Retrospectives
How Carnosaur Beat Jurassic Park to the Punch (We Can’t Believe it Either)
Carnosaur is widely known as a rip off of Jurassic Park. The idea makes sense. After all, Jurassic Park was the biggest hit of 1993 and it built up a lot of hype even before it was released, making it...
Why Ghost Story is a Muddled Adaptation (That’s Still Scary as Hell)
Peter Straub’s Ghost Story is one of the scariest—if not the scariest—books I’ve ever read in my life. It’s a powerful, deeply character driven novel that takes a co...
How Night of the Demons: Re-Envisioned Demonic Possession Movies
Kevin Tenney’s Night of the Demons is, without a doubt, a B-Movie. It doesn’t pretend to be anything else. That’s sort of what makes it work as well as it does. Night of the Demon...
Why Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey is Actually a Horror Movie
As hard as it is to make a good sequel to a horror movie, it’s almost impossible for a comedy. There are exceptions, like National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Wayne’s World 2...
How One of the Best Horror Comics Became One of the Most Troubled Comic Book Movies
When we think of successful comics, we mostly think of Marvel and DC. That’s because, for a huge chunk of time, those were really the only two companies that had kind of serious success. A crea...
Why V/H/S/2 Outdoes the First
Hearing about it for the first time, I was fairly certain that V/H/S was going to be an impossible movie for me not to like. One, it was bringing back the anthology, which ranks high among my favorite...
How The Last House on the Left Remake Outdid the Original
In a time when most horror remakes are judged before they are even get made, The Last House on the Left 2009 remains a stellar example of how a remake can work as a complement to the origina...
Why the Scooby Doo Movie Was Actually Kind of Awesome
I know that cartoon to feature film adaptations usually do not work out for the best. Case in point, the Jem and the Holograms feature film. The translation between the two can get a bit roc...
Why Silver Bullet Could Have Been a Classic Werewolf Movie
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet certainly has its fans. It’s not one of the best adaptations of the author’s work, but it is far from the worst. There’s something almost charm...