Retro Reviews

35 years ago, I was a little kid into horror, but I was still a little afraid of certain movies that I grew to love. In 1989, I was learning about the world, sucking everything in. When they released Little Monsters, I found a new meaning in horror movies again, …

*Spoiler Warning* – The Abyss is 35 years old, so I’m going to assume if you’re reading this you’ve already seen it. If not, go do that now. Don’t worry, I’ll wait… Now that you’ve had time to watch it and come back, I’m going to continue under the assumption …

The WNUF Halloween Special has often been ignored or excluded. However, people are missing a fantastic throwback for horror hounds of all ages. If you grew up on horror movies, you would understand. The plot is chaotic by the end, even if it is a found-footage movie. I am not …

Even though I love sharks, I have always had this irrational fear that I was going to be left out in the middle of the ocean all by myself without any hope of being rescued. I used to have nightmares about this when I was a kid, so when I …

The very name Rob Zombie can trigger people. There’s a line in the sand; sometimes, people cross it. I am a firm believer that I should give anything one try. Some movies stick, and some don’t. I am a personal fan of Zombie’s work. As social media evolves, so do …

My love for Jason Voorhees and the iconic Friday the 13th film series began at a very young age. Some might say too young: long before Jason Lives, in fact. It started with Part 2 on HBO when I was probably 7 or 8 years old. The original followed, and then Part …

Once upon a time, before most of us ditched cable, we were entertained by the simplest genre offerings. For me, most of those films were SYFY Originals, although I despise the weird modernized name for the Sci-Fi channel. That doesn’t matter; what matters is that you could see some amazing …

The Collector, released in 2009, is one of my all-time favorite movies. I am thrilled and honored to get to write an article about it to celebrate its fifteenth (15!) anniversary. I don’t honestly remember its initial release, as it was during a period of my life when I didn’t …

I spent a lot of time in the Mayan indie theater in high school and college, but I never saw it with a line around the block and people as excited as the night one movie came out: The Blair Witch Project. Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez on …

Doug Sakmann and Lloyd Kaufman made this work in 2003. I will admit here that these movies are wrong now. But it’s all so bad that I love it. Watching your heroes die in extreme ways, with minimal CGI, stole my heart. Why was there no more? I don’t precisely …