Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this review in no way endorses a belief in the occult ( Read more... )

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Director John Landis returns to horror-ish territory with this comic tale of the infamous graverobbing duo Burke and Hare (Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis). Strapped for cash, they sell a dead body to a medical school ran by Tom Wilkinson. When Burke falls in love with an aspiring actress (Isla Fisher), he soon learns that he needs lots of dough to ( Read more... )

From his Hammer days to his recent Hollywood resurgence, Christopher Lee has provided filmgoers with seven decades of badass awesomeness. Today we’ll look a three wildly different films featuring Lee. First up is probably his all-time worst ( Read more... )

I’ve wanted to see this flick for a long time. It’s an hour long horror movie trailer compilation hosted by Jamie Lee Curtis and directed by John Landis. As you all know, I’m a sucker for horror movie trailer compilations, I’m a big fan of Jamie Lee Curtis, and John Landis is one of my all-time favorite directors; so this was right up my alley. ( Read more... )

My wife had never seen The Blues Brothers before, which is kinda odd when you think about it; seeing how she loves musicals and old school Saturday Night Live.  Last night I basically made her watch it and I think she liked it, even though she fell asleep before the monumental 28 car pile-up in the end.

I’ve seen The Blues Brothers dozens of times ( Read more... )

Anne (La Femme Nikita) Parillaud stars as a French vampire in Pittsburgh who takes a bite out of crime by draining a bunch of gangsters of their blood and then blowing their heads off with a shotgun.  When she goes to put the bite on big crime boss Sal “The Shark” (Robert Loggia), she doesn’t get to finish him off and he becomes a volatile wild- ( Read more... )

Exploitation movie guru Johnny Legend made this entertaining video magazine showcasing the best (and worse) in horror films from today and yesteryear.  Legend interviews directors John (Animal House) Landis, Fred Olen (Cyclone) Ray, Brian (Society) Yuzna, and Ray Dennis (The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up ( Read more... )

 
Steven Spielberg produced and co-directed this entertaining updating of Rod Serling’s immortal television classic.  Although his segment is decidedly the weakest of the lot, we should be thankful to the ‘Berg for getting such a great bunch of directors together for this minor classic.  I’m a sucker for anthology movies anyway, so it doesn’t really ( Read more... )

John Landis wrote, directed and stars in this hilarious horror spoof as the “Schlockthropus” a killer ape-man who kills lots of people and leaves banana peels at the scene of his crimes. The clueless cops dub him “The Banana Killer” and try in vain to capture him. Schlock ends up falling in love with a blind girl (Eliza Garrett) who thinks he’s a ( Read more... )