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

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

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 l...

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

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

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 (R...

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

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

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 1...

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