Category Archives: Flashback Friday Frights

A movie like Tales from the Hood is mostly a horror flick. But just like Alfred Hitchcock, director Rusty Cundieff throws in enough humor and mischief along with the macabre to remind us that it’s still a movie and we need to relax. The movie poster features a skull wearing sunglasses and a gold tooth.Continue reading “‘Tales From The Hood’ A Maddening Mixture Of Mischief And Macabre”

Snakes on a Plane should’ve been a hit. And everyone knows following this year’s Cocaine Bear, the concept seems to benefit from the Internet. On the surface, it looked like a perfect marriage of 1970s disaster movies, most notably the Airport movies, with the When Animals Attack flicks following Jaws. It weas the type ofContinue reading “Why ‘Snakes On A Plane’ Hit Turbulence”

At 86 minutes with credits, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later was a highly anticipated movie that divided horror fans as well as fans of the original for years. I’ll admit off the bat the movie seems short even for a horror movie which usually clocked in at about an hour and a half on average.Continue reading “‘Halloween H20: 20 Years Later’ Now 25 Years Later”

It’s a law of all franchises that usually the third movie suffers a lot with quality and even at the box office. Look at Alien 3, Terminator 3, Scream 3, Mission: Impossible 3 (just admit it compared to everything since Ghost Proctocol), and even Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome suffered a little. But that one canContinue reading “‘Day Of The Dead’ Finally Gets Its Due”

With a government hearing this week where there was testimony that there are actually aliens and UFOs, it’s no better time to look at Killer Klowns From Outer Space, the cult classic horror-comedy that was released 35 years ago. It was made by the Chiodo Brothers who had been working in the movie industry sinceContinue reading “‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’ At 35”

There’s a rumor that when he was being interviewed for Jaws 3-D, Dennis Quaid, who was struggling with his cocaine addiction, responded, “I was in Jaws the what?” You can’t blame Quaid for not wanting to remember the making of this movie that almost seems like a parody of Jaws rather than a sequel. QuaidContinue reading “‘Jaws 3-D’ Is Nuts”

When Jaws was released in 1975, it changed Hollywood and the entertainment industry for the last 50 years. Many people often point to the movie as the beginning of the end of the New Hollywood era that had been rising with the end of the Hays Code. It’s ironic because Steven Spielberg was a replacementContinue reading “Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Forget About ‘Jaws 2’”

A movie like Anaconda should have been a disaster. It should have been the type of bad movie a studio makes that bombs so spectacularly executives who greenlit it come to work the Monday after only to find their parking spots painted over. Yet, it didn’t. For a cheesy B-movie like movie released in theContinue reading “‘Anaconda’ Slithers Through The Waters Of Guilty Pleasures”

Note: This focus will be on horror/thrillers that have featured the LGBTQIA community and/or have themes as June is Pride Month. In the 1970s, when Anne Rice was hired to write the screenplay based on her novel Interview with the Vampire, she was concerned about changing the main character, Louis, from a man to aContinue reading “‘Interview With The Vampire’ An Allegory For Gay Awakening And Acceptance”