When is a film an homage and when is it a blatant rip-off? This is a question most viewers will be pondering when viewing director/writer Alec Gillis and producer Tom Woodruff Jr.’s independently funded film Harbinger Down.
Take the kids from E.T. The Extraterrestrial, give one of them the sister from Pretty in Pink, have one of them abducted by the Beast from Poltergeist, and then put them all in the vicinity of the government facility from…
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The 70s were a time of terrible fashions, the beginning of Disco, and exploitation films that came and went at the local Drive-In with haunting regularity. Good or bad teen-agers flocked to these films in droves.
Creepy dolls in the horror genre is nothing new; from The Twilight Zone’s “Living Doll” episode to The Conjuring’s lame spin-off Annabelle we’ve been subjected to countless iteration of the scary doll motif. In the film The Boy takes the…
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If a ghost goes boo in a forest does anybody care? Hollywood has made several remakes of various Japanese horror films over the years, but surprisingly enough this movie, though it takes place in Japan, is not an American remake…
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When one thinks of a man putting on a strange mask, one that turns him into a dangerous Mr. Hyde like character, most will immediately think of the Jim Carrey movie or the comic it was based on, but Canadian…
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The mad scientist is truly one of the most beloved tropes of early science fiction stories, and I particular love the whole “brain in a jar” subgenre. Now the story that really started all this was the novel Donavan’s Brain…
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It’s no secret that Vin Diesel is a fan of the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons, which is seriously cool, so it’s no surprise to learn that Mister Diesel would produce a movie based on one of his D&D…
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There are not too many films that have a cannibal as a protagonist, and this is just one thing that set’s writer/director Jason Krawczyk’s He Never Died apart from other horror films. Actually calling this a horror film is way…
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“This morning I shot my wife and child with a nail gun.” This line is from the film’s main protagonist and pretty much sets the tone for brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner’s Australian zombie movie Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead….
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