From among the Video Nasties In the fall of 1978, even before it opened in its native United States, George A. Romero’s horror-satire masterpiece Dawn of the Dead was substantially re-edited by Dario Argento for the Italian market, and retitled Zombi; because hey, that’s a good title for a zombie picture, and there hadn’t been […]

Also check out my review of the American cut As most everyone with even a passing interest in horror or indie movies knows, in 1968, young George A. Romero made Night of the Living Dead with the thinnest of budgets and an ungodly amount of creativity, and triggered a seismic event in the genre’s history; […]

“The reason I did that film was that I was dead broke and needed to do any film. I would have done Godzilla Goes to Paris.” -Wes Craven, on The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2 (1985) There’s no possible way to argue that The Hills Have Eyes II is not a bad movie, but it […]

The Silence of the Lambs, released exactly sixteen years ago today, is almost certainly the finest American film about serial killers, because it’s not “about” serial killers. It’s about Clarice Starling, FBI trainee, and how she stared evil in the face in order to stop another evil. It’s somewhere between a fable and a character […]

The greatest horror films of the 1970s, which is to say, some of the greatest horror films of all time, have an almost transcendent quality – they are among the most effective cinematic experiences imaginable. Think Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, think Carpenter’s Halloween, think Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Not just brilliant horror, some […]