Here's the uncomfortable thing about House of Horrors: Universal didn't have to build its monster. No bolts. No yak hair. No elaborate Jack Pierce transformation requiring somebody to sit in a makeup chair for five hours while another human being ...

There is a point in Mutiny when you realize exactly what Jason Statham and director Jean-François Richet are serving up, and either you’re going to grin like an idiot or spend the rest of the movie complaining that you’ve seen all this shit before ...

There is a fine line between satire and self-indulgence, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger doesn’t merely cross that line. It pole-vaults over it, breaks the pole over its knee, and spends the next two hours congratulating itself on the spectacle. What should ...

There is something inherently terrifying about childbirth, a violent biological miracle in which the human body stretches, tears, bleeds, and somehow produces life. Raymond Creamer’s Goody Goody understands this unpleasant truth  ...

What if all this strange activity in the skies isn’t new? What if humanity has been seeing the same damn things for thousands of years, only describing them with the language available at the time? That is the rabbit hole Clive Christopher happily  ...

There are movies whose budgets are visible in every frame, and then there are movies where something far more interesting is visible: the sheer determination required to get the damn thing made. Cursed Waters belongs firmly in the latter  ...

ionel Atwill is performing illegal experiments on human beings. Again. At some point you'd think somebody in the Universal universe would stop giving this man access to medical equipment but thank God nobody does because ...

Legend of the White Dragon arrives carrying enough emotional baggage to crush the goddamn thing before it ever gets airborne. Conceived as a harder, bruised-up riff on the color-coded heroics that made Jason David Frank an icon, the film  ...