The globetrotting Scooby gang are no strangers to the Far East; they’ve faced the Dragon Beast in the episode “The Demon of the Dugout,” from the Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo run, and poor Shaggy became a 30-Foot Shaggy during an episode of What’s New, Scooby-Doo? titled, “Big Appetite in Little Tokyo.” But their best Japanese adventure was…
Leprechaun Returns (2018) – Review
What do you do if the villain of your franchise has hit a critical mass level of desperation that lands him in space? In the Friday the 13th movie series, after Jason got his “In Space” entry, the next film teamed him up with a fellow horror icon Freddy Krueger, but when that failed to…
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King (2008) – Review
Back in the late 90s, we were treated to several Scooby-Doo movies where the fantastical creatures were actually real — starting with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and ending with Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase — but after those films, the formula returned to the typical “Dudes in Masks” type of mysteries, that is until the…
Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) – Review
A horror movie set in an elite boarding school is certainly nothing new — Dario Argento’s Suspiria and its 2018 remake being primary examples of this — but taking that horror setting and then blending it with a comedy element is a nice little twist, and casting the likes of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost…
Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007) – Review
When it comes to creatures in the Scooby-Doo universe, the most common has to be the snow monster, having shown up in one form or another at least a half-dozen times, whether it be the Yeti from the episode, “That’s Snow Ghost” in the original series, or the snow monster Mister Roundy from the episode,…