Retro Reviews

Note: This article was written during the 2023 WGA and SGA-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, True Romance, being covered here, wouldn’t exist. When asked what my favorite romance film is I always gleefully respond, True Romance (1993). Before the grumbling begins, understand …

Synopsis: “A football star throws a party for his friends. Two insane killers escape from a nearby asylum on that same night, and in their efforts to elude authorities, wind up at the party.” The guys over at Vinegar Syndrome are extremely adept at releasing obscure films that you never …

The early 1980s were a golden era of horror. It served as the first wave of the American slasher craze and made rock stars out of the FX teams responsible for creating some of the most inventive kills to date. It was also when feature-length Stephen King adaptations were a …

Synopsis: A young man arrives at his father’s mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding. Possibly inspired by Angel Heart (1987), writer/director David Schmoeller (Puppet Master, Tourist Trap) helmed Full Moon Feature’s inventive 1992 voodoo in …

NOTE: This story was published during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the films being covered here wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts. Synopsis: Slave traders bring back an evil voodoo entity that …

NOTE: This story was published during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the films being covered here wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts. Can you believe Joe Dante’s Piranha was released all the …

Twenty-five years ago, New Line Cinema decided to make a movie adaptation of the Marvel Comics character “Blade” aka Eric Cross aka Frank Blade. Unlike the present-day MCU, Blade was darker, and bloodier, and spawned an era of five years when vampire hunting was cool. Let’s go back to the …

NOTE: This story was published during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the films being covered here wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts. Loaded with meaningful subtext, yet still retaining the more exploitative …

It’s been two decades since the world was introduced to the rum-loving Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 [our review]) in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Directed by Gore Verbinski, and written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio …

Hi there! I am about to wage yet another semi-defense of a movie that some people hate. Won’t you join me? This time I am, of course, discussing the movie Krull, a British-American science fantasy film released in 1983. It was directed by Peter Yates and written by Stanford Sherman, and …