Book Review: Alien 3 by Pat Cadigan, based on the Unproduced First-Draft Screenplay by William Gibson
Alien 3 has been saddled with challenges since it was first announced. Multiple directors and screenplay efforts came forward, and ...
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Book Review: Alien: Into Charybdis by Alex White
There's a tendency in the Alien universe for humans to try to tame/control the chitinous ebony extraterrestrial monsters, and it ...
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SXSW 2021 Movie Review: Alien On Stage: Unlikely Heroes Played by Even Unlikelier Heroes
The movie Alien is defined by a number of characteristics -- high tension, elaborate special effects, a grim tone, and ...
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Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story Movie Review: A Retrospective Lead-in to an Anticipated Remake
With the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake dropping in a couple weeks (September 4, 2020 to be exact), what ...
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Book Review: Alien: 40 Years 40 Artists by Various
I took the opportunity to review Alien: 40 Years 40 Artists because I'm an Alien nut, then realized I don't really know anything about ...
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Book Review: Aliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler
I've been riding the Alien train for the better part of 40 years now, and through the franchises high points ...
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Memory: The Origins of Alien Movie Review: From Whence a Legend Came
I've seen many making-of and behind-the-scenes featurettes for movies before, especially ones with elaborate special effects. I've seen documentaries about ...
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UglyDolls Sing-Along Edition Blu-ray Review: A Kids Movie, Through and Through
There are two kinds of movies for children, as I see it. First, there are ones with subtlety and nuance ...
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Streets of Fire Blu-ray Review: Rock and Roll Dreams Come True
I first heard of 1984's Streets of Fire sometime in the last few years, which surprised me given I spent ...
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The Transformers: The Movie Review: Still Got the Touch
On August 8, 1986, the original Transformers lit up the silver screen for the first time in The Transformers: The ...
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Book Review: Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White
How much you come away from a story loving or loathing a character is a testament to how well they ...
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space Blu-ray Review: Because Killer Klowns Not from Outer Space Simply Wouldn’t Sell
Cream pies that melt the flesh off a person. Balloon animal hunting dogs. Locust popcorn. Cotton candy cocoons. Monster marionettes. ...
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The Crazies (1973) Blu-ray Review: The Best Kind of Crazy
In 1968, George A. Romero made a name for himself and essentially created the zombie genre with Night of the ...
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Victor Crowley Blu-ray Review: Why, Oh Why, Do They Keep Going into That Swamp?
If it's been said once, it's been said a thousand times -- don't go into Honey Island Swamp in Louisiana ...
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Psychotic! Movie Review: Cheech and Chong’s Millennial Mass Murder Misadventure
I remember how horror movies that came out when I was growing up had a kind of message -- that ...
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Book Review: Aliens: Bug Hunt, Edited by Jonathan Maberry
Each film in the original Alien trilogy represents a unique approach to science fiction. Alien took sci-fi and suspense and ...
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Book Review: Aliens: The Set Photography by Simon Ward
The movie Aliens turned 30 recently, and there are rumblings of another movie in the Alien universe in the works, ...
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Hellraiser: The Scarlet Box Trilogy Blu-ray Review: A Puzzle Box Worth Solving
Bringing back 1980s horror is all the rage lately. It's hard to swing a dead cat without hitting reboots of ...
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Girl in Woods DVD Review: Bring a Map
Girl in Woods. The title kind of tells you the gist of it, no? Eh, not exactly. Girl Stranded in ...
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Microwave Massacre Blu-ray Review: Surely Someone Will Enjoy This
Microwave Massacre tells the tale of Donald (Jackie Vernon), a construction worker with simple tastes driven mad by his wife's ...
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Book Review: Firefly: The Gorramn Shiniest Dictionary and Phrasebook in the ‘Verse
I missed the Firefly bandwagon back when it initially aired, probably because I didn't have cable at the time or ...
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Dangerous Men Blu-ray Review: Professionally, Thoroughly Terrible
Back in 2005, Dangerous Men had an extremely limited release -- the writer/director/composer/costume designer/etc. John S. Rad spent thousands of ...
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Deathgasm Blu-ray Review: Good, Brutal Fun
Growing up, I remember hearing some adults referring to heavy metal music (and its offshoots) as "devil music." In Deathgasm, ...
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The Funhouse Massacre Movie Review: They Bled, I Laughed
Sometimes you root for the protagonists in a horror movie, sometimes you root for the killer(s). However, it's rare to ...
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Book Review: Alien Next Door by Joey Spiotto
In a most unexpected crossover, Joey Spiotto combines murderous monsters with children's books in Alien Next Door: In Space, No ...
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Eaten Alive Blu-ray Review: Not Nearly As Good As the Movies From Which It Draws Its Inspiration
Back in 1975, the world was introduced to Spielberg's screen adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel Jaws. Mardi Rustam, Tobe Hooper, ...
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Psycho Beach Party Blu-ray Review: The Lovechild of Norman Bates, Gidget, and Mrs. Vorhees
Psycho Beach Party bills itself as "a 50's psychodrama, a 60's beach movie, and a 70's slasher film" [sic]. The ...
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I Am FEMEN DVD Review: Sex Sells Everything, Perhaps Even Revolutions
The first time I heard of the half-naked female activism group FEMEN back in 2013, it was largely by accident, ...
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Shark Blu-ray Review: Swim Along with Charismatic Killers
Fresh off reviewing BBC's Planet Ant, I find myself confronted with a series about a much larger, deadlier animal up ...
Read More Planet Ant DVD Review: Tiny Social Wonders
Planet Ant acts as part of a special season of BBC Four programs that originally aired starting in 2013, and ...
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Zombeavers DVD Review: Three Ladies Tending to Their Rotting Beavers
The Horror Comedy is a rather well explored genre at this point. From more goofy efforts like Young Frankenstein and ...
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Society (1989) Blu-ray Review: Nice Buildup to the Impressively Grotesque
Having never seen it, I read the synopsis for 1989's Society and thought, "Yeah, that could be interesting." Then I ...
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Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World Movie Review: Engaging, Affecting, Poignant
The late Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger. Creator of the eponymous alien from Alien. Master of biomechanical macabre artwork. He seemed ...
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Hans Crippleton: Talk To the Hans Movie Review: It’s So Good, I Almost Hated It
Hans Crippleton: Talk to the Hans opens with an introduction by Barnaby Hunt (Andy Hankins) to Horror Hunts, Hunt's macabre-flavored ...
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Memory Lane (2012) DVD Review: Ambitious but Lacks Polish
The promotional material for Memory Lane called down the thunder by comparing itself to the likes of Primer and Memento. ...
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WolfCop DVD Review: Bloody, Sexy, Crazy, and Furry
A movie like WolfCop doesn't need a lot of explanation -- the title kind of tells you everything you need ...
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Crazy Bitches Movie Review: Women Behaving Badly, and Paying for It
Jane Clark's Crazy Bitches describes itself as a "horror comedy sex romp." It's definitely at least two of those things. ...
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Stonehearst Asylum Blu-ray Review: Might Make Poe Proud
Coming this week to a retailer near you is Stonehearst Asylum, a 19th Century thriller of sorts from Brad Anderson, ...
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James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D Blu-ray Review: What Goes Down Goes Waaay Down
I watched Deepsea Challenge 3D a few nights ago (though decidedly in 2D as I lack the necessary equipment for ...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 40th Anniversary Edition DVD Review: The Best It’s Ever Been
I've seen The Texas Chain Saw Massacre twice in my life now. The first was sometime in the 1990s, as ...
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Hugh Hefner DVD Review: He’s Just Doing What He Loves
Tony Palmer's 1973 Film About Hugh Hefner, the Founder and Editor of Playboy -- henceforth known as Hugh Hefner -- ...
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Good People Blu-ray Review: Good People, So-So Movie
Good People treads the rather well worn theme of greed making good people turn bad, greed specifically in this case ...
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Come Morning Blu-ray Review: Hopefully I’ll Forget That I Watched It, Come Morning
Come Morning has been compared to A Simple Plan, which was a movie I enjoyed a great deal. Simple Plan's ...
Read More 42nd Street Forever: The Peep Show Collection, Volume 1 DVD Review: Show Some Respect for Your Elders
When I first spun this disc up, I wasn't sure what to expect. I always had this impression of a ...
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Seven Psychopaths DVD Review: It’s Like Adaptation Meets Fight Club
Seven Psychopaths centers around Marty (Colin Farrell), a struggling Hollywood screenwriter overdue to finalize his next project which he has ...
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RiffTrax Live!: Godzilla (1998) Review: Catastrophic Laughs
The RiffTrax boys are at it again. This time, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, and Mike Nelson have chosen to skewer ...
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Alive Inside Movie Review: Where There Is Music, There Is Life
"They're very musical people, aren't they?" quips Randolph in 1983's Trading Places. While he intended it as a racial and/or ...
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GMO OMG Movie Review: What Are You Putting in Your Mouth?
Jeremy Seifert is your every-man American. Wife, kids, and concerned about the well being of his family. He tries to ...
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Underwater Dreams Movie Review: Good in Spite of Its Marketing
The synopses for the documentary Underwater Dreams talk about undocumented Mexican high school students building an underwater robot for a ...
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RiffTrax Live!: Sharknado Review: Wisecracks That Cut Deeper Than Shark Bites
RiffTrax was borne out of the '90s cult hit show Mystery Science Theater 3000 where three smart-alecks would snipe witty, ...
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RoboCop (2014) Blu-ray Review: Let’s Hope They Don’t Remake RoboCop 2
The original RoboCop had an interesting mix of satirical social commentary, snarky jabs at the bigger-is-better consumerism of its era, ...
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13 Sins Blu-ray Review: Borrowing from the Best
The Game. A Simple Plan. Fight Club. Eagle Eye. Saw. If you liked any or all of these movies, there's ...
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Death Spa Blu-ray Review: Light on Creativity, Heavy on Cringe-Worthy Acting
Some horror movies take themselves seriously and deliver the goods in dramatic and spectacular fashion, whether that be something like ...
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3 Days to Kill (2014) Blu-ray Review: Not As Advertised
The first hurdle I had to clear when spinning up 3 Days to Kill was reminding myself that it has ...
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Trust Me (2014) Movie Review: Jerry Maguire with an Unfortunate Ending
To review the story of Trust Me without addressing the ending is to overlook perhaps the most glaring issue in ...
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An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story DVD Review: Justice Prevails
An Unreal Dream recounts the story of Michael Morton, a man who kissed his wife and son goodbye before heading ...
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Knights of Badassdom Blu-ray Review: Verily Indeed
Knights of Badassdom is a horror comedy in the vein of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil or ThanksKilling. It never ...
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Monsters: The Complete Series DVD Review: Another Great Horror Anthology
I've always been a fan of horror, suspense, thrills, and clever plot twists, but have always found it more satisfying ...
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After the Dark Movie Review: This is What “Trying Too Hard” Looks Like
I feel like I was just lied to. The pitch for After the Dark started with, "Faced with an impending ...
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Book Review: Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon
Tim Lebbon's Alien: Out of the Shadows kicks off a trilogy of books set around the events of the Alien ...
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Blu-ray Review: A Must-Own for Any Nightmare Fan
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy was originally released on DVD back in 2010. It's received a proper HD ...
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Runner Runner Blu-ray Review: I Fold
Runner Runner isn't a poker movie. You'll think it's a poker movie from the trailers and the synopsis and the ...
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Maidentrip Movie Review: A Journey of Both Personal and Historical Significance
Maidentrip is director Jillian Schlesinger's documentary/compilation of the story of Laura Dekker, the teenage adventurer who sought to become the ...
Read More La Notte Criterion Collection DVD Review: They Don’t Make ‘Em Like This Anymore
La Notte is definitely a film from a different era where plots were not entirely clear until the third act, ...
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Murder University DVD Review: Cyanide Capsule Sold Separately, Unfortunately
Murder University wasn't satisfied with just being bad. Oh no. It strove to be so horrendous that I'm still a ...
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The Fly (1958) Blu-ray Review: A Classic Reborn in HD
Between The Fly (1958) and The Fly (1986), you couldn't have two films that take more different approaches to the ...
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ThanksKilling 3 DVD Review: What the Hell Did I Just Watch?
When a friend asked what I thought of ThanksKilling 3, after unscrewing the puzzled look off my face, I said, ...
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Frankenstein’s Army DVD Review: Things That Go Bump, Boom, Chop, Slice, Ratatatat, and Stab in the Night
After reviewing the nigh unwatchable War of the Dead, you'd think me a fool to want to watch another World ...
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Hatchet III Blu-ray Review: The Proper End to a Trilogy
Back in 2006, Adam Green set out with Hatchet to recapture the 1980's campy gory horror vibe established by iconic ...
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From the Head Movie Review: What Happens in the Bathroom, Stays in the Bathroom
If you want to see truly raw, unadulterated portrait of humanity, you don't go to a church or a library. ...
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The Life After Death Project DVD Review: An Academic Approach to the Afterlife
Paul Davids' Life After Death Project has had an interesting stay in my house. Hearing it was a SyFy project ...
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Hitchcock (2012) Blu-ray Review: A Legend Plays a Legend
Make no mistake: Anthony Hopkins has some acting chops. He's brought to life some of the most memorable, likeable, and ...
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Pawn (2013) Blu-ray Review: Intensity That Just Won’t Quit
Few movies can tie up an ending as neatly and shockingly as Se7en did, with everything coming to a head, ...
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Tai Chi Hero Movie Review: A Worthy Successor
I almost made a big mistake going into watching Stephen Fung's Tai Chi Hero -- I nearly disregarded the prequel, ...
Read More Great Barrier Reef Blu-ray Review: Keeping the Streak Alive
BBC Earth has been on a roll lately. Among others, they've hit us with Africa, One Life, and The Blue ...
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Broken City DHD Review: Taut Noir Thriller Debuts in a New Format
Broken City became available for purchase last week, even though the Blu-ray and DVD aren't due out until closer to ...
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Woochi: The Demon Slayer Blu-ray Review: Rebranding Gone Awry
The 2009 Korean-folklore-inspired box office hit Jeon Woochi: The Taoist Wizard has been retitled Woochi: The Demon Slayer and landed ...
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Stitches Blu-ray Review: An Irish Horror Spoof That Needs Some Polish
After the titular Stitches the Clown (Ross Noble) shows up late for a routine kids' birthday party, he ends up ...
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This Is 40 Blu-ray Review: An Endearing Look at Middle Age
Some have lambasted This Is 40 for not having a strong central storyline. Guess what? Neither does real life. Some ...
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Spiders (2013) DVD Review: It’s Only Bad If You Watch It
I realize the irony (and possibly the hypocrisy) in bashing a sci-fi horror movie for being unrealistic or inconsistent, but ...
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The Blob (1958) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Oldie but Goodie Returns in High Def
Watching The Blob (1958) and then watching The Blob (1988) reveals much about how American culture changed over three decades. ...
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Africa (2012) Blu-ray Review: Remarkable, Vast, Deadly Wilderness, Now in High Definition
Sir David Attenborough and the BBC Earth team are at it again, capturing some unbelievable footage in high definition and ...
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Deadfall (2012) Blu-ray Review: Nothing New Here, and Not Especially Well Recycled
Deadfall reminded me of a few other movies: The Ref (1994) for its hostage situation over the holidays, A Simple ...
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Bath Salt Zombies DVD Review: This Is Not the Dustin Mills Flick You’re Looking For
As you might remember, I found much to like about Dustin Mills' Zombie A-Hole, so I went into his flick ...
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Sushi Girl Blu-ray Review: Reservoir Dogs’ and The Usual Suspects’ Slightly Underdeveloped Lovechild
How's this for a pitch: Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Candyman (Tony Todd), Atreyu (Noah Hathaway), Donnie Darko's Frank the Demonic ...
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Compliance DVD Review: It’d Be Awful If It Weren’t True
Compliance chronicles a day in the life of Becky (Dreama Walker), who went to work at her fast-food job like ...
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End of Watch Blu-ray Review: Or, Training Day 2
At its core, End of Watch is a gritty buddy cop movie. Lots of buzzwords leap out of the packaging ...
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House at the End of the Street Blu-ray Review: Not Befitting of the Talent It Attracted
House at the End of the Street starts out strong. You witness the murder of two parents by their deranged ...
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War of the Dead Blu-ray Review: It Forgot to Make Me Care
When a marketer finds it necessary to promote a movie based on the fact that it is “the most expensive ...
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Osombie DVD Review: Good Dumb Fun
Remember that time a dumb action movie got a great metascore on Metacritic or average review on IMDB? Yeah, me ...
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The Good Doctor Blu-ray Review: I Cannot Understate How Unexciting This Is
The Good Doctor tells the story of Martin Blake (Orlando Bloom) who seeks to be the titular good doctor, but ...
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The Night of the Devils (1972) Blu-ray Review: Still Good, 40 Years Later
If there's one thing that scary movies have taught us, it's that if someone's car breaks down in the middle ...
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The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985) Collector’s Edition DVD Review: Still Good for Fans; An Intro to Twain for Newbies
I'm pretty sure that at some point growing up, I saw 1985's The Adventures of Mark Twain, but I don't ...
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Rudyard Kipling’s Mark of the Beast (2012) DVD Review: It’ll Make a Nice Coaster
There are two kinds of good horror movies. The first is the one that offers genuine scares, relying on excellent ...
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The Ice House (1997) DVD Review: A Twisty Mystery Sporting a Young James Bond
In the U.S., it wouldn't surprise me to hear that people only know Daniel Craig as James Bond and possibly ...
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G.I. JOE: Renegades: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: It Seems You Can, In Fact, Go Home Again
Reviving 1980s cartoon franchises continues to be all the rage. Transformers managed to garner interest and ticket sales at the ...
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Tight DVD Review: Can Porn Stars Become Rock Stars?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to give instruments to four girls who bang on camera for ...
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The Babymakers Blu-ray Review: Finally, A Lifetime Movie Made for Men
The guys behind the comedy team Broken Lizard (Jay Chandrasekhar, Erik Stolhanske, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter) have a ...
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Surviving Progress DVD Review: How to Temper a Double-Edged Sword
Surviving Progress takes a look at the advancements human beings have made over the last few thousand years, what our ...
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Snow White and the Huntsman Blu-ray Review: A Visual Spectacle, But Not Quite a Classic Reborn
It’s been many years since I saw the Disney incarnation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, so the first ...
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Total Recall (2012) Movie Review: Get Your Ass To, Well, Britain, I Guess
There are a few iconic things that come to mind when someone mentions Total Recall (1990) — Mars, over-the-top effects, ...
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Zombie A-Hole DVD Review: A Worthwhile Throwback to Less-Than-Serious Horror Movies of Yore
Having recently reviewed Richard Griffin’s The Disco Exorcist, I initially mistook Dustin Mills’ Zombie A-Hole as having been a creation ...
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Jay and Silent Bob Get Old: Tea Bagging in the UK DVD Review: Adding Sights to the Clerks’ Podcast’s Sounds
What happens when Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith take their podcast on the road to the United Kingdom? You hear ...
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Scalene Movie Review: Crazy Women Desperately Seeking Justification
When the credits rolled on Scalene, groans could be heard throughout my living room. Why? Because it took us on ...
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The Disco Exorcist Movie Review: A Strangely Entertaining Highlight Reel of ’70s Cliches
Fade in on lava lamp and reel to reel, plenty of dust and lines tarnishing the film print, scratchy audio ...
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A Necessary Death DVD Review: How Do You Film Someone Who Wants to Kill Themselves?
”Recovered Footage” movies — ones shot with consumer-grade cameras made to look like home movies, films like The Blair Witch ...
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