*Note. I have kids. They are a huge consumption of time. And energy. And money! I realize it's February (mid-February at that) and posting these reviews of my Halloween marathon might seem, well, sad. But [...]

MAN BITES DOG Coming off as Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer meets Spinal Tap, Man Bites Dog was all the rage back in the early ‘90s for horror and indie-movie fans (the movie won [...]

TRANCERS My 16-year old self baffles me. It was around that time I found a B-Grade film — tonight’s film — and watched it a lot. I liked this thing so much, I actually pirated [...]

EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN *Please note: I wrote this in the Halloween season. I realize that's like well over a month ago, but I've got kids. And two dogs. And a wife. Shit [...]

THE EXORCIST If you ask me, God’s behind it all. I have a similar theory to The Omen, so stop me if you’ve heard it before.  Let’s roll down the checklist here: we have Chris [...]

A QUIET PLACE Set in an apocalyptic world where gangly armed, Venom-faced monsters have dispatched most of the world’s population, A Quiet Place follows a nuclear family that has done its best to survive and [...]

THE EVIL DEAD Jason’s homework is destroying my life.  Last month, the Rio Theatre (located on Broadway and Commercial in beautiful Vancouver, BC) was playing a 4K version of The Evil Dead with a remastered [...]

HAUNT Haunt turned out to be an extremely effective slasher film despite being linked to Eli Roth (the “auteur” behind Cabin Fever and the Death Wish remake is listed as a producer). It was written [...]

HELLBOY & CANDYMAN Twenty-minutes into 2019’s reboot of HELLBOY, I suddenly realized I’m one month away from my birthday. When I was 15-years old, I could sit and watch ANYTHING. Good, bad, ugly, I’d wade [...]

THE PERFECTION THE PERFECTION is probably the best example of what’s wrong with modern screenwriting today. I was attracted to the story because I’m on a psychological-thriller kick that involves beautiful women gaslighting one another [...]