True Blood‘s seventh season premiere kinda bored me, which was surprising considering I expected the show to bust out all the stops right out of the gate – this being the final season, and all. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of a momentum pick-up on this past Sunday night’s episode, which I didn’t get the chance …
In this new series of short, sharp reviews I’m going to take a look at the horror movies that present Britain in a dark and disturbing way. These are the films that have no desire to show you my ‘green and pleasant land’, they just want to spray it red. Danny Boyle’s visually stunning masterpiece …
A die-hard life-long horror and science-fiction buff, the late Forrest J. “Forry” Ackerman was in many ways the kind of fan that every person who writes about genre movies – myself included – aspires to be. Starting the iconic magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland in the late 1950s, Ackerman became a leading voice in the …
Not only is it widely considered the worst installment in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, but so too is The Next Generation widely considered to be one of the very worst horror sequels of all time. And I can’t really say I disagree, on either count. It’s not very good. But is Texas Chainsaw Massacre: …
In this new series of short, sharp reviews I’m going to take a look at the horror movies that present Britain in a dark and disturbing way. These are the films that have no desire to show you my ‘green and pleasant land’, they just want to spray it red. Hollywood has always enjoyed making …
As much as I dig it when home video companies give slick new releases to old favorites that we all know and love, I dig it even more when they give that special treatment to lost films from the past, which many of us have never seen or even heard of. Such is the case …
In this new series of short, sharp reviews I’m going to take a look at the horror movies that present Britain in a dark and disturbing way. These are the films that have no desire to show you my ‘green and pleasant land’, they just want to spray it red. The horror to be found …
A family is terrorized in their remote home by a band of intruders, who just so happen to be wearing some pretty creepy masks. Not only is that the general premise of notable recent films like You’re Next and The Strangers, but it’s also more or less the set-up for every other home invasion film …
Once upon a time, many moons ago, I hit pay dirt over on eBay, scoring myself a massive lot of horror VHS tapes. As I recall, a list of the films was not included with the auction, as the seller instead decided to show off a few pictures and leave a little bit of that …
It takes a lot to genuinely frighten me these days when it comes to horror movies, but I must admit I’m still susceptible to feeling very unnerved when it comes to prolonged death and torture scenes in horror. My mind places me in the victims situation and I automatically start considering how I might act …
