What’s crazy about the original 1979 Alien that like a lot of horror movies from that decade, it was originally intended to just play as an exploitation drive-in movie. With another Alien movie, Alien Romulus, in theaters, let’s look back at the movie that started it all. The late Dan O’Bannon who had worked withContinue reading “‘Alien’ Remains Iconic Horror Flick Many Decades Later”
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Rest In Power, Gena Rowlands, Queen Of Independent Films
The old saying goes, “Behind every good man is a good woman.” Well, the same can apply to John Cassavetes and his wife, Gena Rowlands. The two would marry while they were in their mid-20s and spend the next 35 years not only building a marriage and family, but also one of the most notableContinue reading “Rest In Power, Gena Rowlands, Queen Of Independent Films”
‘Conjuring’ Movies Helped Redefine Horror For Modern Times
Horror movies are usually the red-headed stepchild of filmmaking. They’re hated most of the times by movie critics. Parental groups despise them so much they’ve been successful in getting them removed from theaters, which was the case in the original Silent Night, Deadly Night. And the Academy Awards have pretty much refused to acknowledge them,Continue reading “‘Conjuring’ Movies Helped Redefine Horror For Modern Times”
‘Halloween’ Actor Charles Cyphers Takes His Final Curtain Call
Being a character actor is never a glamorous job. If you’re lucky, you get your name on the opening credits but you don’t get the nice paycheck the stars receive. However, if you’re lucky, you get to appear in a popular movie or franchise that people will remember you. Charles Cyphers got that chance multipleContinue reading “‘Halloween’ Actor Charles Cyphers Takes His Final Curtain Call”
How ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Helped And Hurt The Horror Genre
In the past 25 years, filmmaking has gone through many changes. But the one that, for better or for worse, owes itself particularly and almost entirely to one genre is the found footage horror. The idea wasn’t new when The Blair Witch Project opened in the summer of 1999. Cannibal Holocaust had done the sameContinue reading “How ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Helped And Hurt The Horror Genre”
Can Bringing Back Robert Downey Jr. Save The MCU Or Is It Doomed?
Five years ago, the executives as Disney and Marvel Studios had one helluva summer. Avengers: Endgame had made almost $2.8 billion worldwide. And the fan’s reaction to it was phenomenal. So, I’m sure they thought all they had to do was to keep doing what they were doing and it would all work out. Unfortunately,Continue reading “Can Bringing Back Robert Downey Jr. Save The MCU Or Is It Doomed?”
‘North’ At 30 Is Still Nightmare Fuel
There’s three reasons a movie like North is still remembered. One, it’s the first movie featuring Scarlett Johansson in all her young cuteness as a child. Second, it features Brynne Hartman in her only movie appearance. She would go on to gain infamy four years after this movie was released as she would murder herContinue reading “‘North’ At 30 Is Still Nightmare Fuel”
‘The Karate Kid’ At 40 Still A Champion
The Karate Kid is one of those great movies that became popular during the 1980s, then a joke in the 1990s before finding some love and attention again during the 2010s. In There’s Something About Mary, Matt Dillon’s character used the movie as a joke saying it’s a classic, but now 40 years later, he’sContinue reading “‘The Karate Kid’ At 40 Still A Champion”
‘Shaun of the Dead’ At 20: How A U.K. ZomCom Reanimated The Subgenre
By the dawn of the 21st Century, the zombie subgenre of horror was, for a lack of a better word, dead. Scream helped breathe new life into the slasher subgenre and it seemed Hollywood was also in love with remaking Japanese horror movies into The Ring and The Grudge. But across the pond, something wasContinue reading “‘Shaun of the Dead’ At 20: How A U.K. ZomCom Reanimated The Subgenre”
‘Cobra Kai’ Still Kicking, But Final Season Is Just Beginning
The first part of the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai dropped on Netflix recently. The fact that this show even lasted past its second season is a testament of how to do a legacy series the right way and avoiding that dreaded F word – fanfiction. On the surface, the series could’ve failed.Continue reading “‘Cobra Kai’ Still Kicking, But Final Season Is Just Beginning”
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