Houses of Hell: The Dunwich Horror (2009)
An adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror, this movie is all about Wilbur Whateley (Jeffery Combs, Re-Animator, The Frighteners) as he tries to find the Necronomicon, an ancient, diabolical manuscript that will help him open a doorway to a dimension inhabited by unspeakable creatures known as the Old Ones. Otherwise known as The Darkest Evil […]
Houses of Hell: American Horror House (2012)
Three students strive to be initiated into a sorority on Halloween night. However, they soon realize that they must fight for their lives from ghosts that have invaded and the housemother that has embarked upon a killing spree. Oh man — with a synopsis like that, is it any wonder that I picked this movie […]
Exploring: The Unmade Planet of the Apes Films
For all the Planet of the Apes films — it’s on its third reboot, plus it had a TV and animated series — there are several that never got made. Before he did The Dark Backward, Adam Rifkin was brought in to write what the studio referred to as an alternative sequel to the first film. You know, […]
Night of the Bloody Apes (1972)
Oh René Cardona. Here you are remaking the lucha libre movie you did back in 1962, Las Luchadoras Contra el Medico Asesino, or The Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Doctor or Doctor of Doom, as it was called in the U.S. While this was made in 1969 as La Horripilante Bestia Humana, or The Horrible Man-Beast, this one […]
Ape Week: Planet of the Apes (2001)
Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner (The Legend of Billie Jean, Superman IV: A Quest for Peace, Sometimes They Come Back, The Beverly Hillbillies and more) worked with The Polar Express and Cast Away writer William Broyles Jr. After decades of trying to reboot the franchise, Tim Burton was able to get this script to the screen, even if nearly nobody […]
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