Category Archives: Flashback Friday Frights

A movie like Kalifornia pretty much breaks people down in two categories. On one side, you have the people who have a moral and ethical code that prevents them from doing things that might harm people. Then, you have people who will just do something no matter who it harms. The protagonist, Brian Kessler (DavidContinue reading “‘Kalifornia’ Is A Killer”

I’ve often been fascinated by the science-fiction movies of the 1970s. They often had a bleakness that very few other sci-fi/horror movies from any other era would’ve alienated so many viewers they’d be forgotten. Even Alien itself with its somewhat heroic ending still ends on a downer as Ellen Ripley, lone survivor is left strandedContinue reading “‘Soylent Green’ Still Hard To Swallow”

The “Twilight” in Twilight Zone: The Movie is a perfect explanation for the movie. Twilight is when the sun is below the horizon but there’s still light disappearing into the darkness. Intended as an anthology displaying the various talents of several directors including Steven Spielberg and John Landis, who were also producers, the movie hasContinue reading “The Wonderful Hot Mess That Is ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’”

Before I begin this post, I want to say that I express my thoughts and condolensces to the people of Maine for what has happened this past week. Also, this post will contain some spoilers so if please don’t read any further if you haven’t seen the movie or read the book. Stephen King’s PetContinue reading “‘Pet Sematary’ Finds New Life As Horror Classic Decades Later”

Stephen Macht is one of those character actors you’re sure you’ve seen somewhere but can’t remember. Maybe because he kinda looks like he could be Roy Scheider’s half-brother or with his facial hair, looks like Fred Ward, another character actor who never really achieve leading man status. In The Monster Squad, Macht played the JimContinue reading “Outrageous Performances Breathe Life Into B-Movie ‘Graveyard Shift’”

Some things just don’t work out the way filmmakers intend. You need only to look at the Halloween or Terminator franchises to wonder what went wrong and what were they thinking when they greenlit the movie. The original Friday the 13th was a surprise hit piggy-backing (and some might say ripping off) the success ofContinue reading “‘Jason Live’ Gives Franchise Its Final Decent Sequel Before It Goes To Hell”

What is it about spiders that scare some of us? Is it those eight hairy legs or the way they have fangs that you can see on some species? Or it could be the way they wrap their prey up in their webs to suck their blood. Even in Charlotte’s Web, there was something sinisterContinue reading “‘Arachnophobia’ Spins A Web Of Chills, Thrills And Funny Feels”

Last month, Dark Castle Entertainment announced that a series is in the planning stages for the 2001 movie THIR13EN Ghosts, or Thirteen Ghosts and 13 Ghosts, as it’s also known. The movie was a remake of the 1960 William Castle orgin, speerheaded by the production company that was formed by Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis andContinue reading “‘THIR13EN Ghosts’ Deserves A 2nd Look”

Ghost Ship is one of those movies you’d find yourself staying up late to watch in the early 2000s because you had some bad indigestion from supper or you slept too late on a weekend morning and worried about the week ahead at work. It’s starts off wonderful with a B-movie horror style and thenContinue reading “‘Ghost Ship’ Gets Lost In Sea Of Cliches”

When Super Troopers opened in the middle of February of 2002, America was still reeling from the aftermath of 9/11 and the impending threat of a war was looming. No one had anticipated that an obscure comedy troupe that had formed at Colgate University in the late 1980s was going to give us the laughsContinue reading “‘Club Dread’ Offers No Frills, Some Thrills But Lacks Cool Chills”