From Disney’s Herbie the Love Bug to John Carpenter’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine,vehicles with “minds of their” own have been a staple of Hollywood films – comedy or horror it doesn’t matter – but in 1985 we were treated to a movie that was inspired by the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk…
Tag: comedy
Dead Heat (1988) – Review
Have you ever seen a movie that blended the buddy cop, zombie, comedy action horror genres all together? Could you believe such a thing even exists? Well, they did, back in the 80 cop films were all the rage and buddy comedies even more so but it took writer Terry Black and director Mark Goldblatt…
The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) – Review
In 1982 director Wes Craven tackled the live-action adaptation of Swamp Thing, a DC comic book created by writer Len Wein and legendary artist Bernie Wrightson back in the 70s, but with a script that had only a modicum of similarities to the source material – a scientist turned into a swamp monster and a…
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010) – Review
Remaking a classic horror film is nothing new and has brought such classics as John Carpenter’s The Thing and David Cronenberg’s The Fly, but while those films were remakes of true classics of the genre the one we are looking at today is, at best, an in-name-only remake of the 1973 film The Boy Who…
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) – Review
Filmmaker Russ Meyer is known for writing and directing a series of sexploitation films throughout the late 60s and into 1970s that utilized campy humour to satirize the status quo and pop culture of the time, which he did fairly well, but when one thinks of Russ Meyer it’s hard to correlate the fact that…