Horror Advice: If you notice that a younger sibling has an imaginary friend — one they talk to incessantly — there is a good chance that this supposedly imaginary friend is actually a vengeful spirit out to destroy your family, and you should be calling the local priest. Adapted from the book by Mary Downing Hahn, “Wait…
Category: Reviews
Clue (1985) – Review
People today take the idea of a movie being based on a video game as something almost commonplace – even goofy-ass games like Rampage get adaptations – but back in the mid-80s, producers John Landis and Debra Hill wanted to make a movie based on a board game – a game that didn’t even have…
Night of the Lepus (1972) – Review
Rabbits, nature’s most vicious killing machine, furred beasts that mercilessly stalk and devour their prey — or at least that is what MGM Studios wished audiences to believe when they released Night of the Lepus back in 1972. Based on Australian author Russell Braddon’s book The Year of the Angry Rabbit – a political satire…
Blue Thunder (1983) – Review
With the year of George Orwell’s 1984 looming on the near horizon it was not at all surprising that Hollywood would make a film where corrupt American government officials were seen developing a system that could not only wage war on the American populace, but spy on them as well. Thus in 1983 Columbia Pictures,…
The Meg (2018) – Review
When making a killer shark movie there is one thing a filmmaker must first come to grips with — that you will not be making a film better than Spielberg’s Jaws; it’s just not going to happen, and with the release of Warner Brothers summer flick The Meg, it’s clear that director Jon Turteltaub understands…