by mike | Jun 14, 2021 | Death, Ghosts, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
Horror producer/director James Wan has been associated with a number of successful films, including the Insidious franchise and the (mostly) awesome Conjuring Universe. But his 2007 effort, Dead Silence, is not exactly one of those successes. Bad reviews (20% on...
by mike | Jun 7, 2021 | Blowing Shit Up, Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Each of these two movies, the classic Predator (1987) and the not-so-classic Predator 2 (1990), features a single antagonist—a nasty-looking dude with dreads. So why, one would wonder, does it take an ungodly amount of blowing shit up to bring these alien hunters...
by mike | Jun 3, 2021 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Uncategorized |
Who else—or WHAT else—roams the underground of Manhattan? This post first ran in 2017. When I wrote about the late John Heard last week I mentioned that one of his earliest screen roles was in the 1984 horror movie, C.H.U.D. I would’ve eventually written about this...
by mike | May 27, 2021 | Death, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Movies, Uncategorized |
Wow, time not only flies…it breaks the sound barrier! I first wrote about John Heard’s passing in 2017. Actor John Heard passed away a couple of weeks ago at the age of seventy-one (exactly one day younger than me). It saddened me to learn of this, given that I’ve...
by mike | May 13, 2021 | Horror, Horror Movies, Monster Movies, Monsters, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Long before the Great White Shark kept us out of the water, there was the Gill-Man. I first presented this post in 2017. The science fiction and horror movies of the 1950s more than sufficed to scare the crap out of an impressionable kid like me. Foremost among them...
by mike | May 6, 2021 | Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Before Samuel L. Jackson began acting in seemingly every movie made since the 1980s, there was Whit Bissell. This post first ran in 2017. In one of my books from decades past I wrote about a late Hollywood character actor named Whit Bissell and said that he had played...
