In 1977, Universal Pictures released a nice little horror film called The Car, which had James Brolin and Ronny Cox dealing with a demonic car that was terrorizing their small Midwestern town. Now, over forty years later, we get a sequel to that horror classic…well, kind of, but not really. Universal Pictures is once again…
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Black Christmas (1974) – Review
If there are two more vastly different Christmas movies than A Christmas Story and Black Christmas I’m unaware of them, and that these perennial favourites were directed by the same man, Bob Clark just makes it all the more amazing, and for many fans out there the Christmas season isn’t quite complete without a viewing…
Demon Seed (1977) – Review
Computers turning against man is certainly nothing new to the movies; we had the rogue HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, then in the 80s we got Skynet trying to wipe out mankind in James Cameron’s The Terminator, and more recently, Leigh Whannell’s film Upgrade tackled a computer system with its own…
Mandy (2018) – Review
If your response to a religious cult burning your wife alive is to forge a badass axe, hunt them down, and violently murder them all, you should take a look in the mirror because you might be Nicolas Cage. When one settles in to watch a Nicholas Cage movie, it’s a good idea to know…
Blood Fest (2018) – Review
When making a meta-commentary on a genre, is there a line that shouldn’t be crossed? When Wes Craven gave us Scream, with its rule-spouting characters, the self-awareness of genre clichés was somewhat fresh, but now, post-Cabin in the Woods, the subversion of the genre has almost become a cliché in and of itself, and herein…