House On Sorority Row The horror / slasher phenomenon of the 1980s has actually translated very well to the modern day home video market with the advent of 2K blu ray transfers and 4K discs, usually involving some intricate remastering of the original film elements in order to make them presentable for today’s consumers with […]
House On The Edge Of The Park In 1973, Wes Craven made a stunning debut with his Last House On The Left, a crudely shot, poorly made film that nonetheless succeeded (to a point) of portraying Craven’s stated goal of showing real life horror and violence as unleashed by everyday human beings on each other […]
Howling This 1981 werewolf horror movie (released around the same time as the masterpiece An American Werewolf In London) certainly floats around some ideas that are quite potent (the idea that lycanthropy can be the ultimate form of breaking away from all repression), but for the most part misses the mark with some blown opportunities […]
127 Hours Adrenaline junkies are among the most odd type of people, those who take their lives in their own hands (and sometimes lose it) all for the sake of a rather ridiculous, unnecessary thrill. Oftentimes movies about such characters can be a bit obnoxious, but this 2010 release by director Danny Boyle is nearly […]
Hunger Games Stephen King’s Running Man (written under his alias Richard Bachman) was one of the all time great dystopian novels about the future, depicting a society where poor people compete in brutal competition risking their lives for a little extra food or money (with the Arnold movie switching it up to criminals competing for […]
The Hunger From Bram Stoker to Anne Rice to Stephenie Meyer, various writers have written various books about the mythos of being a vampire, an immortal being which feeds on human blood to survive. Most of these writers seem to feel that to be such a creature can almost be a fantastic adventure, never growing […]
Hurricane Sometimes it can be hard to review a movie such as this 1999 release, a film that is acted and made well enough in the service of a basically dishonest, one-sided screenplay that has since been proven to be rife with factual inaccuracies about the real life story at hand. Denzel Washington stars as […]
Hurt Locker I remember when the art of the War Movie was to make an oblique masterpiece where War itself was really a metaphor for the human condition, which resulted in such works as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Then, starting with Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, the idea was to take the genre […]
The Hustler Considered by many to be the film that popularized the game of pool nationwide following its release, Robert Rossen’s 1961 classic is actually a fairly, downbeat, depressing story about a born loser with all the talent in the world at the game yet usually comes undone by his own personal flaws. Significant is […]