Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein (2025)

[7] Director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth) puts his cinematic stamp on Mary Shelley's formative sci-fi novel, casting Oscar Isaac (Dune: Part One, Annihilation) as the obsessed Victor Frankenstein who brings an assembly of dead body…
Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

[7] Writer/director S. Craig Zahler presents a western horror film about a small town sheriff (Kurt Russell) who leads three other men in search of two townspeople who were kidnapped in the middle of the night. The kidnappers aren't just…
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

[5] Master of Horror John Carpenter directs this Lovecraftian horror thriller about an insurance investigator (Sam Neill) who teams up with a publishing company rep (Julie Carmen) to find a missing horror novelist named Sutter Cane (Jurgen Prochnow). Their search…
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

[8] A high school girl (Heather Langenkamp) and her friends are hunted in their dreams by Fred Kruger (Robert Englund), a local criminal who died many years earlier. But unlike normal nightmares, if the kids die in their dreams, they…
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

[6] Director/co-writer/actor John Krasinski serves up another helping of his intimate and suspenseful alien apocalypse story. The sequel begins with a flashback sequence of the day the aliens came to earth and began decimating the world's population. Krasinski appears in…
Fade to Black (1980)

Fade to Black (1980)

[6] A film buff (Breaking Away's Dennis Christopher) suffers a schizophrenic break, dressing up like various movie villains on a killing spree, getting revenge on everyone who slighted him. He also pursues a Marilyn Monroe look-alike (Linda Kerridge) who doesn't…
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

[8] Gary Oldman takes a stab at one the most enduring characters in film history with Bram Stoker's Dracula. In a script that follows the classic novel as well as historical findings about one 'Vlad the Impaler', Oldman's Dracula uses…
Vampyr (1932)

Vampyr (1932)

[6] An occultist beds down at a remote inn where he discovers a young lady succumbing to vampirism after being bitten by an old woman -- an old woman who is supposed to be buried in a nearby graveyard. Despite…
Village of the Damned (1995)

Village of the Damned (1995)

[6] After helming one of the best remakes of all time with 1982's The Thing, John Carpenter tackles another atomic-age remake. Village of the Damned is pretty faithful to the original 1960 film's storyline, which is based on a 1957…
Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

[3] [This review is of the 2025 Director's Cut.] Special makeup effects artist Tom Savini directs this early '90s remake of George Romero's seminal Night of the Living Dead. Tony Todd and Patricia Tallman lead the ensemble cast with a…