What possesses a director to remake their own work?Surely the very notion of going back over old ground smacks of a lack of artistic merit,
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Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996) – Review
If nothing else, the existence of Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (aka. Nemesis 3: Prey Harder), proves that Albert Pyun had a sense of tenaciousness that
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) – Review
Sequelizing William Friedkin’s The Exorcist was never going to be an easy job as, for all intents and purposes, it’s as perfect a horror film
The Crow: Salvation (2000) – Review
It was horribly ironic that The Crow franchise should have fallen under the ownership of Dimension – Miramax’s more genre focused arm – as it,
Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (2023) – Review
Thanks to the colourful, Spielbergian tone of the 2018 Bumblebee movie, the gargantuan Transformers franchise had a chance to fittingly change it’s form (most likely
The Boogeyman (2023) – Review
When Stephen King gives out a movie recommendation, people usually listen, after all, it was his glowing words for such things as The Evil Dead
The Black Demon (2023) – Review
After The Meg surfaced in 2018 to try and take a sizable chomp out of the box office, I kind of half expected to see
Cat Ballou (1965) – Review
During the golden years of the American Western, countless examples of gun slinging, cattle rearing, train robbing and every other rootin’, tootin’ trope of the
Sink The Bismarck! (1960) – Review
A lot of older movies that chronicle the various acts of derring do that occured throughout the entirety of World War II often focused on
The Blood On Satan’s Claw (1971) – Review
When people discuss the roots of the freakishly unnerving sub-genre known as Rural Horror, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone will undoubtedly yell
The Lost Continent (1968) – Review
Aside from the odd movie featuring iconic prehistoric swimwear, Hammer’s fantasy output isn’t as generally well regarded as their horror stuff, but that doesn’t mean
Convoy (1978) – Review
If someone grabbed me while I was walking down the street and suddenly demanded to know the best and easiest way to describe Convoy, Sam
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023) – Review
When Into the Spider-Verse landed in cinemas, obviously while pulling a classic Spidey, superhero landing pose when he did so, few could have imagined the
The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972) – Review
The Magnificent Seven, in many ways, is the perfect American western insofar that it takes its mythical (and borrowed) premise and infuses it with enough
Open Water (2003) – Review
Back in 1999, a film was released that took not just the horror genre, but how such films were made and marketed altogether, and turned
Hypnotic (2023) – Review
Remember 90’s Robert Rodriguez? The guy who banged out unfeasibly entertaining genre fare on his own terms thanks to his indefatigable indie spirit and the
The Mother (2023) – Review
“You don’t know how bad this gets!” prophetically states Jennifer Lopez near the start of The Mother, the latest thriller hurled into the streaming ether
Crank: High Voltage (2009) – Review
Hollywood has a long history of directors reworking their earlier works with more money and more experience in order to realise their cult debuts. Sam
The Equalizer 2 (2018) – Review
There was something perversely fascinating about watching a man of Denzel Washington’s infinite talents stab, punch, batter and shoot his way through The Equalizer, Antoine
Dreamscape (1984) – Review
Despite my voracious appetite for movies back in my 80’s based childhood, there’s always was going to be the odd title that slipped through the
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