Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge Taking any kind of an established film franchise in an entirely different or even utterly radical new direction can almost always be seen as the most dangerous of ventures, as one runs the risk of upsetting both the tone and continuity of said franchise or even that of […]
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors And so, after the unintentionally hilarious homoerotic abomination that was Freddy’s Revenge, New Line Cinema realized that they had made at least a partial mistake here (despite the healthy box office) and when it came time to do Part 3 in the series in 1987, they made an […]
Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Sometimes in a popular cinematic franchise, a complete shift in tone and mood (while still retaining basic elements) are exactly what is needed to reinvigorate the series and give it a new, entertaining life. In the years after the first Nightmare On Elm Street, the films had […]
Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child Freddy Krueger and The Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise had had a nice, good long run by this point. Robert Englund had gone from being just a lightly regarded character actor to a worldwide movie star solely off of the strength of just this one character. Hundreds […]
Nightmares Horror anthologies can be a pretty tough sell since they usually involve asking an audience to invest themselves at least 3 to 5 separate times in each individual segment and of course the varying quality of those segments can result in a pretty uneven viewing experience. Oddly enough, the anthology horror films have become […]
9 ½ Weeks Erotic softcore cinema pretty much got kickstarted with this 1986 release based upon a semi autobiographical novel by one Elizabeth McNeill, a woman who allegedly found herself in a serious sadomasochistic relationship all while she was working at a well known feminist magazine, an experience she reportedly never recovered from and may […]
976-EVIL Back in 1988, when Freddy Kruger-mania was at its absolute peak, Robert Englund was actually able to generate enough clout to be able to actually direct his own horror film, and this is the result: a curio-piece that pales next to the classics (including the Nightmare films), but is certainly more watchable than much […]
1941 What is funny? That’s a question that can be answered differently by almost any viewer on the planet. Some would say it is watching two people having a semi witty conversation about everyday mundane things ala Seinfeld. Others would say that it’s humor that crosses racial or ethnic boundaries in the form of jokes […]
Ninja 3: The Domination Perhaps there is no modern practitioner of the art of ninjitsu who is more respected than the legendary Sho Kosugi, who parlayed his fame into a well remembered Ninja action trilogy starting with Enter The Ninja (where Sho played the main villain) followed by Revenge Of The Ninja (with Sho as […]