If there’s one person capable of capturing the psychological unraveling of a tortured writer, it’s Stephen King. His novella, Secret Window, Secret Garden was published in the collection, Four Past Midnight (1990). It depicts a writer whose life is in shambles and whose mind is sure to follow. Adapted for the …
Read More »Gillman, How I Love Thee…’THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON’ (1954) Turns 70!
For the most part, the Universal monster films I saw as a kid (Saturday afternoons when I was a wee lad on WUAB 43 out of Cleveland, Super Host!!) were pretty engrossing to my pre-adolescent mind. Lugosi’s Dracula was creepy, as was Karloff’s muted menacing in Frankenstein, but the full …
Read More »A Sequel Where Nothing Is Sacred – ‘SLASHENING: THE FINAL BEGINNING’ Blu-ray Review
2015’s The Slashening was a solid, hilarious horror/comedy film filled with enough gags, gore and winks and nods to the audience to satisfy even the most ardent of Troma fans. Finally arriving on Blu-ray, writer/director Brandon Bassham’s (Shakespeare’s Shitstorm) 2021 gonzo, irreverent sequel, Slashening: The Final Beginning takes it up …
Read More »Rediscover A Bonafide Classic! ‘THE LOST’ (2006) Blu-ray Review
“Based on true events” films are hit and miss. Often over dramatized and of dubious quality, they can easily fall into terrible TV reenactment territory. The Lost, adapted from the late Jack Ketchum’s (The Girl Next Door) novel, that in turn was based upon real life killer Charles Schmid, is …
Read More »Getting It Right: ‘THE WRONG DOOR’ (1990) – Blu-ray Review
A ton of shot-on-video stuff, while inspired, fell through the cracks during the home video explosion of the late 80s-early 90s. But, while dusting this stuff off for sharper new releases, Wild Eye’s Visual Vengeance unearthed a lost gem that was (Yikes!) shot on Super-8: The Wrong Door. Synopsis Ted …
Read More »Is ‘CRUEL INTENTIONS’ (1999) Still Deliciously Evil and Wickedly Sexy?
Cruel Intentions was released on March 5,1999. It was a modern retelling of the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses and was cast full of the popular young talent of the time. Let’s revisit this film and some movie trivia on its 25th anniversary to see if it is still deliciously evil …
Read More »Revisiting A Rebooted Gore Classic: ‘BLOOD FEAST’ (2016) – 4K Ultra Review
The “Godfather of Gore,” Herschell Gordon Lewis (The Gore, Gore Girls) left a blood soaked, indelible mark on horror with many of his films before his passing, none was more notorious at the time, than Blood Feast. This was controversial stuff in 1963, in fact, its tagline, “nothing so appalling …
Read More »Celebrating 20 Years of Broken Lizard’s ‘CLUB DREAD’ (2004)
February 27, 2024, is the 20th anniversary of the release of the movie Club Dread. Over time, the film has essentially become a cult classic. Enough has been written about the comedy troupe behind the film, Broken Lizard, the guys behind Super Troopers. so rather than focus on them, this …
Read More »‘THE ‘BURBS’ (1989) Is One Hell Of A Horror Comedy!
The ‘Burbs (1989) is celebrating its 35th anniversary this month. Let’s take a look back at this horror comedy that made suburbia seem like one hell of a place and explore a little movie trivia. But first? Check out the trailer! Synopsis Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) is a man trying …
Read More »The Sweetest Candy: ‘JAWBREAKER’ (1999) Turns 25
When asked to name a movie that was way ahead of its time, the first that comes to my mind is Jawbreaker (1999). Confused by its sweet, bright, candy-coated marketing campaign, moviegoers didn’t clamor to theaters to see it. But in the past 25 years, this pitch black comedy of a …
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