The Omen: Collector’s Edition
June 30, 2006
The 1970s was a great decade for horror movies. You had independent films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Dawn of the Dead (1979) and mainstream Hollywood fare like The Exorcist (1973). Along with Rosemary’s Baby (1968), this film dealt...
Equinox
June 23, 2006
For anyone who has spent countless Sunday afternoons watching B-horror movies featuring the marvelous stop-motion animated creations by Ray Harryhausen on the Creature Double Feature, Equinox (1970) is a movie made for you. Quite simply, as Forrest J....
Underworld: Evolution
June 7, 2006
The first Underworld movie (2003) was a modest box office hit but enough, apparently, to spawn a sequel (2006) that continues the war that rages between vampires and werewolves. Director Len Wiseman pillaged visuals from both The Matrix and The Crow movies...
Cemetery Man
June 5, 2006
Michele Soavi got his start as an actor with small roles in Italian horror films like Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) and then worked in various capacities (actor, screenwriter and assistant) on five of Joe D’Amato’s movies. Soavi went...
The Fly: The Ultimate Collector’s Edition
May 17, 2006
Should Man play God, should we attempt to better the world with radical inventions, should we push scientific know-how to its limits and should we test it, on ourselves? The Fly movies would suggest that, no – we don’t, because when it goes wrong,...
It Waits
May 11, 2006
It’s the classic monster movie set-up: an ancient creature is awakened when a group of young people blast an opening in the cave that it inhabits. Naturally, it isn’t too thrilled at being disturbed and goes on a rampage in the surrounding forest....
Pulse
March 1, 2006
The recent wave of Japanese horror films in the past five years or so seem to have been influenced in some way by the use of electricity and the manipulation of electronic images for horrific effect in David Lynch’s films, Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With...
Dark Water
February 24, 2006
Jennifer Connelly joins the club of A-list actresses who are trying their hand at the horror genre. Of course, fans of her work should remember the Dario Argento film, Phenomena (1985), she did as a child so she is certainly no stranger to the genre or...
Land of the Dead
February 21, 2006
There’s a certain irony that after all the recent homages (Shaun of the Dead) and remakes (Dawn of the Dead) of George Romero’s iconic zombie movies, the man himself was inspired to get back in the director’s chair once again for Land...
Dark Shadows
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...