How does one go about making a Venom movie without even mentioning the name Spider-Man? This was the challenge Sony Pictures set for the three screenwriters that were tasked to salvage a character the studio had previously ruined in the…
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Setting your gothic horror movie in an “old dark house” is almost a prerequisite – Robert Wise’s The Haunting and Peter Medak’s The Changeling are prime examples of this done well – but if all you have is dark halls and…
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What is reality and what is a delusion? This quandary is the heart of many psychological/horror movies, and Blumhouse Production’s Delirium (formerly known as Home) does its best to tap into that primal fear of, “If you can’t trust what…
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When it comes to horror movies, nothing beats a good ghost story. Sure, axe-wielding psychos and limb rendering monsters can be fun, but give I’d take a creaking haunted house over those any day of the week. For me, the…
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Take a high-concept idea, throw in a heaping helping of dread, and then mix it all up with some nice existential quandaries; the result of such a concoction would be the film Radius, a science fiction/thriller by Canadian directors Caroline…
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Movies such as The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure marked Irwin “The Master of Disaster” Allen as a big-budgeted disaster film artist. But he also brought some of his movie mayhem to the small screen with his 1976’s made-for-television movie…
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According to this film, on the Predator home world, they apparently have their own form of Greenpeace — am I getting that right, is that what this film is about? With this latest outing in the Predator franchise, action comedy…
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Presumed lost for years, the 1933 film Deluge, released by RKO pictures, but produced by a small company called Admiral Productions Inc, is a film that could be argued as to be one of Hollywood’s earliest true disaster films, preceding…
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By the late 70s, the golden age of the disaster film was coming to a close – Irwin Allen’s 1980 commercial bomb When Time Ran Out would be the nail in the coffin – but in 1979, a joint American/Canadian…
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In the 50s, atomic monsters or alien invaders were all the rage – from giant tarantulas to flying saucers – but despite their inability to destroy buildings, one other science fiction staple overshadowed them all, and that would be that…
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