Hausu
Synopsis: How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any […]
Tag Archives: Horror
The Maid
Synopsis: Some rules should never be broken Chinese legend has it that the gates of Hell open and the dead walk the Earth for 30 days each year. Break the […]
Tôkyô zonbi
Synopsis: Tadanobu Asano and Show Aikawa star as fulltime slackers and wannabe ju-jitsu champions who bring the body of their murdered boss to Tokyo’s towering toxic waste dump known as […]
Re-Animator
Synopsis: Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders… and another one in a dish on his desk. Herbert West is obsessed with the idea of bringing the […]
Braindead
Synopsis: Some things won’t stay down…even after they die. On a quiet street, in a small town, pure evil has come to stay. Lionel, an innocent young man, is forced […]
The Frighteners: The Director’s Cut
Synopsis: From Academy Award®-winning director Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) comes this wicked comedy-thriller. Michael J. Fox stars as Frank Bannister, a small-town “ghostbuster” in league […]
Ghostbusters
Synopsis: Suit up for classic comedy! When kooky, spooky college profs Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) lose their university jobs, they decide […]
La cité de la peur
Synopsis: This French comedy parodies horror movies and detective films. It is set at the Cannes Film Festival. There, Odile, a sincere publicist, tries to promote the horror movie “Red […]
Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan
Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan, by Zeb Wells and Seth Fisher 8.25 ‘Big in Japan!’ is a book that I picked up from my local library’s bookstore as a […]
Rubber
Synopsis: Careful where you tread. Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert […]
Piranha (2010)
Synopsis: There’s Something In The Water From director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes) comes the new action thriller Piranha. Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from […]
Judge Dredd vs. Otto Sump
Judge Dredd vs. Otto Sump, by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Ron Smith 7.5 Despite its peculiar and somewhat off-putting title (Otto Sump? Say what? ), this compilation was a […]
Judge Dredd vs. The Dark Judges
Judge Dredd vs. The Dark Judges, by John Wagner and Brian Bolland 6.0 I’ve known for years that Judge Dredd is a cult classic. Between Anthrax’s song “I Am the […]
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