From William Butler Yeats to Freddy Krueger and Beyond: An Interview with a True Cinema Maverick, Director Jack Sholder One of my very first experiences of quaking in my boots (er, sneakers really) at a horror feature in the theaters came in 1982 as a completely sponge-like, impressionable 15-year-old was accompanied by his dad to the local second-run house to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A reunion between two couples becomes a massacre when one of the guests meets an anonymous person online and willingly becomes a participant on a bloody path to becoming God-like. REVIEW: What if you had the power to be God? To be unencumbered by the laws of morality as you define who should live or die …

SYNOPSIS:  After suffering a miscarriage, Newlyweds John and Samantha Harris relocate from New York City to a small Appalachian town where they become wrapped up in a nightmarish tapestry of evil. REVIEW: Alcoholism, miscarriages, PTSD. Sounds like prime fodder for a Hallmark tv movie marathon, right? Except when its completely wrapped in a horror film about Satanism in Appalachian country. …

SYNOPSIS: Eternity, a 10-year-old girl, lives in a gatehouse at the edge of an ancient forest and she likes to dig for buried treasure. One day she digs up something she shouldn’t, and the forest wants it back. REVIEW: There is a perfect plan B for all those up-and-coming type filmmakers in Hollywood that is put into action just in …

SYNOPSIS: A young couple deliberately moves into a haunted house to contact the other side. Until their conduit, a painted black mirror proves to contain a malevolent presence hell-bent on bringing harm to their new family. REVIEW: It’s always a refreshing sojourn for me, as a reviewer, to head back to that old chestnut formula of the spiritually possessed house …

SYNOPSIS: The Desmond has stood empty for years. With a history of fires, murders and madness not even squatters will go there. But now Johnny Craig, host of ‘America’s Most Haunted’, is going to host a prime-time special there. REVIEW: Growing up on such great haunted house efforts as Lewis Allen’s 1944 classic The Uninvited, Robert Wise’s The Haunting from …

SYNOPSIS: Adaline’s terrifying visions bleed through from the past and become Daniela’s present-day nightmares. REVIEW: Time for another jaunt into the old-house-with-creepy-past-in-a-small-town territory. I have to admit a certain fondness for this type of material and a reluctance to approaching any new entries in the formula. The former is for the simple fact that even the worst turkeys in this …

SYNOPSIS: When a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl. REVIEW: It happens on rare occasions for film critics, resulting in a most difficult problem for them to have. The instance where a film succeeds in spite …

SYNOPSIS: Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start. REVIEW: In the annals of cinema horror, you have your smattering of filmmakers who are so good at directing chillers that they can use the format as an experimental laboratory and add elements that …