Retro Reviews

As a pre-teen (and, of course, throughout much of my life) “monster kid”, Fangoria magazine was my de facto bible. Imagine my anticipation when, in snippets and grainy photos, the story of an upcoming film called The Evil Dead started to appear in it’s pages! Gory violence, rumors of vomiting …

When I was younger, I always loved it when my cousin Marty came down and stayed with us for a few days during the summer. We would always go rent horror movies when he came down and would stay up all night watching them. One of the movies that we …

Halloween II (1981) hits really close to home. Like a ton of people I know, my cousin and I were raised by our grandparents. They worked their fingers to the bone, but every night we both sat with our grandma, and watched a horror movie. I would easily say I …

I remember going to the video store with my mom one Saturday afternoon around Easter when I was in 7th grade and seeing The Pit on the shelf among several other new releases and knew that I had to see it. I thought that the cover looked awesome and after …

Stephen King presents us with those dreams that just stick with you forever. So many titles have been made into movies, and that’s how you know you are a kick ass author. For me, Thinner is by far the most disturbing Stephen King novel that was made into a film. …

Blue Velvet is widely regarded as one of director David Lynch’s greatest achievements and one of the defining films of American independent cinema. Blending mystery, psychological thriller, film noir, and surrealism, the film explores the disturbing contrast between the idyllic image of small-town America and the violence and depravity hidden …

A group of college kids head for the lake for the weekend only to discover that it is full of man-eating sharks, and that isn’t even the worst thing that they have to worry about. I always enjoy a good killer shark movie (and Lord knows that there are a …

Certain movies will swim through my comfort level, sometimes even in a bad way. Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer was part of the golden days of horror. Though you knew it was just a movie, viewer discretition said otherwise. Sometimes movies want to be remembered as shocking or over …

I remember the first time I watched Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, and it scared the hell out of me. However, once I watched it I told myself how brave I was for watching it. There is a lot of childhood trauma to deliver here. Let’s get into the review. …

I was never one for being in a sorority. Granted, if I had to spend the night in a haunted mansion in order to be initiated into one, I probably would have given it a second thought. The evening would have to end on a positive note, of course. You …