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Please forgive me. I've cheated. I had always planned to do this film for 2004 because of the pure wasteland that year was for under the radar films. Yeah, you might remember Shaun of the Dead but that flick has pretty much been written to death.I've been trying to do underrated films.  So, here's ...

Thailand's Buppah Rahtree: Curse of the Night Flower is exactly the kind of film I started this column for in the first...

"We don't kill people, son. We kill demons"-- Dad Meiks

When I sat down to do a write-up for 2001, several movies dominated my thoughts. Donnie Darko seemed like the clear frontrunner for this, but it failed on two counts: it isn't horror, and these days it isn't underrated. There was also Session 9 and The Others, both top-flight movie...

Here we are at last, in the 2000s. As you can see from that above image, today's film isn't pulling any punches. John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps was exactly the kind of movie the horror genre needed after the glut of under-cooked teen slashers that dominated the latter part of the 90s. Werewolves never properl...

Now this is what I'm talking about! Giant fire-breathing turtles!  A giant tentacle monster who has a life connection to a bitter teen! Steven Seagal's daughter in one of the lead roles! Gamera: Revenge of Iris is classic dumbhouse, and it just might be the very best Kaiju film that Japan has produ...

Hey everybody, welcome back to the regular format. Had a great time with that Relic review and it was wonderful to get a chance to see the movie again. Thanks again to Danny for dropping by and taking the time to chat up Hyam's little gem with me. Now we move on to 1998 and close in on the end of...

O.K., it's the homestretch of  this one. Let's wrap this beastie up and I'll be back later with 1998 and a city of angels that doesn't have Nicholas Cage...

Peter Jackson's The Frighteners was the best movie of the summer back in 1996. ...

What is it that makes a film “scary”?  I don’t mean simple jump thrills or a little ...

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." 

I’ll cop to it upfront. Jeunet and Caro’s Delicatessen isn’t a horror film. Sure, it might seem that way if you considered the film’s plot: the down and out residents of a...

Well, here we are in the 90s, with one whole decade at our backs. I was 11 in 1990 so the 90s really formed the entirety of my teenage years. For awhile there I was paying attention to other things than horror, and it was probably just as well, since a fair amount of the 90s didn't really produce much memo...

George Sluizer has made two movies called The Vanishing. One of them is relentless and unsettling and the other is a dopey, one-note thriller. The first was f...

What happened to Tsui Hark? The talented director responsible for such exciting, dizzy action adventures as Zu Warriors of Magic Mountain, Swordsman and the Once Upon a Time in China series has vanished. The man bearing Hark's name now has churned out a decent...