Homage Or Horrific: The Unholy (1988) | Episode 2

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 […]

The (Un)necessary Remake Dept: The Manitou

Some people might call William Girdler’s The Manitou a ripoff of The Exorcist, and in a sense they’d be right in that both involve possession of a sort.  Then’s there’s the fact that Girdler’s film came five years afterwards, though other than that it’s a whole other animal and deserves revisiting. The movie, based on the novel […]