Long before Michael Bay delivered his version of The Transformers or Guillermo del Toro would pit massive robots against kaiju in his flick Pacific Rim, producer Charles Band and director Stuart Gordon would be the first filmmakers to bring giant fighting robots off the toy shelves and into the arena of live-action, sadly, unlike those…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
One Dark Night (1982) – Review
If I learned one thing from watching 80s horror movies is that pulling a prank will most likely result in a bunch of dead teenagers. This is a cinematic trope that writer/director Tom McLoughlin embraced with his movie One Dark Night, an entry that pits a “Final Girl” against an army of the dead.
Tarzan in Manhattan (1989) – Review
By the late 1960s, while Tarzan’s adventures may have faded from the big screen he was far from ready to hang up his loin cloth, Ron Ely had made him a staple of Thursday night viewings and he had quite the splash during the Saturday morning cartoon line-up in the 1970s, but today we will…
Classic Horror films of the 1940s
The 1940s saw the continuation of the golden age of Universal Monsters, a series of films that literally laid the groundwork for the horror genre, and while iconic monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolf Man and the Mummy reigned supreme during this era, other rivals studios would launch their own thought-provoking entries that would…
Piranha (1978) – Review
A lot of Jaws rip-offs flooded cinemas during the late ’70s and earlier ’80s but Joe Dante’s aquatic gem stands as one of the best, in fact, it was so good that when Universal wanted to sue Corman’s studio it was Steven Spielberg who convinced them not to. If that doesn’t equal a good recommendation…