Tom DeSimone (1939- ) In 1970, under the pseudonym, "Lancer Brooks," director Tom DeSimone made the first X-rated gay feature film to...

Gamera: Super Monster (1980) is the Robot Monster (1953) of kaiju films. Both movies feature a child’s dreams and, if you look at them as...

The synopsis had me worried… “A gay bar is hit by a group of sociopaths…” For a 1983 exploitation thriller, I feared the community would...

Written by Bill Lancaster Directed by John Carpenter Starring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David,...

In 1982, a collaboration between Stephen King, hot off Carrie, Salem’s Lot, and The Shining, and George A. Romero, still hot from Night...

Yesterday, I ended my review of Grizzly (1976) by writing that for two years it was the highest-grossing independent movie ever. The...

What do I know? My persistent thought while watching The Comeback (1978) was that, for a supposedly popular pop singer, the character of...

This is the final review for my annual Countdown to Halloween. This year, I invited you to join me as I attempted to gain some space on...

I’m arriving late to this (slumber) party. As big a fan as I am of the “original” slasher films, there are several of their spawn that...

Night of the Creeps (1986) starts strong. In glorious black and white, an alien (“that experiment”) escapes its spaceship and crashes on...

There’s not much I feel like I can write about Chopping Mall (1986.) My instinct is to say it’s just good, dumb fun. But you know what?...

Surprisingly, the only time I’ve written about Friday the 13th (1980) was when I compared it to its 2009 version in an old Remake Rewind...

Driving around Los Angeles a couple weeks ago, I told my brother, "Not this trip, but sometime when I'm here I want to go to South...

Silver Bullet (1985) isn’t a bad werewolf movie, but it suffers from coming near the end of a series of much better ones. After The...

Here’s one of those bizarre coincidences that lead me to believe I’m at least a little bit psychic… After watching The Hunger (1983)...

The Beyond (1981) is as straightforward a movie as any… really. In fact, it’s so simple that you might think you’re confused or missing...

Because I am taking a different approach to discussing Halloween II (1981) it’s going to sound like I don’t like it. Let me be clear: I...

If you were a monster kid at the time and asked to pick your favorite werewolf movie released in 1981, you were faced with a real...

The opening scene of Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981) was filmed with a different director and cinematographer than the rest of the...

There I was, a still-young monster kid in the process of graduating from Famous Monsters of Filmland to Fangoria, from Universal and...