| Of all the films Dario Argento has directed, none is as elusive as his third and final fauna-titled FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET. The reasons for this are unclear as Argento was a hot property at the time he shot the film in the summer of 1971. Released theatrically by... | | As a twenty-three-year devotee of Dario Argento, I have only seen a small fraction of the films directed by Lucio Fulci. I first became aware of his work on June 6, 1982 when I saw the trailer for THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY before a theatrical double dose of POLTERGEIST.... | | George A. Romero recently celebrated his 4th decade in the film business. Originally attempting to make an Ingmar Berman-inspired coming-of-age film in the Middle Ages (SUMMER WITH MONIKA meets THE SEVENTH SEAL?), funding was (fortunately) not forthcoming due to investor insouciance and he ended up making the watershed NIGHT OF... | | HATCHET, which made its long-awaited debut on December 18 in the de rigueur “unrated” form on DVD, is a valentine for horror fans who grew up on the shenanigans of Leatherface, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Fred Kruger. Adam Green, a self-professed horror fanatic since he... | | Although it was released on DVD on June 26th, 2007, winter is the best time of the year to watch Bryan Norton’s terrific short film PENNY DREADFUL which has snagged many awards from Shriekfest, the First Run Festival, New York VisionFest, the Phoenix International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, and... | |
Paramount Pictures has spent a lot of time and money promoting the new monster movie CLOVERFIELD and the incessant advertising appears to have paid off: the film had the largest opening of any film in the month of January ever, beating out the last record set by the release of the special edition of STAR WARS in January 1997 which was $36M. CLOVERFIELD won out with roughly an additional $5M. Modestly budgeted at about $30M, CLOVERFIELD tells the story of a group of friends who try to escape the clutches of a monster that has descended upon New York City. The action is told in a BLAIR WITCH PROJECT documentary style and has drawn controversy (read that as publicity) for its poster art that is unquestionably inspired by the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001. The cast is made up primarily of a group of performers we've all seen but cannot place, including actor Chris Mulkey (who has been acting for well over 30 years) as Lt. Colonel Graff.
