In this sixth Hammer Films Dracula movie (the fifth with Christopher Lee as the Count), Dracula is resurrected again. Through a serious of near-random events, a pair of brothers and a girl they both like end up in Dracula’s castle. Are you a fan of rubber bats on strings? Ones that bounce up and down
A year after a high school girl’s mother is killed, a psycho killer in a Scream mask begins killing. The students attempt to remain safe by relying on horror film clichés. Quick Review: It isn’t as if there have been many original slasher films since Psycho, but by the mid-90s, the well was completely dry. How many
Another killer in a mask is after Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and the other survivors (David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy) from the first Scream film, but this time, it is the rules of a sequel that are being followed. Quick Review: The strength of Scream was that it did something different; outside of that,
A mad killer is sucking the blood out of young girls. Simultaneously, an officer in a fascist country is killing everyone in his way, even his superiors, and a jogger is having his limbs amputated in a strange hospital. Somehow, all of these events are connected to prestigious Dr. Browning (Vincent Price). Playing like an
When people are savagely killed by an unidentifiable wolf-like animal, Sheriff Bell (Philip Carey) asks John Wetherby (Peter Graves) for help. Unable to catch the beast, Wetherby tries to get his old friend and hunting companion, Byron Douglas (Clint Walker), involved, but Walker is only interested in Wetherby, not in helping on the case. Producer/director
The first feature-length, talkie, version of Dickens’ story in which Ebenezer Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks) learns the meaning of Christmas from three spirits. Quick Review: Yes, 1935 was a long time ago and many film techniques were not yet invented, but that is no excuse for dull acting and non-existent camera work. Nor does saying
In this comedy take on A Christmas Carol, the three spirits of Christmas (David Johansen, Carol Kane, Chaz Conner) visit TV network president Francis Cross (Bill Murray) who is producing a live version of the Dickens’s tale. I can imagine Murray and director Richard Donner talking about how wild, how edgy their new film was
Alison Parker (Cristina Raines), a model with a suicidal past, moves into an apartment building secretly owned by the Catholic Church. She begins having visions and fainting spells, and her strange new neighbors, including a reclusive, blind priest (John Carradine), a cheerful old man who loves his cat (Burgess Meredith), and two overly-forward lesbians (Sylvia
A five-man hazardous waste crew take on a rush job of cleaning the asbestos from an abandoned insane asylum. The team consists of Gordon (Peter Mullan), who can’t deal with the stress of his new baby, Hank (Josh Lucas), a greedy conman, Phil (David Caruso), who holds a grudge against Hank, Mike (Stephen Gevedon), who studied
The signs of the End of Days are appearing around the world (boiling seas, ice falling from the sky), always with the same unknown wanderer (Jürgen Prochnow) nearby. In California, Abby Quinn (Demi Moore) is pregnant and emotionally unstable after an earlier miscarriage. Her husband (Michael Biehn) is working to stop the execution of a
Nina (Jacy Andrews), a beautiful, blonde, college coed rents a room in an old estate with four lovely housemates (Amber Newman, Jezebelle Bond, Teanna Kai, Nikki Fairchild) who turn out to be a coven of witches looking for a fifth member. Soon, Nina’s luck starts turning bad, and her fiancé becomes distant. It’s clear that
Dr. Oh, a mad scientist (Pat Morita), creates an obedient, ninja “clone” (Masakatsu Funaki) to kill his ex-colleagues, Dr. Markov (Gregory Vahanian), Dr. Forster (Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld), and Dr. Hiller (Allan Kolman). The three hire Mitchell Madsen (Sam Bottoms), an assassin with a bad liver, to stop Oh. Things become more complicated when the ninja clone