by mike | Apr 13, 2017 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
This catty post first stalked the pages of my blog in 2013. You might feel a bit…well, sleazy watching this 1982 “erotic remake” of the 1942 movie that bore the same title but, understandably, had way less sex and violence. I suppose that would qualify it as a guilty...
by mike | Mar 9, 2017 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I goofed back in 2013, when I first wrote about The Descent, by calling it a Guilty Pleasure. The film did well at the box office, and it is listed as “85% Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes. No guilt here, don’cha know! Okay, this is one scary underground chick flick, the...
by mike | Feb 20, 2017 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The 1998 sci-fi/disaster flick, Armageddon, grossed well over half a billion dollars—so why is it a Guilty Pleasure? Doubtless because its reviews were uniformly awful. I mean, here is what Roger Ebert had to say: “The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the...
by mike | Jan 26, 2017 | Ghosts, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
You don’t want your kids encountering THIS tooth fairy. I first wrote about this film in 2013. AN EYE FOR AN EYE. YOUR LIFE FOR A TOOTH. That’s one of the taglines for the 2003 horror flick, Darkness Falls—a double entendre title if ever there was one. In this case,...
by mike | Jan 19, 2017 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
In this 2013 post I had to wonder why the slithery creatures known as anacondas are so fascinating to people. Like Indiana Jones, I too have asked that question many times of late. I finally decided to stop trying to figure it out and accept the fact that—to use one...
by mike | Dec 26, 2016 | Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
It is hard to imagine a story written by the great Ray Bradbury NOT translating well to the big screen. But such was the case with the 2005 sci-fi thriller, A Sound of Thunder. Bradbury published the story in Collier’s magazine (1952) and he later included it in his...
