Tag Archives: Joe Dante

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Five strangers converge at a haunted movie theater owned by The Projectionist (Mickey Rourke). Once inside, the audience members witness a series of screenings that shows them their deepest fears and darkest secrets over five tales. REVIEW: I tend to enjoy anthology movies. It’s kind of like getting to see a bunch of little movies without …

SYNOPSIS: A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.

How things have changed. In the forties, for instance, one would find it difficult to name twenty good genre films of the decade but, since the late seventies, Hollywood has learned that their baby-booming audiences could not only handle strong horror and science fiction concepts, they craved them. Filmmakers everywhere went into overdrive. Like television today, there wasn’t a production …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ten short stories revolve around ghosts, ghouls, monsters, the devil, aliens, and ax murderers who terrorize a suburb on Halloween night. REVIEW: Vignette horror films seem to be hit or miss.  Dead of Night (1945) tends to be the film by which most other films are measured with its five tales (not all of them are …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A horror fan’s dead girlfriend comes back as a zombie and wants to continue their relationship forever. REVIEW: When I hear the name Joe Dante in connection to any film, a smile won’t be far behind. The man is a genuine genre god, and everything he’s ever directed, even the not so good stuff, has something good …

SYNOPSIS: While on vacation, suburbanite Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) wants nothing more than to fritter away his time at home — drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube. But when new, secretive neighbors move in next door, Ray and his friends (Bruce Dern and Rick Ducommun) let their paranoia get the best of them …

SYNOPSIS: Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they’ll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories, setting the stage for five tales from directors Ken Russell, Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante, Monte Hellman and John Gaeta. This anthology includes spine-tingling tales of sexy succubi, possessed breast implants, nightmarish dream hauntings and more. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre. REVIEW: Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film In a film such as this that pays tribute to the horror genre and thousands of clips, it really requires an expert editor at the …

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SYNOPSIS: Max is trapped in an unhappy relationship with Evelyn but doesn’t have the nerve to break up with her. After she is killed in an accident he thinks that he is finally free and attempts to pursue a new relationship with Olivia. Unfortunately his plans go awry when Evelyn comes back into his life as a zombie. Will he …

Indie thriller “Dark” will make its world premiere at the Oldenburg International Film Festival this September. The debut narrative feature by director Nick Basile (“American Carny”), “Dark” is written by Elias (“Gut”) and executive produced by Joe Dante (“Gremlins”).

Late last year the upcoming anthology project ‘Tales of Halloween’ was announced and even at the very early stage, you knew this was and is going to be one of the major genre projects of the year.  Some new news today further solidifies that belief.  You should remember, ‘Tales of Halloween’ is going to be bringing us tales from directors …

SYNOPSIS: “Four horror-science fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood’s famous directors based on TV’s most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue. In the first story, a loud-mouthed bigoted businessman with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks and Asians gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably …

One of the pivotal films in this horror fans growth, 1981’s THE HOWLING is going to get the Blu-ray treatment from SCREAM FACTORY and that is all good. In announcing their release of THE HOWLING Scream Factory continues its long string of awesome must have Blu-ray releases. No special features yet, we’ll get to hear about those later in March …

SYNOPSIS: Six long years after their last appearance, Gizmo & company are back! But they’re no longer in Kingston Falls, they’re in NYC and have taken over a giant skyscraper as they continue their hi-jinks. Now as they are preparing to go wild on the streets of NYC, who is going to stop them? And how?