Reviews

Of course, it's about what you'd expect from a film that opted to tell a story in as horrid a setting as an England being so divided and ravaged by civil war that the eponymous witchfinder (Vincent Price) is capable of waging his own war against the threat of witchcraft. ...

That's the angle that Leatherface takes as it begins by showing young Jed Sawyer, initially seen being uncomfortable with the idea of taking part in his family's cruelty, being carted off to a home for criminally insane delinquents by the local sheriff (Stephen Dorff). ...

I won't deny that I had some fun with Apostle and how Evans' trademark action made for a different take on the cult sub-genre (which might be one of my favourite horror sub-genres, but then again this film did make me question that at least a little), but in the end it didn't grow on me. ...

As such, The Hunger benefits considerably from a re-evaluation that doesn't quite make it classic material for me but makes it clear that I was definitely missing something the first time around - at the very least, I find myself interested in seeing what Scott would've come up with if he'd kept mak... ...

I can certainly understand why the prospect of remaking Maniac Cop sounds so enticing - the original definitely strikes me as the kind of film that doesn't make the most of its premise's potential. ...

It made sense for Anne Rice to centre her debut vampire novel Interview with the Vampire around Louis, a vampire who viewed his condition as a curse and refused to feed on humans out of moral convictions - a viewpoint that constantly put him at odds with Lestat, the much less morally-conflicted vamp... ...

Going into any film that you know has drawn a considerable cult following can always be a double-edged sword as so many of those films earn said followings by appealing to distinctly off-kilter perspectives that you yourself may not share, hence why so many of them are so incredibly polarising. ...

It's definitely easy to question whether or not Cronenberg's decision to bring his real-life issues into the texture of the film might have problematic implications and end up turning the film into "My Ex-Wife Is Crazy: The Movie" (especially as it reaches its grotesquely troubling conclusion), but ... ...

Admittedly, seeing Ridley Scott return to the Alien universe suggests a degree of personal passion that's not so easily seen in his somewhat indistinguishable period epics, especially considering how his own advancing age is reflected in how much of the film is driven by a search for answers to the ... ...

Even when taking into account the ways in which this doesn't play like a hastily-retooled remake (primarily during the film's third act), it tends to raise further questions that not only plague this film but might retroactively affect its source. ...