FIGHT CLUB at 15
FIGHT CLUB, released in October of 1999, was and remains one of the most outrageously subversive big studio movies of all time.
The Bootleg Video Scene: A Requiem
The greymarket video scene, it seems, is all-but dead.
Five Reasons Wes Craven was the Most Important Horror Filmmaker of his Generation
The shocking death of Wesley Earl Craven on August 30, 2015 has led me to conduct a serious reappraisal of his place in the horror firmament.
Horror Movie Mash-Ups
The genesis of the following piece occurred upon seeing PREDATOR for the first time. That was back in 1987, and I, naïve though I was back then, couldn’t help but flash back to two then-recent hits: RAMBO from 1985 and the following year’s ALIENS
1990s Serial Killer Cinema
In the 1990s the serial killer was the ideal horror movie subject
COLONY
An ultra-low budget exercise in bodily mutation horror that should please cult movie fans…provided they’re in a very forgiving mood!
CLASS OF 1999
Q: What do you get when you pair Malcolm McDowell as the principal of a school, with Stacey Keach and Pam Grier as android teachers on a killing rampage? A: Lots of ultra-violent fun!
CHICKEN PARK
An Italian take-off on JURASSIC PARK—and my God, what a piece of shit!
CHERRY FALLS
A vindictive psycho is stalking virgin teens in 1999’s CHERRY FALLS, one of the best late-nineties SCREAM wannabes
CEMETERY MAN
An interesting item from director Dario Argento disciple Michele Soavi, who seems to have at last come into his own