Quality reviews of films of questionable quality.
Sometimes cheesy, sometimes brilliant, Count Yorga, Vampire is, above all, important. Continue reading...
The Oblong Box suffers from an identity crisis. Continue reading...
Kids are smarter than adults think they are. Continue reading...
The Black Room underwhelms, but not for obvious reasons. Continue reading...
The Girl in Room 2A likely began life as a different film. A Scooby-Doo-style mystery-thriller. Not an award-winner, but not the kind those involved would be embarrassed to show their mothers either. Continue reading...
After a decade devoid of black horror, twenty-one-year-old writer-director-star James Bond III’s Def by Temptation resuscitated the genre. Continue reading...
Following a string of genre-defining nihilistic horrors, director Lucio Fulci and screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti pivot to a more traditional—and underwhelming—ghost story. Continue reading...
When I first saw Shaun of the Dead twenty years ago, I thought it a great movie. Continue reading...
For the first fifteen minutes, I was lost. Continue reading...
Sometimes a single scene can prove a movie’s undoing. Such is the case with The Snorkel, a thriller from Hammer Film Productions. Continue reading...
I should love The Monster Squad. Continue reading...
This tone-deaf Paramount spectacle combines elements from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Continue reading...
