The damn doll at the center of this tale of kidnapping and insanity is an unsettling looking toy indeed. The curly-haired plastic child is always with the disturbed mother who is trying to get her dau...

Surrender. Forget the common and known world. Once you enter the wild and wacky world of Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood , life, as you know it, becomes permanently altered. There is a dream but you are...

This theatre is damned! Sorry, Aronofsky, you aren’t as unique as was once thought. Étoile reveals all the reasons why. With Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” at its center, Étoile – a rather enigmatic movie...

It begins on a beach. A woman is laughing. She’s seeing all the muscles on display; the men hulking out in their shorts on the beach. Lots of ogling is going on. And she starts to laugh. She sees them...

Without a doubt, OniTECH sounds as if it – in cassette form – was found clutched in the fingers of a well-dressed corpse that washes ashore some ashen beach on the east coast. This release is a dark a...

Chi-Town. Karate. Chuck Norris. And a killer soundtrack from David Michael Frank. Is there anything – and this includes the synthesized score – that Code of Silence doesn’t get right? It is both chara...

Because safe is a state of mind. The first warning happens right in front of the Pompidou Centre when a tourist’s camera, while he is recording his thoughts on one of the best-known sights in Paris, i...

The movie begins with a lightning strike and then another. A cascade of rain pounds against the backs and heads of a team of hikers who take shelter in a cave while the storm rages on. It is there the...

“I feel like I am stuck inside a low budget horror film,” says Carmine Capobianco as he stares into the camera. He’s right, of course, he is stuck inside a low budget horror film and it is a glorious...

“I shot a cop . . . so what!” Good citizenship. Self-restraint. Politeness. Loyalty. These four words of social graces are written on a chalkboard that four girls pass by during the pre-credits scene...

Otherwise known as the world as metaphor. When you talk about originality in cinema, you best not forget to mention filmmaker Slava Tsukerman. Tsukerman, a soviet born artist who moved to New York Cit...

Not all alien encounters will be friendly. That’s the assertion made in The Dark , a wildly uneven production that is underlined by a super paranoid-causing soundtrack featuring the spookiest use of m...

Deep in the Louisiana swamps, a strange man tackles a woman – who just stepped out of said swamp – to the ground. She is killed, marked with a hex symbol, and hung upside down from a cypress tree by h...

Women! Witchcraft! And b-movie maestro Jim Wynorski! This tightlipped tale has it all. Producer Roger Corman always has been a big fan of Edgar Allan Poe. Even before he made bank with his Poe picture...

“That’s what I call a brain freeze!” Clint Howard: the man, the myth, the legend. Only he could bring the crazy character at the bottom of the Ice Cream Man to life and he does it with aplomb, clawing...