Basing a movie on a novel or stage play would be considered to be a rather common origin for many productions while basing a movie on a theme park ride is anything but normal. Enter Disney Studios who just so happened to own the most famous theme parks in the world. With corporate synergy being…
Tag: horror
Assimilate (2019) – Review
There have been many adaptations of Jack Finney’s classic science fiction tale The Body Snatchers, where alien organisms arrive on Earth and quickly proceed to duplicate the inhabitants, but as this has now become almost a subgenre, I see no problem with anyone taking another swing at the bat. Right off the top, I’ll state…
The Turning (2020) – Review
A modern take on Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw is certainly an interesting idea, sadly, the makers of this film failed to provide anything interesting to the proceedings. Worse is the fact that not only does the film fail to tell a comprehensible story but it’s also not all that scary.
The Night Eats the World (2018) – Review
Most zombie films deal with a small ragtag group of survivors trying to stay alive during a zombie apocalypse, from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead to Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland, but with Dominque Rocher’s The Night Eats the World, we have a story that deals with the idea of one man being alone in…
The Battery (2012) – Review
A question that often comes to mind when watching a zombie movie is, “How would I personally make out if there were an actual zombie outbreak?” As most of us aren’t Woody Harrelson or Brad Pitt, the odds of surviving such an event would be greatly reduced (unless you were lucky enough to be living…