In An Exceptional Year For Horror, Let’s Not Forget The Simple, Violent Delights of Primate
It’s been a fantastic year for horror movies, and we’re still a long way off from October. Films like Obsession...
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Ranking Every ‘The Omen’ Movie
It’s been 50 years since the release of The Omen, one of the best horror films of the 1970s, and...
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer Remains A Shocking And Necessary Piece Of The Twin Peaks Puzzle
The story goes that a 12-year-old Jennifer Lynch was picked up from school one day by her father, the filmmaker...
Ghosts of Mars: 25 Years of John Carpenter’s Infamously (And Intentionally?) Awful Film
If there’s one complaint about movies I hate more than any other it’s “oh, they just didn’t care. They weren’t...
Batman: Revolution Has An Excellent Riddler But Is Otherwise A Lame Continuation Of Burton’s Batman
The issue with a novel sequel to Tim Burton’s Batman is that the music and the visuals are what make...
Batman: Resurrection is a Fun but Misguided Prose Sequel to Tim Burton’s Poetic Batman
Batman Returns co-writer Daniel Waters has spoken about how Tim Burton’s Batman films are poetry. Artistic, flowing, visual tone poems...
Phantom of the Opera (1943) Pioneered The Bad Horror Remake
The horror remake is a perennial issue but justifying them used to be much easier. Despite being released just 18...
When Hellraiser Went To The Past, Future, And Space All In One Messy Movie
Space. The final frontier for horror franchises that are creatively dead, from Critters to Friday the 13th. But Hellraiser got...
Outland: What If Alien Was A Western?
I took a chance on Outland. Arrow Films have just released a new 4K restoration and I picked up a...
Black Christmas (1974) is a Cosy Christmas Classic (with Murder and C-Bombs)
Home Alone just doesn’t do it for me anymore. I get zilch from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Nada from Elf....
