All posts in the 'B-' category
October 26th, 2009
Written by Matthew Sturges, Mark Buckingham, Bill Willingham, Peter Milligan, Chris Roberson, Matt Wagner
Pencils by Luca Rossi, Kevin Nowlan, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Mike Allred, Amy Reeder Hadley
One of my favorite horror comics is DC/Vertigo’s anthology title Flinch, which was published for a too-brief sixteen issue run before cancellation in 2001. Flipping through Vertigo’s brand-new House of [...]
October 3rd, 2009
Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, 2002
Written by W. Boyd Ford
As a thirteen-year-old there wasn’t much more exciting for me than spending the night at friend’s house and getting to rent whatever the heck we wanted to because his parents didn’t care. I wasn’t overly sheltered as a child when it came to R-rated films, [...]
September 21st, 2009
Directed by John Harrison, 2009
Written by John Harrison & Darin Silverman
When it was first announced that THE BOOK OF BLOOD was going to be adapted into a film, I balked. Not because it is a bad story, but because it’s barely a story. THE BOOK OF BLOOD was the framing device Clive Barker used to [...]
September 11th, 2009
Directed by Stewart Hendler, 2009
Written by Josh Stolberg & Pete Goldfinger
One could criticize SORORITY ROW for having mostly unlikeable characters, an aesthetic sense ripped from an American Eagle catalog and dialog lifted wholesale from a wall-to-wall conversation on a freshman’s Facebook page, but one shouldn’t. Go see SORORITY ROW on opening weekend in a college [...]
August 4th, 2009
Directed by Jamie Blanks, 2009
Written by Everett De Roche
These are some expanded thoughts from this mini-review at HorrorSquad.
I haven’t seen LONG WEEKEND, Colin Eggleston’s original 1974 Ozploitation film about a couple who venture into the wild for a few days only to discover that Mother Nature’s creatures great and small don’t take kindly to their [...]
July 29th, 2009
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, 2009
Written by David Johnson, Story by Alex Mace
Have you ever experienced a situation where your preconceptions about something are shattered, only to have the pieces put back together again with the cracks visible? Like walking into an elementary school classroom and hearing the teacher shout obscenities, only to find out later [...]
March 1st, 2009
Directed by Ben Rock, 2008
Written by Julia Fair, David Simkins
I suppose I could listen to the audio commentary that director Ben Rock posted online not too long ago and find an answer, but I wonder if the original script for ALIEN RAIDERS bore the same title. Even if it was intentional, a moniker as generic [...]
February 24th, 2009
Directed by Roar Uthaug, 2006
Written by Thomas Moldestad and Roar Uthaug
There is an implacable aura to COLD PREY other modern slashers may not find relief in purely because it is Norwegian. Not that Roar Uthaug’s film (top that name, by the way; I feel manlier just saying it out loud) gains any particular insight by [...]
January 25th, 2009
Written and Directed by Eric Red, 2008
Having just been released from the pen for murdering her abusive husband Mike, Marnie (Famke Janssen) begins her final year of servitude by way of house arrest. Should she stray more than the titular distance from her ankle monitor’s base unit in the center of her Brooklyn brownstone, said [...]
December 10th, 2008
Directed by J.T. Petty, 2006
A documentary from director/fan J.T. Petty about the underground horror world and its seedy denizens, S&MAN is a sobering look under the toenails of the biggest elephant in our room: There is a subset of horror, ‘the kind you can’t get at Best Buy’, that is nasty, mean spirited, pushy filmmaking. [...]
October 26th, 2008
Developed and produced by Capcom 2006.
I have a confession. If a game has zombies, odds are I am going to like it. If the game gives me the opportunity to shoot said zombies, odds are I am going to love it. Thus I am lucky that Capcom loves killing zombies as much as I do, [...]
May 31st, 2008
Written and Directed by Bryan Bertino, 2008
Wrong people conducting a wrong focus group comprised of more wrong people. Why else would Rogue Pictures show zero confidence in their product, relegating it to some cobwebbed shelf in a warehouse for a year and a half, letting no less than two officially announced release dates slip [...]
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