A WWII submarine being hunted by a German ship picks up three survivors from a torpedoed hospital ship, one, a woman. The crew is on edge, the new captain too extreme, and voices and strange occurrences begin to haunt the boat. Quick Review: With Pitch Black and Below, David Twohy has become the modern master
Three old men (Charles Winninger, C. Aubrey Smith and Harry Carey), with nothing to do for Christmas, toss three wallets into the snow, hoping that whoever finds them will return them and stay for dinner. It works in two cases, reeling in a young girl and a down-on-his-luck Texan (Richard Carlson) who find each other
Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen), a university student working on a paper about urban myths, investigates the legend of the Candyman. Both a romantic and a horrifying figure, when human, the Candyman (Tony Todd) was brutally murdered due to his race. If you say his name five times, he will appear. Quick Review: Candyman is poetry
The hook-handed, ghostly Candyman (Tony Todd) is haunting New Orleans and the Tarrant family. He killed Annie Tarrant’s (Kelly Rowan) father and husband, and her brother has been arrested for the crimes. Annie realizes there’s a secret that connects her to the ghost, and sets out to uncover it. Candyman was a frightening and artistic Slasher/Ghost Story,
Due to an act of cowardice, Sir Simon de Canterville (Charles Laughton) is cursed never to know peace until a descendant performs a brave deed. Three hundred years later, American troops are billeted at Canterville castle, and one of them, Private Cuffy Williams (Robert Young), turns out to be a distant relative. The young Lady
Harry (Ted Wass), an American, his daughter Jennifer (Alyssa Milano), and his new wife Lucy (Andrea Marcovicci), move to his ancestral castle in Briton, which is haunted by a ghost (John Gielgud) who doesn’t like visitors. But they aren’t leaving until they can sell it, and Jennifer finds she likes the ghost. OK, this doesn’t
School Children start talking about the urban-legend of the Slit-Mouthed Woman, who walks about wearing a surgical mask and carrying a blade. That’s a bad idea, because she turns up and starts kidnapping kids; some she kills and others she cuts so that they have the same facial wound as she. Kyoko Yamashita (Eriko Sato),
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen), known for his cruelty, particularly to his employee, Bob Cratchit (Gene Lockhart), is visited by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and learns the meaning of Christmas. This MGM, high-gloss version of the Dickens classic is a long way from its weak, 1935 predecessor. What a difference three
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim), is visited by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and learns the meaning of Christmas. This British, B&W version of the well-known story is generally considered to be the finest version by critics and viewers alike, and I agree. If you’re reading this, chances are you are well
Another version of the Dickens’ story in which cruel Ebenezer Scrooge (Patrick Stewart) learns the meaning of Christmas from three spirits. Quick Review: A garden-variety re-telling of A Christmas Carol, there are no huge mistakes, but also nothing to make it more than average. The sets look a bit too much like a sound stage,
A musical version of the traditional Christmas story where old humbug Ebenezer Scrooge (Kelsey Grammer) learns the true meaning of Christmas from three spirits. Quick Review: With so many version of A Christmas Carol to choose from, I can be discriminating. There’s always another to switch to, and I suggest doing so when this is on.