The fearless knight, Vlad (Gary Oldman), returns home from protecting Christendom to find his wife dead. Cursing God, he becomes a vampire. Four hundred years later, he decides to move to London and finds his dead wife reincarnated as Mina Murray (Winona Ryder). Opposing him are members of polite society including the vampire expert, Van
One hundred years ago, the youthful vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing (Rhett Giles) killed Dracula, but failed to protect his wife from a lesser vampire prince, Sebastien (Andreas Beckett). This caused Van Helsing to make a deal with the Church, making him immortal as long as a vampire prince survives. Since that time, he has
The vampires have decided to join human society and become just another racial group. However, murder disrupts the political system and a mix matched pair of police, one vampire (Adrian Paul), one human (Bokeem Woodbine), must solve the crimes. An astonishingly bad film. Now why do the vampires want to join this future society that’s
The Monster (Boris Karloff), having survived the fire at the mill, wanders the nearby forest, hunted by villagers, until he meets a blind hermit (O.P. Heggie), who treats him well and teaches him to speak. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) also survived the fire, but weakened, and is being nursed back to health, both physically and
Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) and Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) are back, not just to re-animate the dead, but to create new life. As if there weren’t enough problems inherent in that, the evil Dr. Hill (David Gale) is also back, along with a pack of zombies. Quick Review: How did these boys get jobs at the
A man who may be Elvis (Bruce Campbell) joins up with one who almost certainly isn’t JFK (Ossie Davis) to save the inhabitants of their Texas nursing home from a soul-sucking mummy. How to make a cult film: 1—Start with a zany idea; 2—Add cultural references and in-jokes; 3—Put in some overly-serious, angst-filled revelations from
Valley-Girl Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is the chosen one, the vampire slayer, except she doesn’t know it and instead spends her time shopping and cheerleading. Then her “watcher” (Donald Sutherland) comes to town to train her before the master vampire, Lothos (Rutger Hauer) kills her. Teaming up with rebel-teen, Pike (Luke Perry), Buffy attempts to stop the vampire
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