As the silver age of the slasher film radiated out from the seismic crater created from Scream, it soon became clear that the second coming
Tag: 1990s
A Cat In The Brain (1990) – Review
A quick glance over the blood flecked resume of Italian gore meister Lucio Fulci shows that, for the most part, the eye popping director has
Air Force One (1997) – Review
Die Hard rip offs were all the rage in the nineties as every conceivable alternate forms of setting were thrown at us with reckless abandon.
The Fugitive (1993) – Review
For quite a while there, Harrison Ford was regarded as the everyman hero in American cinema for round about twenty years or so which, when
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) – Review
The exact second Drew Barrymore picked up that ringing phone in Scream, the American slasher movie was reborn in a cavalcade of meta references, iconic
Ghost In The Shell (1995) – Review
While Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner seemingly delivered the first and last word in rainy, dystopian futures where everyone is having an existential crisis about their
Perfect Blue (1997) – Review
Those who don’t tend to dip their toes frequently in the pool of endless possibilities that is Anime tend to write the majority of it
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994) – Review
Healing can come from the strangest places, but all the legions of button bashing fanatics who walked away from the disastrous 1994 attempt to realise
An American Werewolf In Paris (1997) – Review
If your movie is a true, undeniable classic, then no amount of cruddy sequels could possibly hope to tarnish their glory. Jaws is still resplendent
Roujin Z (1991) – Review
Anime is a remarkable genre that can virtually handle any subject you throw at it, be it esoteric fantasy movies, goofy sex comedies with more
Ninja Scroll (1993) – Review
There was always something delightfully anti-social about some of the anime released in the 80s and 90s. I mean, what could be more counter-culture (and
Bad Moon (1996) – Review
Lycanthropes seemed to hit a peak in the 80s thanks to a trifecta of classics that each put the classic creature on a leash and
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991) – Review
There’s an old saying that states “what goes around, comes around”. There’s another that reads “never say never” and I wonder if any of them
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990) – Review
And so it came to pass that once Brian Yunza boarded the long running seasonal slasher series, Silent Night Deadly Night, he decreed that all
Rumble In The Bronx (1995) – Review
During the 80s, Jackie Chan became an unstoppable, innovative force in Kung Fu cinema, helping the genre to finally move on from the type of
Hard To Kill (1990) – Review
The inexorable and meteoric rise of Steven Seagal during the early 1990s has often proven to be something that fascinates me to this day. To
Two Evil Eyes (1990) – Review
Part of growing up watching the horror directing legends of the past was concocting what kind of cool shit you’d get if you merged their
Warlock III: The End Of Innocence (1999) – Review
Alarm bells should always sound when the actor who played a reoccurring role in a horror franchise suddenly opts out mid series. After all, Robert
Léon (1994) – Review
When it comes to the nature of the mysterious, almost ethereal hitman, no one has cornered the market quite like Luc Besson. You see, while
Trauma (1993) – Review
It’s something of a common fact about the career of Dario Argento that Italy’s master of horror saw something of a drop off in quality
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