Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on May 9th, 2002
Another recent big-budget French production to hit these shores, this, along with Brotherhood of the Wolves, makes for an interesting comparison with American blockbusters.
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on April 17th, 2002
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Fox has done it once again! From Hell is not the greatest of films, but this DVD release makes this film a must own.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on January 29th, 2002
Fred Olen Ray, director of B-movies beyond counting, strikes again, with a DVD release some steps up from what many movies of this type receive.
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on January 25th, 2002
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Before Wes Craven’s career was revived by Scream, and before Eddie Murphy’s was by The Nutty Professor, the two of them made this.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 30th, 2001
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the first Horror/Suspense film to hit the SuperBit Circuit. This film is quite good, and the disc is another great release.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on November 7th, 2001
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From the haunting soundtrack to the career-making performances from the Robin Cook’s superb cast, Ginger Snaps defines what a modern horror film should be: its artfully crafted reality skirts the edge of the mundane while maintaining an edge of surrealism through progressive applications of noire, violence, and the supernatural. The movie thoroughly involves the audience in a gruesome mockery of teenage evolution. Ginger (Katharine...Isabelle) is a 16 year old high school student; her and her sister Brigitte (Emily Perkins) are two post-millennial Goths trapped in a Scissorhands-esque suburban hell. Ginger is attacked one night by some type of creature, and rapidly degenerates into a monster. Responsibility for stopping her falls on her sister and the town drug dealer as she tears a strip through her classmates.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 25th, 2001
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It’s amazing the effect that the passage of time has. It was hard to find a series that had a cheaper and nastier reputation than the Friday the 13th films back when they were first released. Now, in the wake of the slick postmodernism of Scream and its ilk, these slashers seem oddly quaint and innocent. Watching one is an exercise in Generation X nostalgia, and not at all an unpleasant one at that.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on September 17th, 2001
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“If you have a taste for terror, you have a date with CARRIE.” So intones the original theatrical trailer for 1976’s “Carrie,” Brian de Palma’s cinematic adaptation of Stephen King’s identically named novel. This is a revenge story: Carrie is a high school student (at “Bates High” – yes this did come out after Psycho) who is tormented by her peers for her lack of physical prowess, weird family, homeliness, et cetera. Her contemporaries mysteriously overlook that fact that she is telekinetic and can...randomly set things on fire with a mere thought; thinking back to high school, I think that these two characteristics would have made her quite popular regardless of her volleyball ability. At any rate, the climax of the movie sees Carrie go ballistic and get her revenge on an uncaring high school populace and staff.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 12th, 2001
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This is something of a surprise: a rather nice presentation of a film almost universally characterized as misbegotten.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 12th, 2001
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In the wake of the successful remake of The Fly came this retread of the 1958 B-picture classic.
