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...

If you believe IMDb trivia, Eyes of a Stranger (1981) was originally meant to be a more straightforward thriller; however, somewhere...

On the news last week, I saw a clip of a young man in Florida for spring break during the current COVID-19 crisis. In a sunburned, what...

Known by several names, including Deliria and Bloody Bird, I watched StageFright: Aquarius (1987) on a terrific DVD edition from Blue...

When I recently watched The Keep (1983), the biggest shock I felt was when Ian McKellan first appeared. “Oh, my gosh!” I thought. “He...

For a movie that reeks of the 1980s, New Year's Evil (1980) doesn't feel very authentic. Punk rock fans of disc jockey, Diane Sullivan...

While it's hard to imagine Christmas Evil (aka You Better Watch Out) being made without the success of Halloween (1978), it was...

In an unapologetic attempt to capitalize on the success of John Carpenter's Halloween a year and a half earlier, Paramount Pictures...

Of all the remakes I've seen and critiqued, I'm not sure there is a pair of movies as different from each other as Cat People (1942 and...

Nostalgia. Merriam-Webster defines it as "a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or...