Retro Reviews

“It’s the end of the world.” Today, we celebrate the 55th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s riveting masterpiece, The Birds, which was released in 1963. Along with 1960’s Psycho, The Birds is one of the films that are identified with Hitchcock. The man is known as a Master of Suspense for good …

Made for TV B movies are usually hit or miss. As for Sea Beast, this one swung and missed completely. Where do I begin with this film? Writers Neil Elman and Paul Ziller managed to combine elements of The Perfect Storm, Predator and Jaws to create this movie. You would think combining …

“Resident Evil……Two.” The Resident Evil franchise as we know it today spans 22 years and at least 22 video games. It broke ground for the survival horror genre and their realistic graphics and sound made the games actually scary to play for the younger audience. The first game, released in …

Among the first films to introduce horror with a Christmas theme, Lewis Jackson’s 1980 Christmas Evil boldly brings horror to the holidays. For the times, this cult classic and the few titles that came before, risked being perceived as taboo. While they weren’t widely received, these films found a niche …

Captain’s Log Stardate 422… wait, wrong franchise. Yes, believe or not William Shatner, AKA Captain Kirk from Star Trek, tried his hand in the horror genre back in 1977. Kingdom of The Spiders is the tale of a veterinarian named Rack (Shatner) who looks after his widowed sister-in-law (Marcy Lafferty) …

On Christmas Eve 1967, Jack Hill’s Spider Baby, The Maddest Story Ever Told (AKA Cannibal Orgy, The Maddest Story Ever Told) introduced us to the delightfully demented Merrye family. Elizabeth, Virginia, and Ralph are the last members of a wealthy, reclusive, and horribly inbred family cursed with a disease that …

Vampire movies have been done to death over the years, from the Blade series to the Hammer horror films to the cringe worthy Twilight films to the beloved Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Even the great movies such as From Dusk Till Dawn, John Carpenter’s Vampires and The Lost Boys follow …

Twenty years ago, on December 12th, was the release of Wes Craven’s revolutionary film that made sequels cool again: Scream 2. Written by Kevin Williamson, the film follows the survivors from the film Scream as they head to college. Much like the first film, the opening 10 minutes are a …

God bless the coked out ’80s. In a decade where anything and everything went, Night Train to Terror had it all. The best part is, it’s not just a single movie but three films crammed into one. The film is similar to Creepshow, Tales From the Hood and Terror Tract. However, rather …

Directed by Lewis Teague (who went on to direct Cat’s Eye) and originally written by Stephen King, Cujo (read our interview with Dee Wallace – here) is most impressive for its realism. Rather than being cursed by magic or something inexplicable, a St. Bernard named Cujo contracts rabies after getting bit …