The Amityville movie series is one of those franchises that just won’t give up the ghost, it doesn’t seem to matter that in the almost forty years since the original movie was released that none of them have been particularly good, or even that profitable as it’s one of those franchises that hopes that brand…
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From Hell It Came (1957) – Review
Do you remember when the tree grabbed that kid out of his bedroom in Poltergeist? Or how about the poor girl getting raped by the forest in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead? As genres go “The Killer Plant Movie” is a rather small subset of horror films – with a few notable films like Little Shop…
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) – Review
What if Thor and Hulk were roommates? That is just one of many interesting ideas that director Taika Waititi tackles in this latest chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and boy does he have fun exploring them, but of course, the biggest question answered is what exactly were Thor and Hulk doing when everyone else…
Death Note: Anime vs. Netflix
For those not in the know Death Note started out as a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, that was then adapted into an anime television series that aired between 2006 and 2007, which then led to Japanese live action movies, video games and even a musical.
Tales of Halloween (2015) – Review
Horror anthologies can be tricky things to pull off as each story has a relatively short allotted time to provide the set-up, the scares, and the punchline. George Romero’s original Creepshow way back in 1982 is probably the most notable example of how to do this right but we’ve seen some more recent attempts such…