The 1990s were a roller coaster of a time for the horror genre. From the lackluster franchise sequels in the early 90s to the reinvigoration of the craft through Wes Craven’s Scream in 1996, the decade went out with a bevy of underrated entries. One of the greatest forgotten gems of …
Read More »Guy Ritchie’s ‘Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre’ (2023) – Movie Review
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023) is a new action comedy directed and co-written by Guy Ritchie (The Gentlemen, Wrath of Man, Snatch). I know. I know. This isn’t a horror film. Typically, this genre of film is not our cup of tea, but when the opportunity to review a …
Read More »‘The Faculty’ (1998): An Underrated Classic Turns 20 – Retro Review
Screenwriter Kevin Williamson burst onto the scene in the mid 1990’s with a speculative screenplay he called Scary Movie. The Weinstein Company and Director Wes Craven produced the script and re-titled it Scream just before release. The rest, as they say, is history. Scream changed horror forever and made its screenwriter …
Read More »Top 10 Horror Movies That Prove High School is Hell
There’s a reason so many horror movies take place in high schools and/or focus on teenagers; as a colleague of mine is fond of saying: “High school is a horror movie!” Indeed, it’s a metaphor made in Hell. For adolescents charting the dangerous territory between childhood and adulthood, potentially catastrophic …
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