New Review: Evil Dead II |
There is a fulcrum moment in director Sam Raimi's recent career, at the center of "Spider-Man 3," when protagonist Peter Parker is possessed by the malevolent power of an alien symbiote. Shattering hi...
Posted by Cinescare on Mon, 12 May 2008 07:08:00 PST |
New Review/New Interview |
Cinescare correspondent Nicholas Peruzzi is back from the oddity-front with a look at the rare and perhaps-misunderstood 1987 sequel to reactionary 1982 slasher "Slumber Party Massacre.""Slumber Party...
Posted by Cinescare on Sun, 04 May 2008 03:45:00 PST |
New Review: The Devil’s Music |
Cinescare touches base with the newest work from Pat Higgins, one of this site's favorite indie directors. Higgins is previewing a new and brilliant film about media, pop culture, religion, and the da...
Posted by Cinescare on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:27:00 PST |
New Review: Saw II |
The plot thickens.Director Darren Lynn Bousman takes the reigns of the Saw franchise and in "Saw II" develops the early threads of what will play out as a multi-film novel. In Bousman's layered sequel...
Posted by Cinescare on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:04:00 PST |
New Review: Saw |
James Wan and Leigh Whannell's opening salvo to the genre world was "Saw," a relatively low-budget 2004 film that changed much about how writers saw the horror vessel. "Saw" recommended that the artis...
Posted by Cinescare on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:24:00 PST |
New Review: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires |
Hammer Studios turned a final and surprising corner in its apparent exploration of how to break the Dracula franchise with "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires."Fusing martial arts with fanged undead,...
Posted by Cinescare on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:56:00 PST |
New Review: Dracula A.D. 1972 |
Director Alan Gibson joins the Hammer Dracula franchise by pushing the narrative chronology forward to the 1970s, and hauling with it the satanic machinations and generation-gap thematics that had beg...
Posted by Cinescare on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:38:00 PST |
New Review: The Satanic Rites of Dracula |
Hammer Studios continued to diffuse its treatment of Bram Stoker’s titular character in 1973’s "The Satanic Rites of Dracula." While the Count is still equated with satanic forces afoot in...
Posted by Cinescare on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:14:00 PST |
New Review: Scars of Dracula |
It may be the beginning of the end for the more noble part of Hammer Studios' run with Dracula, but while Roy Ward Baker's "Scars of Dracula" teeters on the precipice of ridiculousness - it also bring...
Posted by Cinescare on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:37:00 PST |
New Review: Taste the Blood of Dracula |
Peter Sasdy directs "Taste the Blood of Dracula" with an eye for the corrupt underbelly of English culture at the turn of the century. No longer intertwining Bram Stoker's characters with post-World W...
Posted by Cinescare on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:02:00 PST |
