Have you ever seen a movie that blended the buddy cop, zombie, comedy action horror genres all together? Could you believe such a thing even exists? Well, they did, back in the 80 cop films were all the rage and buddy comedies even more so but it took writer Terry Black and director Mark Goldblatt…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Amityville 3-D (1983) – Review
The tagline to this movie was “Warning: In this movie, you are the victim,” having now sat through this film I certainly feel victimized, of course, that tagline was actually referring to the fact that the film was released in 3D, which in the 80s was almost a requirement for third installments of a horror…
Amityville II: The Possession (1982) – Review
When the film The Amityville Horror was released in 1979 it was, at the time, the most successful independent film ever released so a sequel following the continuation of the horror plaguing the Lutz family would seem to be a given, but that was not to be, what we got instead was a prequel based…
The Amityville Horror (1979) – Review
“The events of this movie are based on misleading information, when it’s not just outright bullshit, and is basically a cinematic hoax.” Sadly, this was not the disclaimer found at the start of American International Pictures’ The Amityville Horror, but it should have been, as this “based on true events” movie is more fiction than…
Grizzly II: Revenge (1983) – Review
When it comes to sequels the time between the original and the following chapter often varies, from a quick cash-grab release to an entry that comes out many years later to cash in on its nostalgic value, in the case of Grizzly, which was released in 1976 as a cash in on the Jaws craze,…