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Top 3 Final Girls (Horror)
The final girl is an often disputed topic, especially since the film industry has evolved her into a hero of sorts instead of a woman solely fighting to survive. When I first studied the final girl, I...
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Scrooged vs. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Watching Ghosts of Girlfriends Past actually inspired this post. I know it strange, but I take inspiration where I find it :) It occurred to me that this movie borrowed a few aspects from Scrooged, so...
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Jurassic World: Bringing Life Back to the Movies (and also some Dinosaurs)
I lived on Nellis Airforce Base in the mid-Eighties and because I was a young kid at the time, my family only visited the strip once. On that single trip the only thing I cared about was visiting a...
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Complete Review: Aliens and Predators Intro
Throughout my pre-adolescent and teenage years there were two film franchises that dominated my creative sensibilities: the Alien films and the Predator films. These two IPs fueled a my art work,...
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Alien (1979) – The Perfect Organism
I admittedly came late to the appreciation for this film. I saw the more action-packed sequel (previously covered in a “best sequel” post and covered in more detail next week) first as a kid and saw...
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Dark Skies Gives Hope to New Horror
Sometimes you just get lucky. I’ve seen Dark Skies pop up on my TV for weeks, so last night I said, ‘what the heck, I’ll buy it.’ And I’m glad I did. Overall, Dark Skies was an impressive new horror...
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Aliens (1986): The Perfect Organisms
Sequels are worse than original films. That is a near decree that has been handed down from the high mountains of Hollywood, carved into the living stone of film history. Very rarely does a sequel live...
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Alien 3 (1992): The Adequate Organism
How do you follow up one of the greatest sequels in film history? One that advanced the story and added marvelous new lore to a franchise? Expand it further? Add more new, exciting elements? Or…just...
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Alien Resurrection (1997): Put it Out of its Misery…
I saw this film when it first came out in theaters in 1997 and my love for the franchise, begun by my adoration of Aliens and fostered by various issues of the Dark Horse comic series and their...
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Prometheus (2012) – The Origins of Alien…or Something
Ok how to cover this film. I first even debated whether it deserved a place in an Alien franchise review series but as it was billed as a film in the same universe and directed by Ridley Scott, the...
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Black Christmas: Original vs. Remake
Having seen the Black Christmas remake several times, I had to review this one. In my experience, many young people have no idea these movies exist, and it has been lost in the slasher cannon. I also...
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Dawn of the Dead: Original Vs. Remake
Few horror movies have been as influential on pop culture as George Romero’s Dead films. Though he started with the small, but revolutionary 1968 film Night of the Living Dead it was his follow up Dawn...
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The Fog: Original vs. Remake
The original. Enough said. I’m kidding … I won’t end the post here, but I could. I could spare you some remake bashing, but that’s not our purpose. We try to be fair in our reviews, so I’m only going...
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Thirteen Ghosts: Original vs. Remake
I saw the 2001 version of Thir13en Ghosts when it came on my college’s free movie channel (it showed second run theater films). When first watching it I really enjoyed it for its genre-spanning...
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Friday the 13th: Original vs. Remake
As we draw closer to the end of the month, you knew we’d save some of the best slasher movies for last. Friday the 13th is one of my favorite horror movies, and I have been watching it since I was a...
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Guest Post: A Nightmare on Elm Street – Original vs. Remake
Happy Halloween week, everyone! Our good friend Blake Best, author of Seeing Red and Green, joined in the remake conversation this month to discuss this horror classic. Please show some love, and feel...
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Halloween: Original vs. Remake
We hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween! Another holiday has come and gone, however we had so much fun and great conversations about this topic that we’ve decide to extend it another week. We...
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Original Vs Remake: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Grindhouse theater was a big underground movement in the 1970s. Cheaply made, extreme movies of graphic violence or exploitation were all the rage, but rarely was one such film remembered beyond the...
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Originals and Remakes: Horror Films that Need a Modern Remake
We hope you’ve enjoyed our October Original vs. Remake series. We had a blast comparing them, and we hope you’ve tried at least a couple! We also understand many have grown tired of the remake trend;...
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The Jem Movie: Universal Got What They Deserved
Jem and the Holograms 2015 had the third-worst opening in box-office history. That’s a pretty hefty price tag and epic fail for Universal, and my response is: They deserved it. As a woman in my 30s, I...
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