Category: Reviews

Slaughter High On the surface, this 1986 release would appear to be one of the worst slasher flicks of the decade: The script and story are terrible, with awfully unfunny comic bits and dialogue that fails to capture the camaraderie among these supposed longtime friends; The acting is atrocious throughout, with most of the performers […]

Sleepaway Camp As the slasher movie sweepstakes heated up during the early 80s, several would be auteur filmmakers were desperately trying to find ways to stay ahead of the game and come up with something that would not only be successful, but also REMEMBERED by horror movie fans for years to come. This 1983 release […]

Sleepy Hollow The one thing that all the great Tim Burton films have had over the years is that so-called intangible IT factor, the thing that connects the audience to the odd and bizarre characters emotionally and thus makes the films a substantial viewing experience, and if you have a Burton film without that, what […]

Sling Blade: Director’s Cut Karl Childers, the role that made Billy Bob Thornton a cinematic superstar (and won him an Oscar for Best Screenplay) is in many ways an impressively gothic creation, and Thornton deserves credit for bringing incredible intensity to the part as well as staying in character from the first frame to the […]

Slither “Homage” horror movies can turn out to be either really good or really bad, being either a sign of a filmmaker with not one creative bone in his body making a patchwork piece of crap, or something that turns out to be clever, funny, and have at least one original idea in its own […]

Slumber Party Massacre Ever wonder what a slasher / horror movie would look like if it was made by feminists? Well in 1982 we got just that with the screenwriter being no less a big name feminist author than Rita Mae Brown. But there was an ironic twist to the whole deal as Brown had […]

Slumdog Millionaire Watching this movie, it’s pretty easy to see why the “Bollywood” style of uplifting yet shallow musicals is so popular in the country of India, since people there want to see an artificial world where everything is beautiful as opposed to the reality most of them live in. Here, director Danny Boyle tries […]

Smokey And The Bandit When Hal Needham was awarded an Honorary Oscar shortly before his death in 2013, the stated reason for his bestowment was for his innovative and groundbreaking achievements in the field of movie stuntwork, an undeniable fact for which he had singlehandedly shaped the entire spectrum of daredevil stuntmen forever. However, Needham […]

Snatch Before he sold both his artistic and creative soul for the fleeting notoriety of being married to Madonna, the fact remains that Guy Ritchie did do a couple of pretty good movies, most famously this 2000 release, a British crime caper that deftly combines two concurrent stories into an original mix. The two stories, […]

Sorority House Massacre With the booming advancement of physical media (most notably high definition blu rays), the sweepstakes concerning which older movies that (given a proper restoration) can look as good as new when viewed on modern home theater setups has skewed considerably in favor of the horror genre, most obviously that of the 80s […]