As a sort of an homage to the slasher horror genre, Fear Street Part One: 1994 was pretty damn good. The problem is that Fear Street Part Two: 1978 is pretty much the same movie. Sure, the characters change, the locations (and time period) change, but it’s still the same movie. And that really sucks […]
I don’t think it’s hyperbole if one were to say Guillermo Del Toro is among the most renown directors of the fantastic working today. Since his first feature film, 1993’s Chronos, the Mexican auteur has been well represented in the worlds of horror and the uncanny. Then there was 2015’s Crimson Peak, which was a […]
I really liked Netflix’s Fear Street Part 1: 1994 (2021) primarily because it was designed as a trilogy from the start, a risk traditional studios don’t often make (because when you’re basing whether or not a sequel comes about on the profitability of the movie before it it’s a really dangerous – and dumb, unless […]
Part of what bothers me about the current iteration of zombie – popularized (and ruined) by Zach Snyder, which is par for the course – is that they veer from the blueprint, the Bible, written by George Romero, who proclaimed from the mount that was Night of the Living Dead (1968) that ‘Zombies don’t run, […]
I don’t tend to read other people’s movie reviews – unless they’re irrelevant enough that I don’t take details from them because I can be that impressionable – and after I have already reviewed something I’m not typically too interested in what anyone thinks about the same subject. And I didn’t need to track down […]
I wasn’t a huge fan of David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) reboot because it forgot – if it ever understood in the first place – that John Carpenter’s original 1978 movie was the film that put slasher movies on the map. And I don’t mean that to imply that it was the first, because it […]
Camilo Vela’s The Unholy is certainly watchable though there’s a problem when there’s another movie that has virtually the same story beats. It gets worse when the movie comes before it, in this case eleven years. And that movie is Michael Winner’s The Sentinel (1977) and when I say that it shares story beats in […]
When I saw the Official ‘Early Access Do Not Share’ Trailer for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad I assumed that it was a clever marketing strategy on the part of Warner Bros, which would fit what I know of James Gunn, personalty-wise. Well, I might have been wrong because according to Superherohype the The Suicide […]
What would summer be without the latest Marvel Studios blockbuster? It should have been Black Widow (2021) though that movie – finally arriving July 9 after hopping around the release calendar is premiering in theaters and Disney+ as movie studios devastated by COVID-19 try to bounce back (a web not even a master spy like […]
This trailer really irritates me because it’s a perfect example of having one’s cake and eating it too. If you recall Clive Barker’s The Forbidden (as well as Bernard Rose’s adaptation, Candyman (1992)) the idea was originally that the ‘monster’ had his origins in Slavery, which made him not only poignant, but his creation well […]
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