Friday The 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter For a series that was always like the champagne and caviar of its particular subgenre, this 4th (though truly not final) entry in the series elevated things pretty well, partly by bringing back Tom Savini as the FX designer and partly by having one of the best […]
Friday The 13th Part 5: A New Beginning At this point in the famed series, the producers actually started toying around with a daring concept: What if Jason Voorhees was indeed dead, and the mantle of the new villain was passed on to the kid that had killed him, Tommy Jarvis? Here, played by John […]
Friday The 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan One thing must be said right off the bat: This is certainly the best LOOKING group of female actresses ever gathered together for one Friday film. From the runway-model worthy victim in the opening boat scene, to the cute heavy metal rocker chick, to the sexy but […]
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 […]