Retro Reviews

For connoisseurs of parody movies, the gold standard are films such as Hot Shots, The Naked Gun and Scary Movie. Then you have the opposite end of the spectrum with some of the biggest atrocities committed to film (looking at you Friedberg and Seltzer!). Then you have the middle. The …

One night back in 1995 my mom and I were hanging out and were both feeling bored, so I decided to go rent a movie from our local video store. A lot of movies were rented out when I got there and there wasn’t a whole lot to choose from, …

The Exorcism of Emily Rose, directed by Scott Derrickson, isn’t your typical horror film. Marketed as a supernatural drama, it pulls from the real-life case of Anneliese Michel — a young German woman who underwent Catholic exorcisms in the 1970s and later died. Her story set off firestorms of legal, …

As with any modern telling of classic horror past the first two movies, it rarely goes over well amongst horror hounds. Some people don’t want to see 10 movies with the same character and plot. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is one of those movies that people like to …

Psycho is a classic psychological thriller and horror film that has become iconic in the history of cinema and has forever etched itself into horror and pop culture. Regarding the success of the film, Hitchcock said, “Thirty-three percent of the effect of Psycho was due to the music.” However, in …

Rupert Julian’s The Phantom of the Opera is turning 100 years old. The film is an iconic masterpiece, forever in the top ranks of the horror genre. As much as I love the horror genre, silent horror gives me the creeps, and that’s not a bad thing. Nothing compares to …

Jared Padelecki has been in a ton of movies and films in his life. Whether he’s Thomas Kinkade, Dean Forester, Walker Texas Ranger or Sam Winchester, Jared has been a busy man the last 26 years. At a recent interview conducted during Fan Expo Boston, Jared was asked if he …

When The Brothers Grimm first hit theaters in 2005, it was dismissed by many as a messy Terry Gilliam experiment that felt like it didn’t know what it wanted to be. But twenty years later, the film deserves a second look through a different lens. Beneath the storybook aesthetic, hammy …

In the summer of 1990, director Joel Schumacher released Flatliners, a stylish psychological sci-fi horror-thriller that asked one dangerous question: what really happens after death? The film hit U.S. theaters on August 10, bringing neon shadows, gothic set design, and a cast of rising stars who would become household names …

“Are you ready for my wisdom?” ~Nix Welcome back to The Black Box Chronicles as we take a look at a movie I DIDN’T see back when it first came out. As mentioned before, back in 1995 the pay-per-view movie channels would show trailers of not only the movie you …