This eighth entry in the Howling franchise was considered a reboot by Anchor Bay Entertainment but as this particular horror series had little to no continuity between entries I’m not sure what they thought they were actually trying to reboot, then again, after the previous producer did his best to run the franchise off a…
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Howling VI: Freaks (1991) – Review
What would a Howling movie be like if it combined elements from Tod Browning’s Freaks, Clive Barker’s Nightbreed and a dash of the 1970s Incredible Hulk television show for good measure? For those interested, this supposition was answered in the 1991 direct-to-video movie Howling IV: Freaks where in this sixth entry in the franchise we…
Howling III: The Marsupials (1987) – Review
I’ve seen horror franchises go off the rails before but never so quickly and so spectacularly as The Howling movies, the series began with Joe Dante’s original in 1981 where a news reporter found herself trapped in a colony of werewolves but as strange as that sounds the sequel, Howling II: Your Sister is a…
Godzilla (1998) – Review
When it comes to Japanese exports there is no greater example than Godzilla and with over thirty Godzilla films and counting it’s a hard point to argue, but when it comes to Americanizing this iconic monster things haven’t gone all that well. Lately, we’ve been treated to Godzilla in the new Monsterverse that at least…
Tremors: Three Decades of Graboid Fun
Back in 1990 Ron Underwood and a few of friends thought to bring back the old monster genre made popular in the 50s, the one that dealt with giant ants and the like, but even though their little movie was about subterranean worm-like creatures it didn’t quite set the box office on fire, yet it…