Webs is quite an anomaly. I received the screener in the mail and the first thing I noticed was the massive “SciFi Essentials” plastered across the top of the DVD case. Anyone that watches the SciFi channel knows that they usually put out dull, lifeless films that are chalk full of horrible CGI and acting [...]

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Note: This review is for the original Japanese version

I hold a special place in my heart for Japanese films involving giant monsters laying waste to entire cities. In my younger days, I used to look so forward to Saturday’s when some local station would usually play one of these films on the “Creature [...]

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Imagine, if you will, the vast emptiness of space, the echoing corridors of nothingness, lit only by the countless stars thousands of miles away dotting the black backdrop.  Now, imagine a massive ship sliding through the abyss of space, traveling through galaxies to a destination unknown.  Its boxy features and immense volume seem miniscule in [...]

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It’s nothing new for musical acts to get themselves into the film game. With films like KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, Cool as Ice, and the most horrific of them all, Spice World, history has proven that this is generally not a good idea. Once in a great while however, it works, [...]

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Based of the best-selling Scott Smith (A Simple Plan) novel of the same name, The Ruins sounds a lot sillier when you try to describe it than it does when you actually watch it. It is about an ancient Mayan pyramid deep in the jungle, infested inside and out, by a man-eating plant. But [...]

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When I hear the words “Exploitation Film” the first thing that pops into my head is Humanoids from the Deep.  This film had pretty much every convention of an exploitation film including: nudity, gore, horrible acting, destruction, death, cheesy dialogue, a generic story, and terrible effects.  Humanoids from the Deep fails on so many levels [...]

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Leave it to Yûdai Yamaguchi, director of such cult craziness as Battlefield Baseball, Cromartie High: The Movie, and Meatball Machine (read Morbid’s review here), to realize that J-horror is quickly growing stale and direct one that appears to be completely tongue-in-cheek. Based on the manga “Akanbo Shoujo” from horror legend Kazuo Umezu (whose work Yamaguchi [...]

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Alligator may be my favorite animal-run-amock film just behind Jaws and Razorback.  I know blasphemy, but whatever.  Alligator is flushed down toilet.  Alligator gets huge.  Alligator PWNS.  There you go.  That’s the story in a nutshell.  So, why do I love this little B-gem from 1980?  Almost everything.  The film works because everyone plays with [...]

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Way back in January, Cloverfield was finally unleashed upon us. Months and months of hype originally gave me mixed feelings but I couldn’t argue with the final results. It gave me a monster movie that I thought would never happen again after Roland Emmerich destroyed the genre with his disastrous Godzilla remake a decade [...]

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“Don’t be ashamed to scream – it helps to relieve the tension” is the tagline across the cover of my copy of The Black Scorpion. Now, we all know we’re not going to be screaming, going into a film with a monster’s face that looks like something from Where the Wild Things Are with [...]

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