New Year’s Evil (1980) R | 1h 25min | Horror, Thriller | 19 December 1980 (USA)
My, this has always been one of my faves of the genre. It is really quite ridiculous, but fairly ‘twisty’ for a run-of-the mill slasher. Kip Niven is in my opinion, very good as the killer who switches personas to…
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Revenge of Frankenstein is the only true sequel in the successful Hammer series. It is interesting to note, that principal photography began scant days after the completion of ‘Horror of Dracula,’ and it does not require a trained eye to…
A Time For Reflecting On The Movies, A Time for Re-Inventing The Movies
This week marks the 125th anniversary of moviegoing. In 1894, in Paris, French industrialist Antoine Lumière discovers Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, a precursor to what we would think of as a peepshow decides that the future of this medium requires a…
City of the Living Dead (1980)
This film is probably an accidental masterpiece, but a masterpiece nonetheless. Fulci is one of my idols, but I don’t think he was a really good filmaker. It was his lack of coherency and almost childlike need to gross you…
The Food of the Gods (1976)
On an island, some crazy old lady and her husband found some white goo seeping out of the earth. So, they did what anyone would do–they mixed it with animal feed and gave it to their farm animals. The animals…
The Skull (1965)
“The Skull” definitely isn’t on par with the other contemporary Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee pairings, from Hammer or Amicus or whatever other production studios, but it nevertheless remains an interesting and worthwhile slice of 60’s Brit-horror. Freddie Francis was…
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
William Hargood (Geoffrey Keen), Samuel Paxton (Peter Sallis) and Jonathon Secker (John Carson) are respectable gentlemen in the community and they are devoted to charitable work. But they are actually a trio of hypocrites that go to brothels instead of…
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The evil Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) is riding through the Catania village when he sees that the peasants are dying of Red Death plague. Prospero asks to burn down the village and he is offended by the villagers Gino (David…
Paranoiac (1963)
The wealthy Ashby family grieves the tragedy of the death of the patriarch and matriarch Ashby in an airplane crash and their son Tony, who committed suicide, eleven years ago. Tony jumped off the cliff and his body was never…
Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
A unique crime story — a small-time thief (Bronson) is turned into a legend by his tough-as-nails moll (Cabot). “Machine Gun” robs a chain of banks and finally turns his ambitions to kidnapping — hounded all the way by a…
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
Director Charles Band followed up PARASITE, his first successful foray into the 3-D world, with this futuristic action-adventure film. It is pretty obvious he is going for a mix of THE ROAD WARRIOR and STAR WARS, but I’m not entirely…
Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)
This film is chock-a-block full of B-movie sci-fi gems. Here’s my favourite: They’re landing their rocket on a planet which looks a lot like a someone’s front lawn. Stubbing out their cigs, they test if the atmosphere is breathable by…
Christmas Cruelty! (2013)
“O’Hellige Jul!” follows both a serial killer as he plans for his next kills, and the next set of victims he has set his sights on. As the group of friends we get to know prepare for Christmas in their…
Sint (2010)
Sint Niklaas, or “Sinterklaas”, is a typically Dutch and Belgian tradition that occurs every year on the 5th and 6th of December. The legend states that, on his own birthday, the noble Saint rewards all the well-behaving children with toys…
Christmas Evil (1980)
his cult favourite seasonal picture is writer / director Lewis Jackson’s interesting, offbeat take on the holidays, focusing on a pathetic figure named Harry Stadling (Brandon Maggart), whose mind has been warped ever since seeing something as a child that…
Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000)
Okay, I’ll say it. This movie made me laugh so hard that it hurt. This statement may offend some of you who may think that this movie is nothing more than a waste of film. But the thing that most…
Black Christmas (1974)
Released and ignored in 1973, “Black Christmas” became a forgotten classic. The Canadian shocker was eventually re-released as “Silent Night, Evil Sight” in order to avoid confusion with the blaxploitation films of the time, but it bombed once again. In…
Silent Night (2012)
Now this is not a straight forward remake of SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT, but it does pay homage in a few scenes, if you remember how Linnea Quigley dies in the original you’ll know what i mean….its a solid film…
The Gift Of True Movie Going
On Friday all forms of social media started exploding over the last installment of season 2 of the “Star Wars” spinoff, the streaming series on Disney +, “The Mandalorian”. It was a tsunami of exuberant feedback and outbursts that I…
Wired to Kill (1986)
After a plague in the future kills over 100 million people certain zones are established to quarantine those infected. As the plague subsides these zones become hotbeds of criminal activity and essentially serve as a sanctuary for outlaws who take…