The Cell (2000)
Well, I guess Hollywood still thinks the horror boom of last summer will pay off this year, but people looking for a good time at the theater should probably do their best to avoid The...
2000s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published August 23, 2000 · Last modified February 27, 2019
Well, I guess Hollywood still thinks the horror boom of last summer will pay off this year, but people looking for a good time at the theater should probably do their best to avoid The...
A parody on the teen slasher movies that have come out of late (and a few other popular films like The Matrix and Usual Suspects), Scary Movie takes on the difficult task of spoofing films that really aren’t meant...
Eye of the Beholder is the perfect example of why it’s a disaster to try to make an art film out of a standard thriller. Stephan Elliott, acclaimed for his work on The Adventures of...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 12, 1999 · Last modified February 21, 2019
Perhaps the biggest problem with the faceless killer gimmick is that when you finally see who the perpetrator is, more often than not the revelation sinks the film from being effective to laughably ludicrous. The...
by Vincent Leo · Published June 27, 1999 · Last modified February 27, 2019
Treading on some serious hallowed ground here, folks. Director Gus Van Sant decides he wants the certain fruitless endeavor of remaking a masterpiece. Talk about doomed from the start! A secretary is entrusted with...
Someone is stalking the streets of New York with a small pickaxe and clonking people on the head, leaving dead bodies all around. Never fear because NYPD detective Ed Delaney (Sinatra, The Manchurian Candidate) is...
by Vincent Leo · Published April 29, 1999 · Last modified February 27, 2019
Clay is setup by the husband of the woman he’s having an affair when hubby commits suicide and tries to make it look like Clay killed him. Clay wants no one to suspect so...
Orson Welles developed the project in the 1960s but never completed it. George Miller and Terry Hayes company, Kennedy-Miller, bought the rights out from Welles’ estate. Shot near Hamilton Island. Australia. Dead Calm is a...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 15, 1999 · Last modified February 23, 2019
A psychic New England writer (Bening) becomes haunted by dreams of upcoming murders by a serial killer who is hunting down little girls. It hits close to home when her own daughter becomes his next...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 20, 1998 · Last modified February 20, 2019
…and I still don’t care what you did last summer. Julie (Hewitt), one of the survivors from the first film, tries to get herself together but is still having nightmares about her traumatic experience with...
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