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…
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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…
From Hell It Came (1957) – Review
Do you remember when the tree grabbed that kid out of his bedroom in Poltergeist? Or how about the poor girl getting raped by the forest in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead? As genres go “The Killer Plant Movie” is a rather small subset of horror films – with a few notable films like Little Shop…