Category: Reviews

Video Dead Low budget zombie films are all well and good for young amateur filmmakers to show off their various makeup and camera skills, but since George A. Romero had beaten everybody to the punch in perfecting the formula for the subgenre with his Living Dead films (and Dan O’Bannon had added a nice exclamation […]

Videodrome Many times, the only way to make a ripple in the world of cinema is to start a revolution. You might not get the immediate response you were looking for, but time and the hardcore dedication of certain fanbases can ultimately change the game forever. As it was the case in 1983 when David […]

A View To A Kill Unfairly lambasted by many as being the worst of the series, the truth is that Roger Moore in his seventh and what he knew to be his last outing as James Bond appears to be an effort to go all out by the filmmakers to send Moore out in style. […]

Village Of The Damned John Carpenter has had one hell of a career, one of the greatest ever, but in many ways what he is and always has been was a good old fashioned B movie director, whose atmospheres and impeccable sense of style made his efforts a cut above the rest. Take this film […]

Visiting Hours Misogyny has often been said to be a VERY common and underlying factor in the horror / slasher subgenre, especially when it comes to the factor that since yes, people are brutally murdered in slashers, but usually the males (if there are any) are treated to quick, perfunctory deaths while the females (several […]

Volunteers People often forget that before Tom Hanks became the Oscar favorite dramatic actor he is today, he was one of the sharpest and quickest witted comedy stars of the 80s, and this 1985 film is sadly one of his most overlooked and underrated entries of the era. Playing a rich, snobby, Yale graduate (complete […]

Wall Street The 1980s must have been a REALLY tough time for Oliver Stone, what with the Reagan era and the booming economy that was going on, and this is certainly his “in the moment” work from 1987 where he lifted the dark underside on Wall Street fatcats who profited heavily during this time. Charlie […]

War Of The Roses This ultra-black comedy from 1989 certainly shows off the directorial skills of Danny DeVito: The shot composition and camera angles are spot on, and DeVito shows some real style in having the story play out. However, throughout the movie, the biggest problem is the one-sided dynamic the screenplay displays in depicting […]

Warlock As the 80s were coming to an end, so were most of the major horror movie franchises starting to peter out as well even as these same movies were continuing to make money at the box office. Several NEW horror films had just started coming out at around this time, hoping to capitalize and […]

Warlock 2: The Armageddon The concept for The Warlock Franchise should have been a can’t miss: An evil being who has been alive and around for Time Immortal (and might just literally be The Son Of Satan) using every opportunity that another installment in the series would give him to carry out one plan after […]