Jacques Tourneur considered I Walked With A Zombie (1943) his best work. It is an assessment many critics agree with. It is, perhaps, the most apt of Halloween entries. Horror is not at its ripest in 7 foot tall hatchet-welding slashers, brain-eating zombies, or slickly produced libidinous teen-age vampires. Rather, it flourishes in the everyday. Horror is . . . → Read More: JACQUES TOURNEUR’S I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943)
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“Michele Soari gave me the script. At first I didn’t understand anything, because it was really strange. It’s a horror movie, it’s a sex movie, it was really strange…”–Anna Falchi DIRECTED BY: Michele Soavi FEATURING: Rupert Everett, Anna Falchi, François Hadji-Lazaro PLOT: Together with his nearly-mute associate Gnaghi, Francesco Dellamorte is a groundskeeper at . . . → Read More: 114. CEMETERY MAN [DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE] (1994) DIRECTED BY: Drew Goddard FEATURING: Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Anna Hutchison, Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams PLOT: Five college kids find themselves trapped inside an impossibly clichéd horror movie situation at the titular locale; if they somehow manage to survive the redneck zombies, they will still have to worry about the puppetmaster pulling . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (2012) * This is the fifth installment in the series “Karloff’s Bizarre and Final Six Pack.” Snake People (AKA Isle Of The Snake People) feels like pure Jack Hill; that is, Jack Hill the exploitation guru to whom Quentin Tarantino has built an altar. The opening narration is a duller variant of Criswell’s repetitive but puerile Plan . . . → Read More: ISLE OF THE SNAKE PEOPLE (1971) DIRECTED BY: Deagol Brothers FEATURING: Eric Lehning, Cody DeVos, Leah High, Brett Miller, Tia Shearer, Jordan Lehning PLOT: A young man finds one summer love with the reanimated object of his desire. WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Skillful blending of genres combined with a premise of genuinely romantic necrophilia make this movie 100 . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: MAKE-OUT WITH VIOLENCE (2008) DIRECTED BY: Mike Schneider FEATURING: Karl Hardman, Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea PLOT: An animated recreation of the classic zombie film, Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated features a number of talented animators filtering Romero’s original vision through their own artistic viewpoints, expressing the universal messages therein in their own mediums. WHY IT WON’T . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: REANIMATED (2010) DIRECTED BY: Tommy Wirkola FEATURING: Vegar Hoel, Charlotte Frogner, and other professional but fairly interchangable Scandinavian actors PLOT: Eight medical students travel to a remote ski cabin for a little rest and relaxation, only to find the snowbound retreat is haunted by pesky Nazi zombies. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: If it’s weird, . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: DEAD SNOW [DØD SNØ] (2009) DIRECTED BY: Brian Yuzna FEATURING: Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Elsa Pataky, Simón Andreu PLOT: A brilliant young med school graduate gets himself assigned to the institution where Dr. Herbert West is imprisoned so that he can enlist the good doctor’s assistance in continuing his forbidden experiments in reanimating the dead. WHY IT WON’T . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR (2003) DIRECTED BY: Uwe Boll FEATURING: Jonathan Cherry, Ona Grauer, Clint Howard, Jurgen Prochnow PLOT: Teenagers go to the Isle of the Dead for the “rave of the century,” but ravenous killing machines from somewhere within the zombie genus spoil the party. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Uwe Boll’s weirdest idea is to . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: HOUSE OF THE DEAD (2003) DIRECTED BY: Bruce McDonald FEATURING: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly PLOT: Zombies who aren’t really zombies wreak havoc upon the peaceful (i.e. dull) Canadian town of Pontypool. We’re taken through the terror through the perspective of a local FM Zoo Crew DJ and his associates as more and more reports come into the . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: PONTYPOOL (2008) |
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