Having ten films in a franchise may seem impressive at a glance but if said franchise is in the horror genre that’s not necessarily the case, as one successful film can launch countless low budget sequels, and a perfect example of this would be the Hellraiser series as they went direct-to-video after the third installment.
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Jeepers Creepers 3 (2017) – Review
The third installment in a horror franchise is always a tricky thing, the filmmakers often having made a quick buck on a sequel to their successful first outing have completely run out of ideas come the third chapter. Now in the case of Victor Salva’s Jeepers Creepers 3 it’s not a matter of being bereft…
Late Phases (2014) – Review
Who would bring a blind man to a werewolf fight? Apparently, director Adrián García Bogliano would, as his film Late Phases pits a blind Vietnam veteran against a group of nasty lycanthropes, and surprisingly, at times, a fair fight.
Man-Thing (2005) From Comic Book to Screen
One of the great mysteries in the history of film is how and why Marvel put into production a film based on the comic book monster Man-Thing, a character with almost no name recognition – outside of comic book fans that is – and as a title it hadn’t been in publication for years, but…
The Mist (2017) Season One: Review
Adapting a novel to the big screen is never going to be easy, time constraints alone limit you a lot, but when doing it as a television show you can put as much or as little from the book as you’d like, case in point the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist for Spike…