The popular online myth regarding the Slender Man is now on its way to becoming a film. Recently on Kickstarter, AJ Meadows began his campaign on Kickstarter to raise the funds necessary for production. The …

by Richard von Busack
Quoth the raven: this film sucks. In Raven (showtimes here) director James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) includes an early scene of the disemboweling of an obese captive with Edgar Allan Poe’s infamous …

It’s Halloween, and while everyone else is dressing up, carving pumpkins and getting candy ready, I’m thinking about the movies.  Specifically, the scariest movie I’ve ever seen.  I’ve seen a lot of scary movies, some …

by Richard von Busack
IN THE operatically pervy The Skin I Live In, Antonio Banderas is clearly a mad doctor. Dr. Robert Ledgard is a wealthy plastic surgeon of Spain’s Toledo, with a sealed-off estate lined …

By Richard von Busack
The Dead is the first zombie movie in years to have some real lead in its pencil. Brothers Howard J. and Jonathan Ford went from England to Bourkina Faso to direct …

By Richard von Busack
A talented and ambitious scriptwriter could do worse than to figure out the following problem: “As Larry the Cable Guy is one of the most powerful people in the Industry, how can …

By Richard von Busack
It opens with a real shocker. In the turn of the century before last, a decrepit old man in the basement of a crumbling Victorian manor takes care of his servant problem …

by Richard von Busack
On Guy Fawkes’ night when London is blitzed by fireworks, aliens crash land: eyeless furry beasts whose snaggled teeth glow like ultra violet lights. Dark silhouettes, they look like Muppets made out …

By Richard von Busack
The opening two scenes in Super 8 demonstrate the graphic punch and keen storytelling ability of J. J. Abrams, one of the most exciting action filmmakers today. On the evidence of this, …

By Richard von Busack
Is Scream 4 a “shreiquel” or a “screamake”? I shouldn’t ask that question because the film asks that question itself. Strangely likable morsel of slasher-Pirandello that it is, Scream 4 asks more …