Hailing from the early years of the Blaxploitation movement in cinema, Jim Brown in 1972’s Slaughter is one helluva serious bad ass. He never smiles and puts EVERYONE in his or her place. The film – a...

With strong hues of murderous reds and neon blues, Tobe Hooper’s follow-up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has always been regarded as a stylized mess. It is neither good enough nor horrible enough to...

Remember when actor/director Kenneth Branagh used to draw fiery criticisms for his lengthy and highly-charged adaptations? The monumental mounting of Shakespeare’s unabridged version of Hamlet , visua...

If people are STILL complaining about the lack of quality female-centered stories and NOT watching Marvel’s Agent Carter then something is seriously wrong with them. Marvel Studios has answered the ca...

While most of sexploitation director Pete Walker’s films ( Die Screaming, Marianne, The Flesh and Blood Show, House of Whipcord ) have been greeted with disgust and condemnation, House of Long Shadows...

…in which we meet Invader ZIM’s inspiration. While perfectly harmless, Spaced Invaders is a kid’s movie that had the potential to be something a little bit more than a silly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtl...

Andy Warhol’s comment about everyone achieving 15 minutes of fame gets put to the test in the larger-than-life antics of two grown ass men whose arguments over the ownership of a severed leg received...

Scott Cooper’s Black Mass wants to be a steely-eyed monster of a gangster flick. It isn’t quite that, though. The film, while not disappointing, is best described as a procedural pit of darkness in wh...

Chronicling Friday the 13th ’s tenure in popular culture, Crystal Lake Memories is an entertaining documentary that is as eye opening as it is extensive. There really should be no questions left to as...

The directorial debut from Brian Yuzna simply will not be silenced. It is, at once, disgusting and gratuitous and demented; however, its message about wealth and excess expands out beyond the yuppie i...

There is something insane about spending time with anyone outside of the inner family circle. Think about it. Hell, some people struggle with spending time with their own spouse and children. If we br...

Women. Madness. Women AND madness. I’m not insinuating anything here but the evidence in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth , a psychological thriller, is as disturbing as it is authentic. And, I should...

Louisiana native Mark Duplass has made quite a name for himself both behind and in front of the camera. From HBO’s Togetherness to Hannah Take the Stairs , he’s got a strong indie following that swear...

Sometimes shit is shit. Writer/director Ryan Bellgardt’s Army of Frankensteins is being advertised as a horror/comedy. It is neither. It’s just a bad film that – even with its intriguing premise of a...

While not remarkable, Lost After Dark is a somewhat effective throwback to the heydey of Slasher flicks that once made the drive-in rounds while knocking off Friday the 13th . This Canadian feature pl...