When it comes to horror movies, nothing beats a good ghost story. Sure, axe-wielding psychos and limb-rendering monsters can be fun, but I’d take a creaking haunted house over those any day of the week. For me, the quintessential examples of this specific horror genre are Robert Wise’s 1963 film The Haunting — a film…
Category: Reviews
Flood (1976) – Review
Movies such as The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure marked Irwin as “The Master of Disaster” with these big-budgeted disaster theatrical releases, but he also brought some of his movie mayhem to the small screen, case in point, his 1976 made-for-television movie Flood. Of course, the problem with taking the disaster genre to the…
The Predator (2018) – Review
According to this film, on the Predator home world, they apparently have their own form of Greenpeace — am I getting that right, is that what this film is about? With this latest outing in the Predator franchise, action comedy director Shane Black does his best to cram five different movies into one – with…
Deluge (1933) – Review
Presumed lost for years, the 1933 film Deluge, released by RKO Pictures, but produced by a small company called Admiral Productions Inc, is a film that could be argued as to be one of Hollywood’s earliest true disaster films, preceding such films as The Last Days of Pompeii (1935), and the big earthquake movie San…
City on Fire (1979) – Review
By the late 70s, the golden age of the disaster film was coming to a close – Irwin Allen’s 1980 commercial bomb When Time Ran Out would be the nail in that particular coffin – but in 1979, a joint American/Canadian venture released a movie about an entire city ablaze, a film called City on…