Pulse (1988)
Pulse marks Paul Golding’s debut feature directorial effort, as well as his last. His only other directorial credit was when he co-directed a three-minute short film in 1966 called Herbie with George Lucas in...
Pulse marks Paul Golding’s debut feature directorial effort, as well as his last. His only other directorial credit was when he co-directed a three-minute short film in 1966 called Herbie with George Lucas in...
Executive produced by Ben Wheatley, In Fabric is a comedic horror film from Peter Strickland, who made critical splashes with prior small-scale efforts like the crafty, giallo-homage of Berberian Sound Studio and the fetishistic...
The sixth entry in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street series promises in the title that this would be the final one, at least of those story threads that have stemmed throughout the first...
The premise of The Lighthouse is relatively simple: two men isolated indefinitely at a rocky island lighthouse some distance from the coast of New England go mad over time. If you really want to simplify...
1980s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published August 20, 2019 · Last modified October 1, 2019
Tobe Hooper directs this ambitious and downright strange effort for The Cannon Group called Lifeforce, based off of a deliberately Lovecraftian 1976 novel from Colin Wilson called, “The Space Vampires”, which has a reputation...
Fright Night Part 2 is a follow-up to the 1985 cult hit, Fright Night (naturally), and by just about every measure, it’s a disappointment. Here we find the same protagonist, Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale), as...
1987 would see two vampire movies released, Near Dark and The Lost Boys, and while the latter would earn the money and the fan base, it is the former that won the respect of the critics and...
Jim Jarmusch has taken on horror before to success with his 2013 vampire flick, Only Lovers Left Alive. This one takes his usual lightheartedly droll approach to cinema, building on the quirky, bluesy, lackadaisical vibe...
Simon Kinberg takes over the directorial duties this time out, covering ground he’s covered before in his (and Zak Penn’s) screenplay to X-Men: The Last Stand, which took from one of the most popular...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published April 16, 2019 · Last modified April 17, 2019
Rising near the top of the list of reboots that few people have been clamoring for is the 2019 incarnation of iconic half-demon Hellboy, without the formidable presence of Ron Perlman or the stylishly...
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