Derivative dross
TV director Peter Cornwell’s latest effort to revisit the ‘Based On A True Story (Honest)’ craze that was begun by Stuart Rosenberg’s really rather average The Amityville Horror way back in 1979, with screenwriters Adam Simon (Brain Dead (1990)) and Tim Metcalfe (Kalifornia (1993)) along for the ride, suffers very much from all the [...]
I’ll let you guess which is which…
OK, time for another roundup of all the news that’s fit to…er…all the news I feel like writing about. So, without further ado…
Dumber of Sam
Regular readers will, I hope, forgive me for yet another stroll down horror memory lane – as it’s the genre that captivated me from the outset of my life-long love affair with cinema (and is, probably, why I fell for film as quickly as I did), a real disappointment from the form hits [...]
Scary vampires, back from the dead
Marlow: ‘It’s taken us centuries to convince them that we don’t exist.’