Film Critic

Favorite Movies: Jaws, Star Wars Trilogy, Aliens, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dawn read more of the Dead ('78), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74), Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Reservoir Dogs, The Manchurian Candidate ('62), Taxi Driver, Back to the Future, Stand by Me, Shaun of the Dead, Boogie Nights, La Dolce Vita, 12 Angry Men, The Birds, Touch of Evil

Likes: Film, Beer (who the hell DOESN'T around here?!), writing, NY Mets, read more The Jets, Girls who love film AND beer (at the same time), Jazz, Deadwood, The Wire, The Office, The Twilight Zone, Cormac McCarthy, Graham Greene, Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scorsese, Spielberg, Halloween season, Marvel movies, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Ash vs Evil Dead, Game of Thrones, Edgar Allen Poe, Mother Nature

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A Perfect R rating

Earlier this month I updated you on the status of A PERFECT GETAWAY – David Twohy’s thriller that is somewhat in limbo at the moment due to a switch in distributors (Universal now owns it). While we think it may...
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Free Haunting screening

It’s not often I get grossed out by a poster, but for some reason, that moving vomit-tube image you see everywhere for THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT really makes me gag. Maybe it’s because I don’t know what the hell is...
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Laugier talks future

Pascal Laughier is the new French horror “it boy” considering his MARTYRS has received nearly universal praise at every festival it appears in (I still haven’t seen it, dammit). Naturally the man has a ton of projects lined up, most...
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Outlaw vs Werewolves

You’ve got to love Production Weekly and their vague Twitter updates. (If you know not of what I speak, click HERE.) Their latest is about a project called HIGH MOON, which sounds like something John Carpenter might enjoy… In Eddie...
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Moore talks The Thing

BATTLESTAR GALLACTACA show-runner and geek god Ronald D. Moore has another well-known sci-fi property he’s trying to reboot (or remake or whatever). Of course, I’ma talkin’ ’bout THE THING. Moore spoke with Sci Fi Wire about where the project currently...
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Straw Hill remade

Here’s remake #339,430,823 – although I can’t be too outraged at this one because I’ve never even heard the title before. The film in question is HOUSE ON STRAW HILL, a British thriller made in 1976 and starring the always...
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Re-Animator off for now

Earlier this month I eased your fears a little about the rumored RE-ANIMATOR 3-D with an article about Stuart Gordon’s just-as-surprised-as-we-are reaction to the news that producers Brian Yuzna and Roy Haboush were planning on putting the original into the...
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Hayter forms Dark Hero

WATCHMEN and X-MEN screenwriter David Hayter is preparing to step behind the camera for the werewolf thriller SLAUGHTER’S ROAD. In addition, he’s set up to direct DEMONOLOGY for the newly formed Dark Hero Studios, which he helped create. Hayter wrote...
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Park’s Thirst trailer!

As far as most anticipated movies of this year – or any other – THIRST is way up there for me. Park Chan-Wook’s finally got a new film coming out, and that is cause for celebration no matter what language...
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The Orphan poster

“There’s something wrong with Esther” says the poster for Dark Castle’s THE ORPHAN. Yeah, she has the eyes of a goat-devil and looks like she wants to bite my f*cking head off… Or maybe it’s the fact that she’s a...
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