This film is dire. Really terrible. Do not watch it. Please. For your own sake. OK, I'll go on, I've suffered through this dross so you don't have to. … [Read more...]
Howling VI: The Freaks (1991) review by That Film Geek
Directed by Hope Perello, Howling VI: The Freaks has a strange style, it's in an unspecified time, which appears to be modern (at least for when the film was made) but with the style of 50's Americana permeating the film. The opening feels very much like a western, with the lone drifter coming into the dying town of Canton Bluff (droughts are causing tough times for the … [Read more...]
Howling V: The Rebirth (1989) review by That Film Geek
Clive Turner is back as co writer and producer of this instalment in the long-in-the-tooth (geddit?) Howling franchise, but this time he also stars as one of the main characters. In late 15th century Hungary a couple massacre the entire population of their castle, their family, servants, everyone, in a failed attempt to kill off a werewolf bloodline. … [Read more...]
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988) review by That Film Geek
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare represents the first involvement in the Howling franchise of Clive Turner, as the co-writer and producer of this film, he also has a small cameo in this film. Remember the name, he'll come up in other Howling films. The film is a reasonably faithful adaptation of Gary Brandner's original Howling novel, which means it shares more than a few … [Read more...]
The Marsupials: The Howling III (1987) review by That Film Geek
When the budget is too low to go big, and you don't have the talent to be clever about it, you have to go camp, and this goes so camp it's untrue. Directed by Phillipe Mora, also responsible for Howling II, The Marsupials: The Howling III takes the Werwolf series to Australia for this truly terrible outing that is the lowest ebb for the series until the disaster that is The … [Read more...]
Howling II (1985) review by That Film Geek
Despite the many sequels to Joe Dante's brilliant 1981 werewolf film The Howling, Howling II is the only one which directly follows or references the events of the original. It also seems to have two subtitles, either 'Your Sister is a Werewolf' which gives away a big and utterly pointless plot point or 'Stirba: Werewolf Bitch' which is more to the point. … [Read more...]
Frankenweenie (2012) review by That Film Guy
Director Tim Burton has a history of making films about social outcasts and characters who learn that it's ok to be different. Frankenweenie, based on a short film he created early in his career when working at Disney, which was rejected for being too dark. It acts as almost an overview of all of his previous canonical works and provides an open-minded look at the pressures of … [Read more...]
Carrie (1976) review by That Film Guy
Stephen King is one of the most famous authors in horror and latterly fantasy fiction. His books and short stories have been adapted into a variety of Hollywood films including IT, The Shawshank Redemption, Pet Cemetery and The Green Mile. The first adaptation of his work came in 1976 when Brian De Palma has handed the reigns over King's first ever novel Carrie. A huge … [Read more...]
The Howling (1981) review by That Film Geek
I had a theory that classic werewolf films were released every 20 years, starting in 1941 with Universal's classic 'The Wolfman' with Lon Chaney jr. as the afflicted lycanthrope, through 1961 with Hammer's 'Curse of the Werewolf' with Oliver Reed as the snarling lead. 1981 followed this trend with An American Werewolf in London, when David Naughton tore up London and the … [Read more...]
Arachnoquake (2012) review by That Film Klown
Arachnoquake tells the story of an earthquake which disturbs the mysterious underground habitat of an army of hyper-aggressive, blind, albino spiders “ many of which have superpowers. Unsurprisingly this is bad news for humans, especially the hapless folks of New Orleans who sign find themselves being chased, bitten, burned and used as living incubators for the next generation … [Read more...]