Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “After conquering the oppressive humans in Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, Caesar must now keep the peace among the humans and apes. Gorilla General Aldo views things differently, and tries to cause an ape civil war. In the meantime, other human survivors learn of the ape city, and decide they want to take back civilization …
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Key Genre Films 1980s
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 …
Read More »Cult Films: Cinema’s Oddly Fantastic
When I asked Horror News readers and Facebook friends to tell me their favourite cult films, I got a terrific response. The suggestions poured in, and all kinds of weird, wonderful and outlandish films fronted up for selection. So while I can’t deny the quality or appeal of films like Reefer Madness (1938), Citizen Kane (1941), Glen Or Glenda (1953), …
Read More »Film Review: Tales of Halloween (2015) – Review 2
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 …
Read More »Film Review: An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 2 american Backpackers are touring around europe and have arrived in a desolate part of the UK . Before long they are warned by the Locals of The Slaughtered Lamb to avoid the moors at night. Shortly afterwards they are attcked my a mysterious beast which kills one of them and wounds the other. the beast …
Read More »Film Review: Innocent Blood (1992)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger. REVIEW: Innocent Blood is a horror/comedy directed by John Landis. The performances in this movie are played …
Read More »Film Review: American Grindhouse (2010)
SYNOPSIS: A documentary about the history of exploitation movies, from the silent movie era to the 1970s. REVIEW: Before I begin let me first state that I love film history and film trivia. I look forward to the DVD extras that in many cases are longer than the actual film they accompany. I love the insights you get from directors, …
Read More »Film Review: Animal House (1978)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Faber College has one Frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The Dean enlists the help of the second Frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus. This film gives …
Read More »First Pic From The Set Of ‘Tales Of Halloween’
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 …
Read More »John Landis Is Sending Some BAD VIBES
What’s better than a new werewolf flick? A new werewolf flick from JOHN LANDIS set in the 60’s, that’s what! The master of all things werewolf Mr. John Landis is at it again this time coming on board as Executive Producer on a new flick titled BAD VIBES. Interested? Then here are the details. This one will be coming at …
Read More »Film Review: Twilight Zone The Movie (1983)
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 …
Read More »A great look at SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE
[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgypgx_full-trailer-for-some-guy-who-kills-people_shortfilms[/dailymotion] Now this one looks interesting.Got a trailer for you tonight from a John Landis produced flicked called SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE. Love the title and this one is being billed as a horror comedy. Horror / comedy can be a tough sell but I feel pretty confident in John Landis know a winner when he sees one and …
Read More »Horror Talk: 09.12.10
Hey Fiends, it’s another awesome day to my favorite month of the year, and I have so much to offer including my special upcoming Halloween Edition which will include some new faces as well some legendary ones. Look out for that! I also have some killer news, I have officially become a lead interviewer for the site, I’m so honored! …
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