Emerging from the the grainy, black and white frazzle of an 80s avant garde, art house experiment, came Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a
Emerging from the the grainy, black and white frazzle of an 80s avant garde, art house experiment, came Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a
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Long before he oversaw two towering monsters beating the gargantuan shit out of each other on a global stage in the Godzilla/Kong movies, Adam Wingard
During the great Alien/Aliens rip-off gold rush of the 1980s, it seems that everyone wanted a piece of the Xenomorph pie with every low budget,
Earning gold or silver are obviously tremendous achievements, but sometimes just making the podium is impressive enough. Take the Alien franchise for example; nailing first
Since 1979, the Alien franchise has dedicated itself to delivering set pieces that have reliably given audiences more slime and squish for their buck than
When you craft a film as memorable as Ridley Scott’s Alien, it’s a given that others will attempt to ride on your biomechanical coat tails
I know this is a subject that this site has already broached many times before and will no doubt do so many more times in
Part of the reason I love horror so much is that it’s just so goddamn pliable. If you want to watch a slow burning, intelligent
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What constitutes a good remake? Is it the adapting of an existing plot into contemporary times that makes the original concept as fresh as ever?
You know that feeling when you sit down to watch a movie that you’ve taken for granted since forever and you suddenly say to yourself
For a minute there, I truly believed that the video game adaptation had finally broken through and come of age thanks to the likes of
Even someone who can orchestrate action at the level John Woo was operating at during the late 80s needs to let their hair down at
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For the longest time, I’ve tried to ignore the beautifully subtle lure of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense for the most ridiculous of reasons