Land of the Dead (2005) Movie Review

George Romero’s “Land of the Dead” is the fourth installment in the legendary filmmaker’s “Dead” series, which began in the ’60s with “Night of the Living Dead”, continued into the ’70s with “Dawn of the Dead”, and seemingly concluded...

January 24th, 2005 | Read More

Evil Dead Trap 2 (1991) Movie Review

Shy and sullen Aki Otami (Shoko Nakajima) is a projectionist at a fleabag theatre in a rundown and seedy section of town, where she’s haunted by fleeting visions of a small boy whom she spots in various places around the building, though no one else seems to notice him but her. One night, she meets...

January 24th, 2005 | Read More

Black Christmas (1974) Movie Review

(Movie Review by Donnie Saxton) About 90 minutes into “Black Christmas”, my mind began to wander to Steve McQueen spinning his tires in the classic car chase scene from 1968’s “Bullitt.” In ‘68, that particular scene was virtuoso — a defining scene spawning hundreds...

January 13th, 2005 | Read More

Biohazardous (2001) Movie Review

(Movie Review by Jerry White) Make no mistake about it: “Biohazardous” is a bad movie. Luckily, it’s a good bad movie. Filmed entirely in my home state of New Jersey, “Biohazardous” is an old-fashioned, unpretentious, zero budget zombie flick. The acting is terrible, the...

January 9th, 2005 | Read More

Ring of Darkness (2004) Movie Review

David DeCoteau, the director of the low-budget, cheapie “Ring of Darkness”, is gay and proud of it. And the fact that DeCoteau is unapologetically gay means his movies are filled with hunky young men with rock hard bodies who also like getting naked — or at least semi-naked. None of...

December 27th, 2004 | Read More

Trans-American Killer (aka Switch Killer, 2004) Movie Review

Less an actual movie than a reason to film inside a strip club and show a lot of strippers plying their trade, “Trans-American Killer” (known overseas as “Switch Killer”) is pure B-grade Slasher material, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Although it does mean that “Killer”...

December 19th, 2004 | Read More

Enter: Zombie King (2003) Movie Review

There are certain films in which logic is some sort of abstract notion, something to be considered but never truly taken seriously. “Enter…Zombie King” is, beyond any shadow of a doubt, one of these films. It’s a giddy, weird effort that foregoes any attempts at reasonable thought...

December 15th, 2004 | Read More

Blade 3: Trinity (2004) Movie Review

If you enjoyed the originality of the original “Blade”, and thought Del Toro’s “Blade 2″ was hells on wheels, mannerisms and good taste be damned, then David Goyer’s “Blade: Trinity”, the third and supposedly final installment in the comic book superhero...

December 13th, 2004 | Read More

Gargoyles (2004) Movie Review

Here’s a confession: if not for my affinity for Michael Pare, who dominated the direct-to-video action genre in the ’90s and was an A-list movie star in the ’80s (“Streets of Fire” being one of his more famous roles), the low-budget Creature Feature “Gargoyles”...

December 10th, 2004 | Read More

Dracula 3000 (2004) Movie Review

There are bad movies, and then there is “‘Dracula 3000″, a science fiction/horror/unintentional comedy (or is it?) set in the year 3000, where people are flying around in spaceships, but wheelchairs still look like they were stolen from someone’s yard sale circa 1990. Also, spaceships...

November 28th, 2004 | Read More

Trespassing (aka Evil Remains, 2004) Movie Review

Forty minutes into the horror movie “Trespassing” (aka “Evil Remains”), and this thought popped into my head: “Jesus. I can’t believe it. They’re still talking. It’s been 40 minutes since the movie started. Why are they still just sitting or standing around...

November 25th, 2004 | Read More

Bunshinsaba (2004) Movie Review

Another day, another Korean horror film set in an all-girls high school, involving kids with psychic abilities, long-dead former students who returns as ghosts minus the desire to comb their hair, an evil school bully clique, young and sympathetic, but very ineffectual, teachers, and finally, the old...

November 21st, 2004 | Read More

Seed of Chucky (2005) Movie Review

The “Child’s Play” franchise is known for two very stable and dependable things — Chucky the doll is a homicidal maniac with one of the greatest laugh in Cinematic Slasher history, and you can count on seeing Don Mancini’s name underneath “written by”. Mancini...

November 20th, 2004 | Read More

Sisily 2km (2004) Movie Review

There’s a lot you can do with a horror film spoof, especially with all the Asian horror films flooding the market, with their cookie cutter formulas, derivative plotlines, and obsession with ghosts with long dark hair that likes to appear in bathroom mirrors. (I believe it’s some kind of...

November 17th, 2004 | Read More

Children of the Living Dead (2004) Movie Review

After standing on the sideline and witnessing the success George Romero had with his two sequels to “Night of the Living Dead”, John Russo, who co-wrote and produced “Night”, decided to make a sequel without Romero’s involvement, and presumably “cash in” on the...

November 14th, 2004 | Read More

R-Point (2004) Movie Review

Here’s the heads up on the new South Korean horror film “R-Point”, a movie set during the tail end of the Vietnam War: it’s not so much as scary as it is psychologically interesting, with a heavy dose of atmosphere to help you get over the lack of horror. Not much happens in the...

November 11th, 2004 | Read More

Bloody Bill (aka Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill, 2004) Movie Review

“Bloody Bill” is a zombie film with probably one-millionth the budget of the recent “Dawn of the Dead” remake’s catering budget — if that. Directed by long-time cinematographer Byron Werner and written by John and Matt Yuan, the film follows a group of college students...

November 10th, 2004 | Read More

Three: Extremes (2004) Movie Review

The release of the Asian horror anthology “Three…Extremes” on DVD comes as a bit of a dilemma to international moviegoers who had already seen one of the three stories, Fruit Chan’s “Dumplings”, when it was released earlier in full-length version. As with the original...

November 1st, 2004 | Read More

Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (2002) Movie Review

Although completed in 2002, “Samhain” has been gathering dust in the film vault awaiting distribution. That’s a bit of a shame, since this inventive mix of porn stars and outrageous gore is a fairly good way to spend an evening. An audacious bit of filmmaking, “Samhain”...

October 30th, 2004 | Read More

The Grudge (2004) Movie Review

The latest in an ever growing line of remakes of Japanese horror films is a rather underachieving effort that doesn’t measure up to previous attempts. This ghost story is long on eerie atmosphere and mood, but falls short in delivering a script that engages the audience. “The Grudge”...

October 26th, 2004 | Read More