Recently I wrote about how word of mouth can ruin films by building too much hype . Let's look at the other side of that proverbial co...

"Mimic" was a surprisingly awesome science fiction horror crossbreed and its eventual sequel was a rather...um...humdrum affair,...

When a film's title begins with the phrase "Once Upon a Time..." it has a reputation to live up to grand and epic standards se...

After Dark films has a knack for covering a wide range of films. By wide range, I mean wide range of quality that goes from impressively a...

Sometimes underground word of mouth can be deceiving. Fans of a certain film will talk it up to death claiming it the best thing you haven...

To be perfectly honest, my favorite films from the Shaw Brothers are the Venom films from Chang Cheh. "5 Deadly Venoms" is my fa...

Color me skeptical, but spending an hour and a half with Ryan Reynolds in only a coffin seemed like a gimmick that I wasn't ready to j...

Once again I find myself in a conundrum. This new version of "The Woman In Black" (originally a book, then a play, then a movie,...

Why, oh why is the second of two back-to-back made sequels always the worst of the two?! Seriously, name me one instance where the second is...

Necrophilia... now there's a subject that's even too taboo for the horror genre to tackle too often. For those that don't know, ...