Fright Night When it comes to the history of horror movies, before the various franchises, before the era of highly advanced gore and makeup FX, before the breaking down into wanton violence, the lifeblood of the genre was actually fueled by a certain plethora of ACTORS whose name on the poster alone was enough to […]
Frighteners: Director’s Cut One of the last original films by director Peter Jackson before he descended into Middle Earth, what we have here is a fun, scary concoction with only some minor flaws. In the lead role, Michael J. Fox gives us a strong glimpse at what could have been if only he hadn’t been […]
Frightmare This entry in British horror from journeyman director Pete Walker (often compared inexplicably to Texas Chainsaw Massacre), concerns a deranged tarot card reader who “suffers” from a mental illness that drives her to resort to cannibalism, usually killing and eating those who come to her for readings, which led to her and her husband […]
From Beyond The so called subgenre known as “body horror” is one that has really only been explored in the last 40 years of horror films (mostly because of the advances in special makeup F/X and prosthetics). In a nutshell, it involves the protagonist undergoing the usually horrific process of finding his physical human body […]
From Dusk Till Dawn While basking in the earthshattering success that was Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino decided that he wanted to try his hand at the horror genre, so he cranked out this script about vampires, then brought Robert Rodriguez on board to direct so he could focus on playing a key leading role, and […]
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money Most people roll their eyes at the thought of “direct to video” sequels, essentially attempts to follow up a big hit theatrical film and continue it as a franchise, almost never using any of the original big name actors or crew and instead concentrating on making the […]
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter The ambitious 1996 Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino collaboration From Dusk Till Dawn created a curious formula that nonetheless was extremely effective: spend the entire first half of the film building a story where criminal miscreants (Tarantino’s specialty) somehow wind up on the run before finally landing […]
From Russia With Love Right off the bat (with a bizarre opening sequence showing a Bond clone being killed in a training exercise), the viewer can see the improvements over the stylistically weak Dr. No: The villains (including the first appearance of Ernst Stavro Blofeld) are introduced early, and are good; the budget, locations, and […]
Frost/Nixon In bringing to life arguably the most famous political interview of all time, Ron Howard succeeds in making one of his best (and certainly to be underrated as the years go on) films ever. Howard does a fine job of depicting how in the mid 70s as the administrations of Ford and then Carter […]
