Why are the horror icons of the eighties so difficult to recast? Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster never had this trouble, with Gary Oldman and Robert
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Ash Vs Evil Dead – Season 1, Episode 2: Bait
After the pilot dropped us back into the world of demon killing dumbass, Ashley J. Williams and the gibbering hordes of the undead with a
Hellraiser
The 80’s were an insanely fertile time for the horror genre where genuinely imaginative and freakish classics were seemingly sprouting up everywhere. 1981 alone gave
Piranha 2: The Spawning
If James Cameron had his way – and to be honest, he usually does – his illustrious filmography of box office breaking, cinematic world building
Friday The 13th
With all the horror remakes whizzing around the place during the noughties, it’s frankly amazing that a Friday The 13th remake took so long to
Aquaman
Sea-Thor, Sea-Thor, on the sea floor?After one of the most disappointing payoffs in cinema history scuppered all that good will provided by Wonder Woman, you
Zombieland: Double Tap
“Belated” sequels have been known to be problematic at times, just ask Henry Jones Jr.. With the passing of time slowly eroding the movie’s momentum
Dreamcatcher
Just because you are the world’s preeminent horror author, it doesn’t mean that you’re not gonna produce the odd stinker every now and then and
First Man
Dealing with the space race to land on the moon during the 1960’s and primarily Neil Armstrong’s mental state during that time, First Man is
Salem’s Lot
After Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie hit big the race was on to adapt the author’s books pretty much as fast as
Halloween 2
I think it’s safe to say that Rob Zombie’s crack at John Carpenter’s timeless slasher template was not all it could have been. Trying to
Overlord
Sometimes fun is all you need. No big stars, no huge talent calling “action” (unless you count J.J. Abrams with a weighty producers credit, and
The Story Of Ricky
Even though I myself have used the phrase before – possibly in one of these very reviews – I’ve never really liked the term “guilty
Fast And Furious
By 2009 and after a string of flops as long as your arm, Vin Diesel finally returned to the movie that made his name in
Gamera 2: Attack Of Legion
A year after Gamera and Gyaos adjusted the Japanese skyline with their gargantuan sized grudge match, a freak meteor storm peppers the northern region of
Ma
Blumhouse is at it again. Utilizing their uncanny sense of the zeitgeist and racially progressive stories in order to add some much needed spice with
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
And so, after 19 years of chugging along faithfully, the often uneven, sometimes brilliant, always interesting X-Men franchise finally comes to the end of it’s
Mortal Kombat
So such disdain has been hurled at Paul W.S. Anderson over the years that people seem to forget that early in his kareer he kreated
Gamera: Super Monster
God dammit, Daiei, just what the hell is wrong with you?Imagine me saying this out loud as one long exhausted sigh while pinching the bridge
Gamera Vs. Jiger
The final, palatable Gamera movie of the original 60’s-70’s run (brace yourself as there’s two more to go) sees the child befriending mega turtle probably
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