| 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... | |
The Juan Antonio Bayona film THE ORPHANAGE is coming to standard definition DVD and high definition Blu-Ray DVD on April 22, 2008. The film stars Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, and Roger Princep. Laura (Belen Rueda) buys the now closed and abandoned orphanage where she grew up. Her goal is to restore it to its original luster and help disabled children. She has a son of her own, and once the location is restored she realizes that his overactive imagination leads to some strange and frightening events involving an imaginary friend of his. Sometime later, the boy disappears from a party at the orphanage, which consumes his parents for months afterwards. Grappling for answers, they call on the talents of a group of parapsychologists for help in locating their son. 
