Nicholas Michael Jacobs, independent film director of Night, Urban Fears, and Tales from Six Feet Under, and Four Minutes of Terror, is back with the concluding tale in his Genevieve series.  His DIY films have been filled with disturbing images and smartly-woven haunts, teetering  ...

It’s a deadly game of bat and mouse!!! The steady beat.  The blistering horns.  That powerful theme of James Bernard’s pierces the walls of this cemetery; it is majestic even.  It sounds like a procession as the camera marches us toward the tomb of Dracula.  And then, because we’d not have it any other way, there is a sprinkling of ...

It’s East meets WestERN when Sammo Hung comes to town! With dynamic fight sequences throughout and a genuine goofiness in its DNA, Millionaires’ Express, written and directed by Sammy Hung, continues to deliver the comedic good from station to station.  It looks absolutely beautiful ...

While the majority of people probably think of Andrew Lloyd Webber when they hear any mention of The Phantom of the Opera, there remains a loyal following of film lovers who, correctly, can’t help but picture Lon Chaney’s terrified expression in his full phantom regalia as he is unmasked for the first time.  It’s a frightening  ...

In which Angela Miao, Whang Ing-Sik and Sammo Hung (in the roles of Yu Ying, Kao and Fan), coming from a small Korean school of Martial Arts, all take turns breaking boards and cracking skulls with their Japanese competitors!  And all they wanted was to start a school of their own! ...

By 1980, it was time for Shaw Brothers to start experimenting with their subject matter.  The straight-up action movies seemed to be slightly out-of-step with what audiences wanted (or at least director Chang Cheh was running out of gas as one of the most overworked directors for the studio), so the  ...

It’s the return of the supernatural to Shaw Brothers!  Well, sort of, as this wuxia extravaganza turns relatively spooky really quick-like thanks to two ornamental figures - one ghoul in red robes (Yuen Wah) and another in white (Chan Man-Na) - haunting a young swordsman (Long Fei) and foretelling of his fiance's  ...

Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers first major competitor for Martial Arts action, hit it big when they landed Bruce Lee in The Big Boss.  Could they strike again with a female leading lady, Angela Mao Ying? Yes.  Yes, they could.  It helped when director Huang Feng (The Shaolin Plot) jumped ship ...

Involving yet another cabin in the woods, Deer Camp ‘86 wisely side steps any comparisons to Evil Dead as it focuses on a hunting trip for friends and co-workers gone sideways when the murder of a Native American bartender awakens something troubling . . . which then starts hunting  ...

You’ve probably never seen blood lust like this before! Opening with an over-the-top televised gladiator battle in which a prisoner fights against an armored soldier for his freedom (and loses), Arena Wars is, in fact, the best Mahal Empire release yet.  It is charged with social commentary in which capitalism is put on notice, a robust ...