition
May 27, 2008
In recognition of its 40th anniversary, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) has been given the special edition treatment on DVD…again. Since entering the public domain, everybody and his brother has released this film on home video...
Diary of the Dead
May 19, 2008
After taking his informal series of zombie films to their logical conclusion with Land of the Dead (2005), George A. Romero has come full circle by returning to his low-budget, guerrilla-style filmmaking. With Diary of the Dead (2007), he has started...
Cloverfield
April 18, 2008
Cloverfield was the first media sensation of 2008 and an excellent case study in canny marketing. A teaser trailer appeared in theaters months ahead and featured a few, brief, tantalizing scenes of chaos in Manhattan with no mention of a title or who...
The Mist: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
April 14, 2008
Filmmaker Frank Darabont has a real affinity for Stephen King’s stories having previously adapted two of the author’s non-horror tales (The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile) and with his latest film he tackles another King story, The Mist (2007),...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Special Edition
April 14, 2008
An R rated musical about a vengeful barber who kills his victims only to serve them up as meat pies must’ve made the studio a little nervous to bankroll a big budget adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of...
Halloween: Unrated Director’s Cut
December 18, 2007
Remaking a classic horror film is almost never a good idea. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Dawn of the Dead (2004) and The Hitcher (2007) are examples of recent remakes that are inferior shadows of their original selves. And so it came with great...
Planet Terror: Extended and Unrated
October 19, 2007
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino are hardcore film buffs that grew up to become very successful filmmakers and friends who have collaborated on several projects over the years. Recently, they decided to indulge their love of Grindhouse movies of...
Primeval
June 12, 2007
There’s something about a horror film that is based on an actual incident that makes it much more terrifying because in the back of your mind you’re thinking, some part of this actually happened – The Exorcist (1973), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre...
