Once again, a teen’s vision saves a group from certain death. Afterwards, the survivors begin dying in elaborate ways as they desperately search for a way to change fate. Quick Review: The fun in Final Destination was the Rube Goldberg-like death scenes. Final Destination 2 is more of the same. The dialog isn’t as sharp and the
Three renegade scientists bring a cryogenic coffin containing a woman infected with a zombie-transforming virus onto a commercial jet liner. Turbulence causes the refrigeration unit to breakdown and the woman is soon running about, turning the crew and passengers into flesh-eaters. A mix-matched group, including a sexy stewardess, an air martial, a golf pro, a
François Delambre (Vincent Price) receives a call from his sister-in-law, Helene (Patricia Owens), in which she hysterically confesses to killing her husband, Andre (David Hedison—as Al Hedison). The couple loved each other and had no problems, yet she compressed his head and hand in a press, and now refuses to say why. François discovers that before his
Martin Brundle (Eric Stoltz), the son of a scientist who accidentally mixed his DNA with a fly’s, is raised by corporate CEO Anton Bartok (Lee Richardson) as a science experiment. Martin, unaware of his past, grows to adulthood in five years and starts a relationship with Beth Logan (Daphne Zuniga). Then, his dormant mutations become active, and
A hundred years ago, a ship of lepers sank off the shore of what would become the town of Antonio Bay. Now a strange fog is rolling into town and citizens are dying. Part ghost story, part slasher, part curse flick, The Fog is an atmospheric tale that puts multi-dimensional, everyday people into a horrific
Commander John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew travel to Altair-IV aboard their flying saucer to investigate the disappearance of the ship, Bellerophon, years earlier. They find that only Dr Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his innocent daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), have survived. Morbius is studying the advanced machinery of a dead race, the Krell,
Bob Anderson (Terry O’Quinn), a recent widower, moves in to a new house and starts a relationship with his neighbor (Kristy McNichol). But the ghost of the house has other ideas. Quick Review: This film hits all the right notes for me. There are some blatant flaws (the clichéd narration, the limited camera work, the
A man (Matthew McConaughey) goes to the FBI to announce that his brother is the God’s Hand Killer. He then explains that when they were children, his father (Bill Paxton) saw an angel that told him to go kill people who were really demons. He always believed his father was insane, but his brother believed, and he has
In a near fevered state, Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has abandoned his upper-class lifestyle, his fiancée Elizabeth (Mae Clarke), and medical school to carry out secret experiments aided only by the hunchback Fritz (Dwight Frye). His goal is to create a living creature from corpses, which he succeeds in doing the night he is visited
The still beating heart of Frankenstein (they don’t say Frankenstein’s Monster; they say Frankenstein) is taken to Japan in 1945, but it is lost when the atomic bomb destroys Nagasaki. Fifteen years later, an American medical researcher (Nick Adams), his sidekick vivisectionist, and a nurse find a radiation resistant boy with a flat head. The
Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), the Wolf Man, is freed from his tomb by grave robbers. His search for a way to die takes him to the remains of the Frankenstein manor and the still-living Monster. The Frankenstein franchise had died a well-deserved death, having less than nothing of interest left (but they wouldn’t let
Arrested for multiple murders, scientist Victor Franks (Rhett Giles) tells the story of his experiments to a psychologist. He had developed nonobots for repairing and revitalizing tissue, but an error caused his subject to go insane. Frank killed him, and then brought him back, but what he got was a murderous monster. Did there need to be