Retro Reviews

Salem’s Lot is a two-part miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 horror novel of the same name. Directed by Tobe Hooper, known for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), it tells the chilling story of a small town in Maine called Jerusalem’s Lot (nicknamed “Salem’s Lot”), which gradually falls prey …

It’s officially the holiday season again, and while normal folks celebrate and get into the Christmas spirit by watching traditional films like It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and other Yuletide classics, the Martin household always gets ready by watching the 1984 slasher flick classic Silent Night, Deadly …

Foreign horror has never excited me. It’s just never been my thing. However; If you can sit through the dialogue trying to create a story. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is the perfect movie to dissect, what makes it so great? Does the storyline make any sense? Kind of, yeah. It …

A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed and written by Wes Craven, is the horror film that introduced the world to Freddy Krueger, an iconic slasher character portrayed by Robert Englund, and also put New Line Cinema on the map (it’s nicknamed “The House that Freddy Built” for a reason). Who …

Some books deserve a film adaptation. Most of those films are directed around Stephen King novels. Many of his writings terrorize people in their sleep. He is the king of nightmares and wears it well from cameos to collaborating with other legends in their field of films. Stephen King has …

It’s been 25 years since this haunted house’s doors opened to moviegoers. Inspired by the 1959 film of the same name, House on Haunted Hill is a haunted house film that dares to ask the viewer, “Would you spend the night in a haunted house for $1,000,000?” That is if …

Phantom Of The Paradise turns 50 this year. I watched it for the first time and all I have to say is Phantom Of The Opera meets Rocky Horror Picture Show. Which fun fact Rocky Horror was released a year after Phantom Of The Paradise.  Synopsis After record producer Swan(Paul Williams) …

I remember sitting in the theater, awestruck, the first time I saw the trailer. I want to say it was during the previews before Freddy vs. Jason. I can’t remember the exact moment, because let’s face it, it was a while ago. What I DO remember was being completely blown …

Zombieland is a 2009 horror-comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer, which combines elements of zombie horror with a satirical approach to survival in a post-apocalyptic world. The film follows four unlikely companions — Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) — as they …

I can’t believe it’s already been 10 years since Horns was released. I remember hearing about it and seeing trailers, and I was incredibly worried that the film would ruin the book for me, in the way that film adaptations are wont to do. Having already read, and loved, the …