After the box office backlash from Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, fans were hungry for Michael Myers to return to the big screen. After creative differences between Moustapha Akkad, Debra Hill, and John Carpenter about the direction this film would take, Hill and Carpenter sold all of their rights …
Read More »Retro Review: Death Bed, The Bed That Eats
Oh, to be a character in a horror movie. It’s a perilous place, with danger around every corner. Basically anything can kill you, from frogs to robots to the damn wind. But sometimes, you’ll find a horror director that says, “Fuck all that, I want to make something different. One …
Read More »Tremors (1990) – Retro Review
I’m not the kind of guy that goes to the thrift store for clothes. There’s nothing wrong with shopping for clothes at a thrift store, but I’m much too big of a person to find any used clothing in my size. What I am, though, is the guy that goes …
Read More »Review – Slither (2006)
At the end of its theatrical run in 2006, Slither had failed to recoup its production budget of $29.5 million (almost half of which was spent on marketing), and was therefore considered a “box office flop”. Paul Brooks, president of the film’s production company, Gold Circle, was “crushingly disappointed”, blaming …
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