Posted by willy pratiwiharja on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 In : Movie Reviews
Posted by willy pratiwiharja on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 In : Movie Reviews
 Some time after the events of Dawn of the Dead,
zombies have overrun the world. A woman named Sara sits in a white
room, featureless save for a calendar on the opposite wall. As she
approaches it, hundreds of undead hands burst out and lunge for her
before she wakes up in the seat of a helicopter, revealing the event as
a nightmare. She and three other survivors, John, Bill and Miguel, land
the chopper in deserted streets of Fort Myers, Florida
to search for other possible survivors. They try...
Posted by Horror's Not Dead on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 In : Movie Reviews
 The Film
Human Experiments is immediately noteworthy for two reasons. First, it stars Linda Haynes of Rolling Thunder
fame in one of her last roles before she seemingly vanished off the
face of the Earth. Secondly, the second lead is played by Geoffery
Lewis, whose name you’ll never remember but whose good-natured face
will be immediately recognizable to anyone who saw a movie in the 1970s.
The casting of an extremely talented leading lady and one of the
most underrated character actors of ...
Posted by willy pratiwiharja on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 In : Movie Reviews
 A nearly-invincible martial arts expert faces an unusual adversary when
he must take on the living dead in this bizarre action comedy. Kung Fu
warrior Pang (Billy Chong) finds himself in deep danger when an
assassin comes to town; it seems Pang had wronged the killer in the
past, and he is intent upon revenge. Rather than rely on his own
fighting skills, the assassin hires a wizard to raise warriors from the
dead to take down Pang, but the killer becomes the victim of his own
plot. The furiou... Continue reading...
Posted by Classic Horror on Saturday, June 11, 2011 In : Movie Reviews
 Before Regan MacNeil, Damien Thorn, and Louis Cyphre,
there was Mephisto, short for Mephistopheles, Satan’s most notorious
alter ego. Satan and his sentinels have captivated creative souls’
imaginations for centuries, but few artists have manifested those
visions as powerfully as F.W. Murnau did in 1926. After a staggering six
months of production and two million marks, Murnau’s Faust
is one of horror’s most visually stunning cinematic nightmares, an
archetypal tale of love, po... Continue reading...
Posted by Classic Horror on Saturday, June 11, 2011 In : Movie Reviews
 It's amazing the difference 50 years makes. In 1950, Edison's Frankenstein
was on the "Films Lost Forever" list. In 2003, it became
available for the first time on DVD. I had the opportunity
to view it on the big screen at Monsterbash 2003, and I can say
from the very bottom of my dark, scabied heart, it is a must
have for any monster or silent film fan. The film
stars Charles Ogle (Monster) and Augustus Phillips ... Continue reading...
Posted by Classic Horror on Saturday, June 11, 2011 In : Movie Reviews
 The central thread of Edgar Allan Poe's
1841 short story Murders in the Rue Morgue is one of mystery.
Two bodies are found, so degraded that investigators can only imagine
a killer with a "grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from
humanity". Poe's novel is cerebral, focusing on analytical
observation and the calculating power of the mind. It laid the
groundwork for Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective and moved
police work into the 20th century. Robert Florey's film
adaptation however, ho... Continue reading...
Posted by Horror Film History on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 In : Movie Reviews
 From
the very first seconds of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974),
where we are exposed to flashed images of decomposing flesh,
to the subsequent news report detailing grave-robbing in rural Texas,
followed by the oozing red sunspots of the title sequence, and the opening
narrative shot of armadillo roadkill, the viewer is transported to a nightmare
zone where usual moral parameters are null and void. That's just the first
five mi... Continue reading...
Posted by The Horror Review on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 In : Movie Reviews
 Selected in 2001
to be included in the National Film Registry, Charles Barton’s Bud
Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein is a rare breed of horror
comedy: Unlike latter-day movies of the same ilk, the filmmakers
pay their due respects in that they abstain from ridiculing the
monsters, permitting them to retain their image while issuing the
pratfalls to the comedic duo, thus accounting for much of the film’... Continue reading...
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