March, 2007
Below are links to articles posted in March, 2007
The Walking Dead – Volume 1: Days Gone Bye
At first glance, “The Walking Dead – Volume 1: Days Gone Bye” by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore seems like a derivative work. In fact, with an opening almost identical to that of the modern zombie movie masterpiece 28 Days Later, (our hero wakes from a coma in a hospital to a world already overrun [...]
Rose McGowan – Scream, Phantoms, Charmed
Though she’d been on the public radar ever since starring in the excellent The Doom Generation, and though that movie was bathed in buckets of blood, it was not technically a horror movie. So it wasn’t until Rose McGowan stole the show with her highly memorable automatic garage door opener death scene that she claimed [...]
Martin – by George Romero
An often overlooked classic, George Romero’s Martin is still the epitome of the “is he or isn’t he really a vampire?” movies (such as Habit and Vampire’s Kiss). The movie constantly walks the line between both possibilities and keeps you guessing, presenting just enough evidence to support both charges but never enough to convict on [...]
Nocturnals – by Dan Brereton
Mixing gumshoe pulp noir with Lovecraftian horror themes to create his own fantastic alternate universe, Dan Brereton‘s Nocturnals graphic novels have set their own unique bar for style. Created, written, and illustrated single-handedly by Brereton, each of his moody hand-painted panels drips with classic horror mixed with gun-toting gangster retro. This single man puts most [...]
Fairuza Balk – The Craft, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Masters of Horror: Pick Me Up
Fairuza Balk, the fairest of them all! Fairuza established herself as an actress who can channel her dark side to become an evil thing of beauty in The Craft. Her performance is easily the highlight of the movie, she smolders with steamy sexuality and evil seduction. Fairuza’s next film was a remake of the horror [...]
An American Werewolf in London vs The Howling
The debate has long raged among horror fans: which is the best werewolf movie of all time? This discussion usually ends up as a duel between An American Werewolf in London (1981) and The Howling (1981), which are both classic lycanthrope landmarks of celluloid. Wow, 1981 sure was a great year for wolf-man fans! But [...]
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