What can you bring to the seventh film in a franchise that fans haven’t seen before? This was the problem facing the producers of the latest Tremors movie, a series that had been direct-to-video since practically the beginning, and their solution was “Let’s try and rip-off The Most Dangerous Game only instead of unsuspecting humans…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Orca (1977) – Review
With the success of Steven Spielberg’s Summer Blockbuster Jaws, many a film producer scrambled to cash in on that hit with various rip-offs and famed Italian filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis wasn’t going to miss his shot at this burgeoning subgenre, so he turned to his producer friend Luciano Vincenzoni and requested that he “Find a…
Suspiria (1977) – Review
When one looks over the horror genre it’s impossible to ignore the influence that the Italian Giallo subgenre had on the North American film industry, good or bad, because even though those films were similar to American slasher films in the area of violence and exploitation they were often more lush and colourful than what…
Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015) – Review
Over a decade after the release of Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, which one has to admit is quite the dry spell in the world of direct-to-video movies, Universal Studios decided that after such a long hiatus a re-launch of the franchise was the best option and to say their reasoning was sound is, at…
Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob (2021) – Review
The Scooby gang has encountered all sorts of foes over the years, from men in masks posing as monsters to honest to goodness zombies and witches, but in The Sword and the Scoob, our heroes may be facing a magical menace that even their crime-solving skills can’t solve. Given the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s…