Aliens (1986)
Debates may rage on as to whether Aliens is actually a better film than Alien, and I’m of two minds myself on it myself, but regardless of the conclusion, one thing is clear — they are...
Category: Horror
Van Helsing (2004)
Stephen Sommers, the writer-director of the successfully revamped creature features The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, tries to strike up another franchise with Van Helsing, another throwback to the pantheon of monster movies released in the 30s...
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Ghostbusters proved so successful in its opening week that talks immediately began on creating a primetime “Ghostbusters” TV show with a different cast. However, when profits skyrocketed over the summer, Columbia wanted a film...
Hellboy (2004)
Mike Mignola’s “Hellboy” was a favorite comic of mine for a short while, back when it first appeared in Dark Horse comics in the pages of John Byrne’s “Next Men”, back in the early...
Secret Window (2004)
Note: This review doesn’t contain any overt spoilers, but film savvy readers may pick up on some things they may not want to know. Skip the next paragraph if you don’t want to take...
Cabin Fever (2002)
As a satire of schlock-horror, Cabin Fever had the potential to be much better than most attempts at covering the same ground in recent years. As an homage, it also could have done the same. However,...
Halloween (1978)
Although Black Christmas predates John Carpenter’s film by four years, Halloween is the one that popularized the formula for almost every slasher movie that followed it, from Friday the 13th to A Nightmare on Elm Street to I Know What You Did Last...
The Thing (1982)
In 1975, while at a party for a mutual screenwriter friend, TV producer Stuart Cohen mentioned in a conversation with film producer David Foster that he’d love to break into features. Foster agreed to...
Underworld (2003)
The film is called Underworld, and that’s where it belongs, as anything this perpetually derivative doesn’t deserve to see the light of day. It’s made for one type of audience: the ones who like everything...
The 4th Dimension (1999)
After viewing The 4th Floor, the predominant question in many viewers’ minds will be, “What in the world happened to William Hurt?!” It seems that it wasn’t so long ago when he was considered one...