To Live and Die in L.A.
September 30, 2002
To Live and Die in L.A. was a film ahead of its time. When it was released in 1985, it failed to connect with a mainstream audience that was put off by its amoral, unlikable characters and downbeat, nihilistic ending. What did people expect from the same...
Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara)
August 11, 2002
Hideo ‘Ring’ Nakata continues his Japanese horror masterclass with Dark Water, a spine-tingling tale concerning a mother and daughter living in a haunted apartment. After the success of the first two Ring movies, director Nakata returns to...
The Butterfly Effect
April 10, 2002
“The Butterfly Effect is a gripping, supernatural thriller that taps into the turbulent nature of past, present and future”, claim the producers. Lies! Let’s rephrase it more accurately: “The Butterfly Effect is a stupid supernatural...
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...
Se7en
January 5, 2002
I was sitting in MacDonalds with some friends not too long ago munching on my Big Mac and fries when a hugely obese man passes us. We all saw him, you can’t not see a hugely obese man walking past your table, but it didn’t stop us from finishing...
JFK (Director’s Cut Two-Disc Special Edition)
December 6, 2001
They say that the third time’s the charm and this certainly applies to the latest DVD version of Oliver Stone’s film, JFK (1991). Previous incarnations included a movie-only edition spread over two sides of a single disc and an extras-packed two DVD...
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 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...
