Killer dolls have been a popular horror mainstay ever since Talky Tina murdered Telly Savalas in that classic Twilight Zone episode, so leave it to B-movie producer Charles Band to proclaim “Hold my beer” and give us a dark and gloomy mansion that was simply chock full of tiny toy terrors with dash of gore…
Tag: fairy tale
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) – Review
Most people alive today are familiar with the Grimm fairy tales through their popular Disney incarnations – Uncle Walt having basically made a decades-long career producing animated classic based on those old tales – but in 1962, MGM studios tackled the subject matter with an interesting “biographical” approach: instead of animated versions of the Grimm’s…
The Nanny (2017) – Review
In horror films, if you hire a babysitter or nanny, there is a good chance they will turn out to be evil – whether they be a woman seeking revenge, as in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, or something more supernatural, like William Friedkin’s The Guardian – but regardless of the nature of the…
The Iron Giant: From Book to Screen
Over the years Brad Bird has become one of the more respected directors in the field of animation, even doing decent work in live action with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Tomorrowland, but once upon a time, long before all this fame and fortune, he was just a recently fired animator from Disney.
La Belle et la Bête (2014) aka Beauty and the Beast – Review
Bringing a fairy tale to life outside of an animated film is no easy task but director Christophe Gans is following in the steps of Jean Cocteau who adapted Beauty and the Beast way back in 1946, and so with today’s technology it should be much easier to accomplish… right?