When it comes to alien visitors the Earth does seem to attract a lot of the “evil invader” types because for every E.T. The Extraterrestrial or Starman we get a half-dozen aliens who have “regarded this Earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us” but in 1951 director Robert…
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Checkered Ninja 2 (2021) – Review
Stories about killer dolls are certainly nothing new to Hollywood and are even known to have sparked a franchise or two, but in 2018 Norway entered the fray with Checkered Ninja an animated horror film by director Thorbjørn Christoffersen who gave us a movie that was quite a bit left of center in the world…
Grizzly (1976) – Review
Following the success of Spielberg’s summer blockbuster Jaws, the cinema was quickly flooded with killer shark movies but one of the most blatant rip-offs didn’t involve a shark or even take place in the water as this movie dealt with “18 feet of gut-wrenching, man-eating terror!” and by that I mean William Girdler’s Grizzly, a…
The Stuff (1985) – Review
Eating healthy has been an issue facing many of us over the years, with friends decrying “If you keep eating like that you are gonna die” but in Larry Cohen’s 1985 horror film The Stuff we get the idea that eating something that is bad for you being taken to a whole new level in…
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Review
When it comes to cinematic depictions of literary characters Dracula is up there with Sherlock Holmes when it comes to the number of times he has been brought to the big screen, from F.W. Murnau’s silent masterpiece Nosferatu to Bela Lugosi in 1931’s Dracula, Christoper Lee’s run in the Hammer Films and John Badham’s more…