INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
When dealing with a five decade multi-film phenomenon, it pays to go back to where it all started
When dealing with a five decade multi-film phenomenon, it pays to go back to where it all started
A Tobe Hooper film from the mid eighties, when he was trying to mount a worthy successor to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
This late eighties slasher is notable for introducing a wealth of behind-the-scenes talent, and as an alleged influence on Quentin Tarantino
The big budget 1994 movie adaptation of Anne Rice’s classic novel. It’s a handsomely mounted film to be sure, but also a dull and uninvolving one
From Hong Kong, an “homage” to THE SIXTH SENSE that boasts a slick veneer, fine performances and some memorable shocks
A David Lynch movie that makes his previous puzzlers LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DRIVE seem downright coherent
This, the second entry in Dario Argento’s Three Mothers trilogy, is the most overtly nightmarish film Argento has ever made
The magnum opus of the late Ray Dennis Steckler, who lavished his largest-ever budget—a whopping $38,000—on this screwball horror-musical from 1963
One of the most striking films made by Kenneth Anger, a giant in underground moviemaking
One of the more notable “blaxploitation” horror flicks from the seventies, a ludicrous yet politically charged, disarmingly earnest variant on the Frankenstein mythos