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The Mummy (2001) Movie Review
Stephen Sommers’ “The Mummy” was so good and (most important of all) so profitable that they not only made a sequel, but they made a prequel out of a minor character. In its truest...
Read More »The Mummy Returns (2003) Movie Review
Sequels are, by their very nature, never as “good as the original.” The biggest reason for this is because the sequel can’t surprise you (the audience) when everything has been explained/done/shown in the original....
Read More »Saint Sinner (2002) Movie Review
The Sci-fi Channel movie “Saint Sinner” is officially called “Clive Barker Presents Saint Sinner.” Unlike his fellow horror writers, Barker has always been comfortable with cinematic versions of his works, and have oftentimes written...
Read More »Route 666 (2001) Movie Review
It comes as no surprise that the Lou Diamond Phillips starrer “Route 666,” about federal marshals that encounter murderous spirits on the titular road, is not a very good movie. As if to compound...
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Nang Nak (1999) Movie Review
The story of Nang Nak (which translates from Thai as “Miss Nak” (the formal/respectful designation for a woman)) has been told ad infinitum and remains a popular (if not the most popular) part of...
Read More »Tell Me Something (1999) Movie Review
“Tell Me Something” is an interesting thriller about a serial killer who is offing (and then dismembering) the ex-lovers of a beautiful young woman. Not satisfied with just cutting them to pieces while they’re...
Read More »A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Movie Review
“A Nightmare on Elm Street” is a genre movie through and through, but it’s also one of the best, for this simple reason: like the original “Halloween” and “Hellraiser,” “Nightmare” brought something new to...
Read More »The Fog (1980) Movie Review
John Carpenter’s 1980 horror film “The Fog” is about passengers on a ship that return from the dead to seek revenge on the relatives of 6 men who tricked them to their death 100...
Read More »Say Yes (2001) Movie Review
If movies have taught me anything (and to be honest, they’ve taught me very little, natch), it’s never to drive cross-country without either a gun or a really big bodyguard. I bring this up...
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Phantasm (1979) Movie Review
Don Coscarelli’s “Phantasm” is one of those movies from the late ’70s that I’ve heard a lot about, but has never seen. It’s achieved cult status among horror aficionados and is treated with the...
Read More »Frailty (2002) Movie Review
“Frailty” is a thriller made post-”The Usual Suspects” and “Sixth Sense”, so by that criteria alone it must have a twist ending. The problem with this is that most movies just don’t take the...
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Evil Dead (1981) Movie Review
A lot of people find it hard to believe now, but “Evil Dead,” the first film in the “Evil Dead” series (it includes sequels “Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn” and “Army of Darkness”)...
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Dark Water (2002) Movie Review
It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that you could throw a rock at the present Asian film industry and hit a dozen or so ghost stories either being conceived, are...
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Long Time Dead (2002) Movie Review
Besides being incredibly lacking in originality, scares, or even those small guilty pleasures I always manage to find in any Slasher film, the new British Slasher flick “Long Time Dead” doesn’t even have the...
Read More »Return of the Living Dead (1985) Movie Review
There are only two correct ways to approach a Zombies Attack movie: either take the whole thing seriously (Fulci’s “Zombie”) or go the spoof route (“The Dead Hate the Living”). Dan O’Bannon’s “Return of...
Read More »Nightmare (aka Gawi, 2000) Movie Review
The South Korean horror film “Nightmare” is a slasher film in the vein of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” with heavy doses of supernatural elements ala the Japanese film “Ring.” It’s a...
Read More »Queen of the Damned (2002) Movie Review
A friend once asked me, “Do you read Anne Rice?” To which I replied (flippantly), “Do I look like a lonely housewife or a Goth-wannabe to you?” Author Anne Rice is a writer of...
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Blade 2 (2002) Movie Review
In one particularly telling scene in Guillermo del Toro’s “Blade 2,” a vampire is nailed to the wall by another character’s sword, but instead of pulling the sword out and escaping that way, the...
Read More »The Eye (2002) Movie Review
The phrase “Two minds are better than one” seems to hold sway when it comes to sibling filmmakers. Which might explain the recent boom in multiple filmmakers from the same family attached to the...
Read More »The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Movie Review
The Mothman Prophecies is based on a novel of the same name by John A. Keel, a real-life journalist who supposedly wrote about “true events” that occurred in the small town of Point Pleasant,...
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