BBC/NETFLIX DRACULA (Part 1 only) SPOILER REVIEW!
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffitt, who created the BBC’s “Sherlock,” take on Dracula with the help of Netflix. Is it good? Well, yes and no. Read the review but BEWARE OF SPOILERS!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN MICRO REVIEWS
Steve’s second Halloween column this month, in which he tries to do teeny-tiny reviews of 27 movies. Let us know if he succeeds or falls flat on his face.
MOVIE REVIEW: NOSFERATU (1922), Copyright? What copyright?
Steve travels back to 1922 to look at the first vampire movie, Nosferatu, and its influence on modern vampire movies.
Horror Film or Terror Film. Which is it? Karloff and Clarens Speak Out
Boris Karloff made ‘terror’ films. Not horror films.
How SFX Can Ruin a Horror Film
It recently struck me how most of the films that, IMHO, were truly scary were the ones that had little or no digital special effects. The reason is simple: what makes something scary is mostly what you don’t see rather than what you do see. Compare, for example, Alien (1979) with it’s putative prequel, Prometheus […]
