Retro Reviews

While Spider-Man is my favorite superhero, I am also quite fond of Batman as well. I love Batman: The Animated Series so I was extremely excited when I heard that there was going to be a movie that took place in the same universe coming out back in 1993 and …

Bob Murawski and the late Sage Stallone’s Grindhouse Releasing, famed for cleaning up those gritty, grimy and often (and maybe rightfully so) overlooked films that existed on the fringes of “respectable” cinema, gives the seldom seen Hollywood 90028 a shiny new package with all the bells and whistles that collectors …

My wife and I have started watching old made for TV movies from the 70s and 80s on Tubi and YouTube recently. The other night we found one called Crawlspace from 1972 that neither one of us had ever seen or even heard of. We thought that it sounded like …

Salem’s Lot is a two-part miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 horror novel of the same name. Directed by Tobe Hooper, known for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), it tells the chilling story of a small town in Maine called Jerusalem’s Lot (nicknamed “Salem’s Lot”), which gradually falls prey …

It’s officially the holiday season again, and while normal folks celebrate and get into the Christmas spirit by watching traditional films like It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, and other Yuletide classics, the Martin household always gets ready by watching the 1984 slasher flick classic Silent Night, Deadly …

Foreign horror has never excited me. It’s just never been my thing. However; If you can sit through the dialogue trying to create a story. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is the perfect movie to dissect, what makes it so great? Does the storyline make any sense? Kind of, yeah. It …

A Nightmare on Elm Street, directed and written by Wes Craven, is the horror film that introduced the world to Freddy Krueger, an iconic slasher character portrayed by Robert Englund, and also put New Line Cinema on the map (it’s nicknamed “The House that Freddy Built” for a reason). Who …

Some books deserve a film adaptation. Most of those films are directed around Stephen King novels. Many of his writings terrorize people in their sleep. He is the king of nightmares and wears it well from cameos to collaborating with other legends in their field of films. Stephen King has …

It’s been 25 years since this haunted house’s doors opened to moviegoers. Inspired by the 1959 film of the same name, House on Haunted Hill is a haunted house film that dares to ask the viewer, “Would you spend the night in a haunted house for $1,000,000?” That is if …

Phantom Of The Paradise turns 50 this year. I watched it for the first time and all I have to say is Phantom Of The Opera meets Rocky Horror Picture Show. Which fun fact Rocky Horror was released a year after Phantom Of The Paradise.  Synopsis After record producer Swan(Paul Williams) …