- The Masque Of The Red Death (1964): 7/10 http://www.filmsquish.com/guts/files/images/The-Masque-of-the-Red-Death-e1342015246374.jpg More vintage Vincent, with Mr. Price as a cruel, Satan-worshipping prince in a land plagued by the Red Death treating his servants and the lowly townspeople as mere t...

- Tusk (2014): 0/10 http://upload.aflamhq.com/82262533_AflamHQ.com.jpg Not requiring a review so much as an autopsy, Tusk is one of the worst films I have been in recent memory, a witless horror/comedy with no scares and no laughs, a one-joke podcast reference stretched out for 104 interminable minu...

- Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978): 10/10 https://trekkerscrapbook.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/body20.jpg One of the best remakes ever done, Philip Kaufman's 1978 version of the 1956 original (inferior re-remakes would follow in 1994 and 2007) manages to trump the original in sheer, mounting dr...

You are seemingly on an island there with CRIMSON PEAK. I will get to it eventually! I was quite delighted by it. I can imagine why it's tanking at the box office, though...too genteel and "not scary enough" (i.e. subwoofer jump-cuts every thirty seconds) for the hardcore horror buffs, an...

- Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971): 7.5/10 https://drfreex.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/lets-scare-jessica-to-death-jessica.jpg Eerie little number about Jessica (Zohra Lampert) -- recently released from a mental hospital for unspecified reasons -- who accompanies her husband (Barton Heyman) and f...

- Crimson Peak (2015): 9.5/10 https://needabiggerblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/crimson-peak.jpg Ravishingly gorgeous supernatural period romance is probably the closest Guillermo Del Toro has come to evoking the spirit of his Spanish-language films in America, with aching melancholy sharing the f...

- Cronos (1993): 8/10 http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llnt6nVCVr1qbezvqo1_500.jpg The debut feature of Guillermo Del Toro, Cronos is about the owner of a Mexican antique shop named Jesus Gris (Frederick Luppi) who discovers an odd, egg-shaped mechanical device hidden inside an ancient statue. Rese...

- Insidious Chapter 3 (2015): 4/10 http://cdn3-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/2015/06/Specs-and-Tucker-Insidious-Chapter-3-Dermot-Mulroney-Angus-Sampson-Leigh-Whannell.jpg Rote prequel to the previous Insidious films feels like reheated leftovers, and without James Wan behind the camera (screenw...

Yeah we def don't agree there. You'd rather watch GHOSTS OF MARS? I'd rather watch paint dry. That's his worst film by a wide margin IMO. Watching all of the Carpenter flicks I hadn't seen up until that point last year and earlier this year, I was expecting the worst from Ghosts Of Mars , consideri...

Ugh...watched Carpenter's Village Of The Damned for the first time earlier this year, and HATED it. :? Aside from a nice performance by Reeves (his last before his riding accident), it was totally bereft of suspense, bizarrely cast (Kirstie Alley as a sinister government agent?!) and just overall la...

- Scanners (1981): 7.5/10 http://www.cinemablend.com/images/sections/66440/scanners_66440.jpg David Cronenberg's first breakout commercial success, Scanners is still within the early "body horror" phase of his career, with sickeningly effective makeup and gore effects (even if you've never...

I always thought that if the movie was good, audiences would be interested in seeing it. Plenty of good -- even great -- movies have tanked at the box office over the years...look at The Shawshank Redemption , often occupying the top spot in the IMDB's list of the 250 best movies of all time, and y...

- You're Next (2013): 7.5/10 http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/movie_review/you-re-next-20130823/20130822-youre-next-624x420-1377184358.jpg Tidy home-invasion thriller is, frankly, full of genre tropes you've seen many, many times before (scary masks! Boarding up the house and setting boo...

Yeah, when it comes to the Carpenter/Romero/Craven "Masters Of Horror" troika, I'd rank the three's overall output in that order. Shame that Romero's churned out nothing but increasingly wan Dead sequels over the last fifteen years (and those only because he's piggybacking on the current z...

- Monkey Shines: An Experiment In Fear (1988): 8.5./10 http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/9359/68125_045.jpg Outside of the initial Dead trilogy, this stands as one of George Romero's strongest films...a taut, well-scripted thriller (adapted from the novel by Michael Stewart) abo...