Foster on Film

Against the advice of her father, Nigel Bigelow (Michael Caine), Isabel (Nicole Kidman) decides to give up witchcraft and live as a human. At the same time, obnoxious, failing, film actor Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) agrees to take the part of Darrin in the TV remake of Bewitched, demanding that an unknown be cast as his

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

A half-vampire (Wesley Snipes) hunts the undead with guns, swords, spikes, and drugs. When an upstart vampire gang leader (Stephen Dorff) decides to overthrow the old order of their society, Blade’s job gets a lot harder. An early entry in the style-first monster film sub-genre (Resident Evil, Underworld), Blade, like those that followed, is exciting, rich

Blade (Wesley Snipes) teams up with a pack of vampires to stop the spread of a new type of undead that is a threat to humans and the old vampire order. Quick Review: If you’ve seen Blade, you know what you are in for. The action is a bit faster, the monsters a bit scarier, and

In this third entry in the series, Blade (Wesley Snipes) joins up with a vampire hunting band (Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds) to stop Dracula (Dominic Purcell) and perhaps to end the vampire race forever. With big, shiny, action films, it’s easy to ignore the skill level of the director. This isn’t Shakespeare after all, so anyone

Craig and Samantha Howard (James Purefoy, Heather Graham), desperate for a baby, go to a fertility clinic that artificially inseminates Samantha, adding the blood of The Devil. Businessman and Satanist Earl Sidney (David Hemmings) aids the couple, while Father Carlo (Andy Serkis) attempts to kill the unborn twins to stop a child of Lucifer being

A meteorite hits in a wooded area near a “typical” 1950s town. It carried a small amorphous blob that attacks an old man’s hand and begins to dissolve it. Teenagers Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut) find the man and take him to the local doctor.  The blob grows, devouring the old man, the

A homeless man, investigating a meteorite, is attacked by a small, amoeba-like blob that begins to dissolve his hand. High school football star Paul Taylor (Donovan Leitch) and cheerleader Meg Penny (Shawnee Smith), along with teen bad-boy Brian Flagg (Kevin Dillon) take him to the hospital. When he dies, along with others, Flagg is blamed,

Margaret Fuchs’s 21st birthday nets her an impossibly huge ruby ring from her archaeologist father (Andrew Keir), and even more nightmares of ancient Egypt.  She doesn’t yet know that she was born at the precise moment Professor Fuchs and his band of grave robbers recited the name of an ancient queen over said queen’s 3000

Saya, a vampire hunter in Japan just as the Vietnam is about to heat up, is sent by a secret organization to a girl’s school on an American military base. There she seeks out vampiric demons that hide as students. Quick Review: I’d like to say you should rush out and see this anime film

A child, Willy, kills his mother’s abusive boyfriend as his sister, Lacey, watches in a mirror. Years later, Lacey (Suzanna Love), suffering psychological damage from the event, breaks a mirror that releases the spirit of the boyfriend, and the killings begin. Here, in one film, is everything that went wrong with horror in the ’80s. It’s poorly

An ex-mental patient (Jeffrey Donovan) takes a writer (Stephen Barker Turner), his pregnant co-writer (Tristine Skyler), a Wiccain (Erica Leerhsen), and a goth chick (Kim Director) on a tour of Blair Witch sites.  After a drunken night camping in the woods, they awaken to find their cameras and notes destroyed, and the pregnant woman has