Paycheck Time travel stories can sometimes be tricky with having everything make sense, but this 2003 John Woo entry (based on a story by Philip K. Dick) overcomes much of that while staying true to Woo’s signature breakneck pacing and visceral style. Ben Affleck (a guy who’s taken a lot of shit over the years […]
People Under The Stairs Experimentation within the horror genre is NOT something that you wind up seeing quite as often as you would think, as once a specific formula is laid out for a certain “type” of horror film (slasher, ghost story, etc.), most run of the mill horror filmmakers tend to stick to the […]
People Vs Larry Flynt There is little doubt that Larry Flynt was one of the most wretched, vile and disgusting human beings to come out of the 20th Century, a filth drenched pornographer who was one of the first to explicitly photograph women “open” for widespread distribution and admittedly fought many legal battles defending his […]
Performance The benefits of artistic expression can be many, whether it be to expunge or exorcize personal demons in a palatable form, to make a statement on the societal ills of the time in which you live, and perhaps most of all, to look deep within oneself to seek out maybe even the darkest corners […]
Pet Sematary A horror film that deftly straddles the line between cheese and fright, Mary Lambert’s adaptation of Stephen King’s book and screenplay certainly has some highs, but some lows as well, especially when Church The Cat seems to be carrying the film most of the way. Dale Midkiff in the lead role of Dr. […]
Phantasm Both beautifully engrossing yet thoroughly frustrating, surrealistically amazing yet at times incomprehensible, Coscarelli’s horror milestone is the purest example of filmmaking of one man’s unique vision, leaving it up to each individual viewer to figure out what’s trying to be said. Though it seems at times like a parable of not wanting to let […]
Phantasm II Whereas the original Phantasm excelled in establishing a mood and atmosphere unique to the genre, its 1988 sequel takes the Evil Dead 2 route, mixing the genuine scares with a sense of fun and some humor. It is also the installment where Reggie Bannister came into his own, solidifying himself (second only to […]
Phantasm 3: Lord Of The Dead The origins of the Phantasm Horror Franchise are really quite remarkable as it basically involved a bunch of working class friends in the rural Northern California region who all knew each other and hung out together so one day they all decided to make a low budget horror movie. […]
Phantasm 4: Oblivion The Phantasm Franchise is one of the most revered in the history of horror cinema, one which spouts as its literal mantra not to believe everything that you (the viewer) sees. It also gave rise to one of the best (and most underrated) horror villains as well as featuring one of the […]
Phantasm 5: Ravager And so comes the end of the long road that constitutes the Phantasm Franchise in all of its freaky, undying glory. With filming having begun in 2008 on the original pretense of being a Reggie based web series, then having more and more scenes shot as the script was coming together, the […]