As in any film involving the remote wilderness and frightening backwoods characters, Guardian begins as a carefree trip of independence (read: topless canoeing) and builds towards a climax of that is filled with horror, sex, betrayal, and real or imagined violence. With the menacing threat of a rapist on the loose as a backdrop, the …
Everything screams cheesy about Queen of Blood. First of all, it stars hunky John Saxon, the excellent-browed, always-busy actor that appeared in his heyday in everything from failed Gene Roddenberry plots to Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon. The movie was made in the middle of the space race (1966), yet early enough where the technology …
Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal is a lesson in not judging a DVD by its cover. I really hate that cover. I hated it so much that I was afraid the movie would somehow have cartoons in it, like, graphic, cannibalistic cartoons. I hated it so much that I immediately blocked out the movie’s arrival after …
Set in North London, the movie – which the press materials refer to as a “rom zom com” (romantic zombie comedy) – centers on hapless twentysomething Shaun (Simon Pegg, who co-wrote the film’s screenplay with director Edgar Wright). Shaun’s life isn’t exactly where he’d like it to be. He’s in a dead-end (ha ha! get …
As a reviewer, it’s always weird to get a sparkly new boxed set in the mail and think to yourself, “Wowie! This thing is awesome! It comes in a tin! With stickers! And lots of movies! And extra features! I love this!” And then you start poking around on message boards where the dedicated uber …
Now for the good stuff! Friday the 13th‘s second sequel was cleverly titled Friday the 13th 3: 3-D. This came out around the same time as a mini-resurgence of 3-D movies in the theaters (I personally remember seeing Jaws 3-D, a supremely crappy sequel most notable for starring Dennis Quaid and having a severed arm …
How does one properly review a horror classic such as Friday the 13th? Could the filmmakers have known at the time that they would have spawned at least a dozen sequels, as well as created pop-culture staples like the deadly summer camp, the killer with a hockey mask, and the first-person perspective of the bad …
My mini-Friday the 13th marathon (mini, as in we only watched the first three of the many many sequels) continued with Friday the 13th Part 2. This film is the epitome of a fast-buck sequel. The first film made an astonishing butt-load of money for a low budget Halloween rip-off (hey, the filmmakers said it …
Unlike many of my friends, I am not a Broadway fiend. I had no reference to the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim in my head when I sat down in the theater. Heck, afterwards I even had to look up Sondheim resume to see what else he had done (Was he …
As my friend and I left the advance screening of Cloverfield, JJ Abrams’ latest production (note: NOT direction), we suddenly found ourselves paced on the sidewalk by a wide-eyed fanboy. He looked at us sheepishly—and more than a little excitedly—and asked, “Did you guys just get out of Cloverfield?” Uh…. yes. “It was AWESOME! Do …