Psycho III (1986)
In August 1984, Universal greenlit the next entry in the Psycho franchise, Psycho III. Psycho II director Richard Franklin and screenwriter Tom Holland declined to return, causing Universal chairman Frank Price to hire Charles...
In August 1984, Universal greenlit the next entry in the Psycho franchise, Psycho III. Psycho II director Richard Franklin and screenwriter Tom Holland declined to return, causing Universal chairman Frank Price to hire Charles...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 12, 2013 · Last modified October 5, 2018
Carrie is an adaptation of Stephen King’s first published novel, and the first to be adapted for the big screen. Despite its age, the film still holds up as quite effective to this day, thanks...
1980s / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 7, 2013 · Last modified May 17, 2022
In 1980, the screenwriting team of Gary Travis and Michael January concocted an original horror film idea of a woman buying a house and coming to believe it’s haunted. It’s later revealed that there...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 3, 2013 · Last modified April 16, 2022
In 1957, a rural hermit named Ed Gein was arrested on suspicion of murder. Searches of Gein’s Wisconsin farmhouse revealed the bodies of several missing women, mutilated, decapitated, and their organs preserved in various...
After a nearly 10-year hiatus from feature films, Don Coscarelli, the director behind such cult B-movies as The Beastmaster, Phantasm, and Bubba Ho-Tep, helms this intentionally trippy horror comedy that is bound to become a cult classic...
Johnny Depp (On Stranger Tides, The Tourist) stars as 18th Century Maine fishing industrialist Barnabas Collins, who unwittingly becomes the object of vengeance when he betrays his servant Angelique Bouchard (Green, The Golden Compass), who turns...
When the Lutz family sold their story to author Jay Anson of their account purchasing a home in Amityville, Long Island, that they left after 28 days due to demonic goings-on, they neglected to...
2010s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 8, 2012 · Last modified June 20, 2019
A great science fiction film that disappoints by not delivering enough on its first hour’s initial promise, or the first chapter of an epic masterpiece series? Time will tell. Either way, fairly serious and...
Before the completion of Poltergeist II, MGM made plans for a third entry. As both Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams were paid exorbitantly to return for the second feature, but neither actor was...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 19, 2011 · Last modified February 7, 2019
Loosely based on the 1984 best-selling novel of the same name by John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick is a broadly dark, risqué comedy. It features a stellar cast, and Jack Nicholson (Prizzi’s Honor, The Postman Always...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.