Teen witch Marnie “Cromwell” Piper (Sara Paxton) heads off to college in Halloweentown, where evil forces plan to use her to enslave the friendly monsters. But first, Marnie must deal with bitchy college girls and other things that reach new heights of banality. The fourth outing in the Halloweentown franchise (Halloweentown, Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge,
Two clueless, medical supply company workers (James Karen, Thom Matthews) accidentally open a canister containing a zombie-making gas. Soon the supply company owner (Clu Gulager), a mortician (Don Calfa), and a gang of punks (Linnea Quigley, Mark Venturini, Beverly Randolph, Jewel Shepard, Miguel Núnez, Jr.) are fighting for their lives, and doing it to rock-n-roll.
Magnus Martel (Terence Stamp), a wealthy business man and member of a secret society, enlists the aid of his estranged son, Jake (James D’Arcy), to join a team that is attempting to solve the riddle of a box made shortly after The Crucifixion. The Grand Master (Udo Kier) of the secret society, who has lived
Another expedition up the Amazon finds a gill man, subdues it, and takes it to an aquarium. There it is gawked at by the public and experimented on until it escapes, taking a beautiful graduate student (Lori Nelson) with him. Quick Review: While it is questionable to place Creature from the Black Lagoon as a
With proof of the existence of a secret, Cambodian, zombie-creating ritual, soft spoken Armand Louque (Dean Jagger) and his bold friend Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland) travel with a team to the ancient city of Angkor. After Armand loses his fiancée (Dorothy Stone) to Clifford, he uses the secret rite to turn anyone in his way into
In a fictionalized 1930s London, Richard (Ian McKellen) murders his brother (Nigel Hawthorne), his nephews, known enemies, and supposed friends to gain the crown, but finds it hard to keep. I have no philosophical objection to transplanting Shakespeare to more-or-less modern eras. The problem is that most of the time, if it doesn’t detract from
The Ring (2001) Anyone who watches a strange videotape dies one week later. A reporter (Naomi Watts/Matsushima Nanako/Shin Eun-Kyung) and her ex search for the origins of the tape, and how to stop the curse before it kills them and their child . Horror films are rarely actually frightening. They can be sickening, repulsive, suspenseful,
The members of the boy-band Take 10 are secretly zombies with very good makeup. Once again needing a new lead singer, their manager (Adrienne Barbeau) sets up auditions where the three winners will travel to the band’s island for the final competition. Indie-rocker Shawn (Coltin Scott) doesn’t want the job, but he’s pushed into trying
Hoping to start over after the events of The Ring, Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) has moved to a small town with her son Aidan (David Dorfman), but the videotape that kills in seven days pops up again, killing a local student. Rachel destroys the copy. Aidan is then possessed by the ghost of Samara and Rachel must
Gen-Y thrill seekers watch a cursed videotape that kills in 7 days, and then see how long they can hold out before having someone else watch a duplicate, thus breaking the curse. Jake (Ryan Merriman), an obnoxious high school student, is drawn in by the college crowd to play this dangerous game, but when the
Thirty years before the events of Ringu, and eleven after anything of interest to audiences will happen, Sadako (Yukie Nakama), the evil ghost of the first film, is a meek, twenty-something-year-old who has joined an acting troop in Tokyo. She’s also followed by the visage of her evil self. People of no importance die, and the