The second phase of Universal horror films that began with 1939’s Son of Frankenstein was even more prolific and successful than the first, although this did not come at a small price. For while the bulk of the horror films produced under the watchful eye of the two Carl Laemmles were high-budget affairs with the […]

It’s hard to say whether Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is more terrible or inessential. Of course, that’s something of a false dichotomy – part of the reason it’s terrible is because it’s so very inessential. Set many hundreds of years prior to the unlikely, undeserving hit movies Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, Rise of the […]