When members of his crew are captured by George Fairfax (Lowell Gilmore) and sold as slaves to Marquis de Riconete (George Macready), pirate captain Peter Blood (Louis Hayward) comes to shore to free them. Masquerading as a fruit peddler, Blood wins over the local bar girl (Dona Drake) and the Marquis’s niece (Patricia Medina), and
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
In 2031, scientist Joe Buchanan (John Hurt) makes a weapon that has the side effect of ripping holes in reality which may lead to other times or other universes. Buchanan is pulled through one of these tears to what appears to be the 1830s, where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Raul Julia) and his monster
Freddy (Robert Englund), powerless due to being forgotten, sends Jason back from hell, hoping his killings will be attributed to Freddy. But Jason won’t stop killing, which sets up a battle between the two as local teens try to stop them both. Quick Review: Freddy deserved better than this, and Jason…well, for Jason it is pretty
Confused, single mother Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) reports that she has been carjacked by a black man, and that her four-year-old son was in the back seat. Police lockdown an all-black housing development and officers from the nearby, mainly-white, town, including Brenda’s aggressive brother (Ron Eldard), over-zealously push the residents for information on the child. Detective Lorenzo
At the moment of his death, Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez), a racecar driver in 1991, is pulled through time to 2009 where his body is meant as a replacement for a dying rich man’s. Alex escapes, finds his old fiancĂ©e (Rene Russo), who works for the most powerful businessman in the world (Anthony Hopkins), and together
Years after a boy drowns at a summer camp, the camp is reopened, and young, sexually active camp counselors begin to die in gruesome ways. Is it the boy, back from the dead or someone else slicing and dicing? It would be silly for me to try and review Friday the 13th like other films. Saying that
Tommy Jarivs (John Shepherd), who killed Jason in the fourth film, is the newest patient at a counseling facility that happens to be near Jason’s old stomping grounds. After Tommy shows up, people start dying. Is it Tommy, someone else wearing a hockey mask, or has Jason returned from the dead? Set in some kind of