For whatever reason, I’ve never been big on zombie movies. I think it makes me mad that the zombies move so slowly yet somehow create all sorts of carnage. The whole concept turns me into a total girl, “Like how is this an apocalypse?! Walk faster and you’ll be fine, gosh!” And then boredom and …
Director James Wan has made his mark on horror by directing the first Saw movie, which sawed its way to an extremely successful series of torture-porn sequels. More recently, he surprised the critics with the success of his old-school demon-haunting flick Insidious, a low-budget flick that made a great deal of bank. Alas, I was …
From the overly drawn-out opening credits, with the Vincent-Price-styled blood-red font of the title, to the over-the-top horror movie “duh-DUH!” music, Insidious seems to be simultaneously trying too hard and not hard enough. When the audience is already getting impatient during the opening shots of black-and-white scary hallways and spooky faces in mirrors in the …
World War Z is a series of awesome action scenes strung together by the presence of one constant character, a guy name Gerry, played by Brad Pitt. I imagine Gerry described on paper when the movie version of Max Brooks’ bestselling document of the zombie apocalypse was being pitched for the big screen. “So, since …
About a dozen years ago, while toiling away as a barista as my first post-college job, I would pass the time chatting about movies with my espresso cart co-workers and our customers. One co-worker, lets call her Cathy (because that was her name), started to recommend films to me. I could hear the challenge in …
Now, I’m the first to admit that I haven’t seen the older version, but to take a break from our dreaded tasks this week, my co-workers and I had downloaded the trailer from the 1978 version and thought the original, at least, looked pretty darn cool. Of course new films by definition have to have …
The best thing that this straight-to-video remake of Day of the Dead has going for it is the DVD packaging. The cardboard sleeve has a fabulous old-school holographic image that shows a zombie head vomiting, then not vomiting… vomiting, then not vomiting. Impress your friends by holding up the box (as I did) and say, …
George Romero, the father of zombie movies, is back to show everyone how it is done. And hooo-boy! If you are into flesh ripping, gnawing, pulling, tearing, and shredding, this movie is for you. There are many truly, truly gross and disgusting moments in this film which will make even those with steel stomach squeal …
A few years ago, I went to Glacier National Park, Montana on a vacation. Though, at that point, it was 25+ years after the film had been released, one of the topics that kept coming up was Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film The Shining. “Did you know this is the hallway that was used in …
For the past thirty-four years, all things Amityville have been such a pop culture staple that it’s easy to forget that the first film was based on a true story. With endless sequels and spinoffs, even an Amityville Dollhouse, the idea that the Amityville house still stands and is inhabited seems something of a novelty. …