Critters The success of 1984s Gremlins, with its unique blend of horror and sardonic humour seemingly inspired a number of other “little monster” films of that decade. Critters is one of the best. Although its makers deny any influence it shares with Gremlins a sense of mischievous glee but also possesses its own brand of charm. This is family-friendly horror …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A sleek, possessed black car terrorizes everyone it comes in contact with in a small town in Utah.

SYNOPSIS: Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents. REVIEW: I’m a bit of a Lucky McKee aficionado. I consider his “May” to be one of the greatest and most underappreciated horror flicks of this new millennium. Its companion piece …

SYNOPSIS: Late one night on his way home from work John falls asleep at the wheel and hits a man that is walking in the road. He takes the body home, fully intending to hide the body and cover up the incident when the unthinkable occurs. The man he hit wakes up. And now John must decide how far he …

SYNOPSIS: Science-fiction becomes horrifyingly real for a park full of innocent campers, as a hideous horde of mutated mosquitos viciously attack without warning! A band of survivors flees the bloodthirsty swarm in a death-defying attempt to warn the world of the mosquito menace. Led by a brave young couple and a resourceful government agent, the group realizes their only hope …

SYNOPSIS: Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies. REVIEW: The opening credit “A Topps Chewing Gum Production” does not bode well for the film to follow and sure enough “The Garbage Pail Kids” follows through on this ill omen. It fails to deliver on every …

SYNOPSIS: An academy coed (Virginia Madsen) discovers a faculty plot to achieve immortality with a serum made from students’ brains. REVIEW: “Zombie High” belongs to that particular little subset of school-based horror/thrillers wherein the teachers are villains and students are guinea pigs. Watching it I recalled such films as “Strange Behaviour” (aka “Dead Kids”), “Disturbing Behaviour” and, to an extent, …

SYNOPSIS: Anthology of four horror tales with a supernatural twist based on urban legends. REVIEW: “Nightmares” started life as shorts filmed for the TV series “Darkroom” which were deemed too “intense” and so were edited together with additional footage and released theatrically as a horror anthology. Like all anthology films, some segments are better than others. Unfortunately, most of them …

SYNOPSIS: As a mutated, three-headed, great white shark eats its way from one end of the ship to the next, the passengers have to fight the deadly predator using anything they can find. REVIEW: Do not watch this movie. Ever. Review over. Still not convinced? Sigh… Ok, then, let me try… Asylum is known for their bottom-of-the-barrel approach to filmmaking. …

SYNOPSIS: After a programmer working on a top secret surveillance program snaps in a murderous rage, a notorious code wizard with problems of his own moves into the startup offices to figure out what went wrong and deliver the final product. But the deeper he delves into the code, the more the code takes on a malevolent life of its …