Highly Recommended Lightning Bug isn’t a horror flick, and yet it’s a film I’d bet many genre fans can relate to…those of us who grew up devouring Fangoria and GoreZone month in and month out, daydreaming about being the next Tom Savini or Rob Bottin. See, high school senior Green Graves (Bret Harrison) has a knack for creating gruesome monsters: doodling, sculpting, Read the entire review
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Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A few years after Wes Craven directed The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes but before his big breakout, A Nightmare on Elm Street , he made Deadly Blessing , which is more interesting as a precursor of what’s to come than an effective horror …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. A doctor getting a god complex is a well-worn genre trope, explored in movies as far apart as Stanley Kramer’s Not as a Stranger (1955) and the Alec Baldwin vehicle Malice (1995). With those movies, the story usually involves the docs overestimating their power to …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. You’d be forgiven for forgetting Resident Evil: Retribution’s super generic subtitle, as it may as well be called “This Year’s Resident Evil 3D.” This is the fifth Milla Jovovich-lead film in the franchise, and directly follows the events of last year’s Resident Evil: Afterlife , which marked the return of …
Highly Recommended The Blue Lagoon (1980) is the story of two children, a boy and girl, marooned on a South Seas island paradise. Completely cut-off from civilization, as teenagers they instinctively learn about love and sex. Although it was an enormous hit, earning ten times its cost, it’s also quite odd in that it was marketed as one kind of film, received by audiences as something altogether …
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