This is a review of a “Fan Edit,” and is intended for people who are familiar with the “original” studio cut(s). I may reveal details of that version, including twists and the ending. Perfection. I’d say “brilliant,” but it really isn’t; it’s obvious. “Brilliant” should be reserved for things that everyone and his uncle couldn’t
The Grim Reaper (voice: Greg Eagles) takes Billy (voice: Richard Steven Horvitz) and Mandy (voice: Grey DeLisle) to the North Pole to prove that Santa Claus exists. But once there, they find that Santa (voice: Gilbert Gottfried) has become a vampire. Leaving Billy with Mrs. Claus (voice: Carol Kane), Grim and Mandy journey to the
Stuffy, British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson (Kristin Scott Thomas, Hugh Grant) take a cruise to India in an attempt to bring some magic to their overly comfortable marriage. On board they meet sexy, French, femme fatale, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner), and her obnoxious, crippled, American husband, Oscar (Peter Coyote), who pick Nigel to hear the
Edward Maynard (Keith Andes) hopes to prove that Sir Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher), the governor of Jamaica, is still a pirate. To do that, he joins the crew of the infamous Blackbeard (Robert Newton), who has his own score to settle with Morgan. Blackbeard also kidnaps Edwina Mansfield (Linda Darnell ), an upper class lady whose father
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
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
Forty years of Film Noir and fifty years of Science Fiction met to form a new genre (Cyperpunk). The streets were just as gritty, but those streets were filled with hover-cars. Blade Runner is a film about what it means to live—to be human—and it presents that theme with androids, blasters, chases, fights, and romance.
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