It’s fair to say that a filmmaker who sits down to make a horror film may have the slight hope that his little offering will spawn a franchise like Friday the 13th or, to a lesser extent, even something like The Howling franchise, but the 1997 release of the horror film Jack Frost didn’t quite…
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Jack Frost (1997) – Review
It should be made clear that at no point, in this movie, does Michael Keaton come back to life as a snowman to reconnect with his son, that is a completely different movie, though horrifying in its own right, while the film we will be looking at today is a low-budget slasher flick that came…
Ray Harryhausen: The Titan of Special Effects
Today with but a few keystrokes on a computer you can conjurer up anything that the mind could possibly imagine yet many of these modern creations pale in comparison to the practical special effects orchestrated decades earlier by a talented group of effects artists who pioneered the field of special effects, and the king of…
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) – Review
With this entry, special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen and fellow producer Charles H. Schneer would conclude their Sinbad trilogy, following the previous successful entries of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, but with Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger lightning was not going to strike a third time as…
Dead & Buried (1981) – Review
There are certain places best left off any tourism agenda, simply for safeties sake, such as a trip to the island of Summerisle, because even with Britt Ekland dancing nude it is still not worth the risk, then there is the issue of booking a room at The Shining’s Overlook Hotel, where the adage “All…