Blending horror and comedy has always been a tricky thing – too often the comedy can undercut the horror – but in 1998, writer/director Stephen Sommers released Deep Rising, which was not only a horror/comedy but an action movie as well. Added to the mix was a monster that would be 95% CGI – at…
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Overlord (2018) – Review
Genre mash-ups can be a lot of fun, and when it’s horror with another genre, the results can be quite surprising – horror-comedy being one of the more prevalent of these – but one horror combo that doesn’t get a lot of love is the horror/war movie mash-up, which is why Overlord is such a…
Supergirl (1984) – Review
It was in the year 1984 that we saw Supergirl’s first appearance outside the pages of DC comics, which was pretty sad considering her cousin Superman had been appearing in serials, cartoons, television shows and movies dating as far back as the 1940s. Yet it wasn’t until the Christopher Reeve movies started to show diminishing…
Lake Placid: Legacy (2018) – Review
If you can make a six-film franchise out of the comedy classic Tremors – a movie about burrowing monsters terrorizing a small town in Nevada – then why can’t a series about giant man-eating crocodiles terrorizing people in Maine work, too? One could, of course, argue the point that neither Tremors nor the original Lake…
Impulse: Season One (2018) – Review
In 2008, director Doug Liman took Steven Gould’s YA science fiction novel Jumper to the big screen – while completely abandoning everything that made the book so popular – now ten years later we find Liman back with another run out in the universe of Jumper, only this time as a web series for YouTube Premium….