A popular holiday staple for many families is John Hughs’s Christmas comedy Home Alone, where a young boy must defend his home from intruders, but while that film has become a holiday classic and is beloved by many, it was not the first film with that premise because a year earlier writer/director René Manzor brought…
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Disney’s Tower of Terror (1997) – Review
When you think about it, turning a theme park attraction into a motion picture is a pretty strange idea, as most rides only last a few minutes it would seem hard to stretch that into a feature film, but back in 2003 Disney took one of their most popular rides and turned it into the…
The Deadly Spawn (1983) – Review
If cinema has taught us anything it’s that meteors are nothing but trouble, they either wipe out cities ala Deep Impact or they’ll bring nasty alien creatures like The Blob to eat the locals, and today we will be looking at writer/director Douglas McKeown’s The Deadly Spawn, a film that falls in that second category…
Phenomena (1985) – Review
What do you get when you mix a psychic teen’s ability to control insects with that of a serial killer stalking the students of an all-girls boarding school, a straight-razor-wielding chimp and Donald Pleasence? If you’ve come up with the answer “A Dario Argento film” then you are clearly a student of Italian Giallo and…
Spider Baby (1967) – Review
If ever there was a film more aptly subtitled “The Maddest Story Ever Told” than Jack Hill’s Spider Baby I’m not unaware of it, and to be sure, there are many crazy movies out there but with this entry, Jack Hill brought to the screen a collection of wonderful oddball characters in a story that…