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 …
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Zombie movies and television shows have always been popular among horror fans. From George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) to the popular new television series The Last of Us (2023), audiences can’t seem to get enough of this horror subgenre. Is it the apocalyptic world these zombies …
Read More »Still Casting Shadows… The Magic Of ‘Dark Shadows’ (1966) Still Strong After 55 Years – Retro Review
It was on this day, June 27th of 1966, that audiences watched a train hurtling through the cold, moonlit night along a rocky coastline. Aboard this train was a young woman in her twenties, Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke). Her destination: the small fishing village of Collinsport, Maine. She has been …
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Remember when Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) had his own TV show called Freddy’s Nightmares? Many of us do, but it was definitely different from the film series. Krueger was normally relegated to a Cryptkeeper role, where he would essentially host the individual episodes. Many of these stories were more wacky …
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Because they imbue you with a sense of shock, awe, terror, or in some cases all three, some movies stick with you long after the credits roll. Part Police procedural, part thriller, part horror movie, David Fincher’s Seven is one such film. With its star studded cast, including the always …
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I’ve always considered myself a huge Tarantino fan. I am well aware that some people think he’s a ripoff artist and a hack… some of those people are my friends. However, I have personally loved all of his films, even his segment in the anthology, Four Rooms (1995), where he …
Read More »Interview with Javier Botet: The Man Who Breathes Life Into Monsters
Did you know that an actual person played Mama in Mama (2013), Crooked Man in The Conjuring 2 (2016), multiple ghosts in Crimson Peak (2015), Slender Man in this year’s Slender Man, Keyface in Insidious: The Last Key (2018), the hobo in IT (2017), and a Neomorph in Alien: Covenant (2017)? That person’s name …
Read More »When Remakes Are A Good Thing… And When They’re Just Wrong
One of the hottest debates amongst fans of cinema these days are whether or not remakes are a good thing. Sometimes, they are a good thing, and other times, they are completely unnecessary. A lot of movie fans feel that remakes are lazy money grabs or cut-and-paste jobs, while others …
Read More »My Favorite Horror Movie: ‘Interview With The Vampire’ (1994)
When asked to write about my favorite horror movie, there was no doubt in my mind what movie to pick: Interview With The Vampire, which was based on the first book of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles and adapted into a movie starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. The opening starts with …
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