Well, what do you think? For me, I can tell you that I like it! It seems, dark, serious, and no joke! Godzilla looks amazing, not like that iguana/raptor looking thing from 98...oh no....THIS IS GODZILLA! I grew up on this stuff. My father used to take me to the movies in Washington Heights to see Godzilla films when they were finally released here in the US. I used to look through the TV Guide every week to see if they were playing any Godzilla movies on the TV...for those of you who are very young...we only had like 14 channels....And let's not forget those Friday afternoon Godzilla marathons on channel 9 the day after Thanksgiving. I used to eat a left over turkey sandwich as I watched Godzilla fight either King Kong, or Hedorah, or that big Lobster thingy in the ocean....awesome. Enough of my rant regarding my glee….let’s get into the meat of it. First you see these soldiers being given instructions before their mission. At first you think this is just another mil...

I love vampires....not the silly Twilight versions mind you, I'm talking about hardcore, gothic, kill em all vamps. Out of all of the vampire films that have arisen since the heydays of Dracula and the Hammer films, there are two series I absolutey love involving vampires...True Blood and Underworld. Underworld is more of a fantasy series as opposed to horror. I tell you it's something that has come out of comic books and video games. An age old hostiltiy between vampires and werewolves (Likens) goes terribly wrong when it involves the descendant of Alexander Corvinus, the founding father of both races. It kind of reminds me of how Abraham is the father of both Jews and Arabs and how there is hostility there. All you have to do is read the newspapers and you see it there blazing at you in black and white. It's an interesting parallel. In the first Underworld film, we see our hero, Seline (played by Kate Beckensale)getting too involved in an undercover plot to eliminate...

I bugged out when I found out that matter is simply condensed energy…energy that has been contained. I basically came to the conclusion that even us feeble creatures have more power in us than we give ourselves credit for. Without sounding too much like a nerd (too late….) the concept of the atom and the energy it contains is not even a century old. The atom and it’s parts were discovered in the early decades of the 20th century. But the realness of its full potential was realized during the Second World War when the United States, along with the most brilliant minds of science at the time, created the first nuclear weapon. It was this weapon that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, officially ending World War II with the Japanese surrendering and having to deal with the horrors of what this weapon has done.  For the first time in history the human species has been able to harness and use the power that before was reserved for nature only…in the insides of the stars…yep….bill...

Tom Savini is arguably the best make up artist of all the horror films. Oh sure we can call out many others throughout the years, but his work in films like Dawn of the Dead (1979), and Friday The Thirteenth IV The Final Chapter (Or so we thought….) is downright uncontested as being the most awesome work in the horror film genre. Yet there is only one thing that bothers me as I watch these films and others like it alongside my fellow horror fanatics…and that is their idea of what drives them to see the horror films in the first place. Is it the effects of blood gore and guts or the fright element of the unknown that makes us jump out of our seat? I think there is a thin line between the two and I want to just rant about that for a bit in this article. John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) continues to be my point of reference in regards to this contest between gore and scare. I say this because if you watch this film, there’s really no blood in the film at all. No gut entrails….no ...

A big part of the horror film genre has always been ghosts and demons. These things have not ceased to scare the pants off of us because they tap into a part of us that may consider such things to be true. No, I’m not talking about Casper the friendly ghost and Bill Cosby’s Ghost Dad. I’m talking about the possibility that there may be a world outside our physical realm that cannot be explained by the natural order of things. Perhaps after a person dies, they continue to exist in a state that we cannot understand or explain until we go through that door on our deathbeds. Our personalities…our “I”s……continue to exist after our bodies cease to. It’s the great unknown. It’s scary. Many scientists doubt it…atheists scoff at it, and Hollywood has made money out of it. The supernatural has our attention, and the movie industry is eating it up. As a child I remember films like Burnt Offerings and The House on Haunted Hill, which were very spooky. I used to stick more closely to mo...

“ I met this 6 year old boy with this blank, pale, emotionless face and the blackest eyes….the Devil’s eyes. I spent 10 years trying to reach him and 5 years trying to keep him locked up because what I saw in that boy’s eyes was purely and simply….evil.” Dr. Sam Loomis I remember seeing commercials for John Carpenter’s Halloween back in the fall of 1978. I was living in Washington Heights for a time and I knew that whatever this film was I wanted no part in it. It scared me. I remember the face…the mask. Pale, devoid of passion, of anything alive. I just ignored the previews and I just kept right along as I reached for my Darth Vader costume to get ready to trick or treat…. Halloween was a landmark film in its own right. Just a few years earlier, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released….and it shocked audiences with a similar chaos as did the Exorcist around that same time. Leatherface with his human skin mask and the chainsaw…running, screaming….total anarchy….as scary as that was…...

Zombies…..we all fear zombies. The apocalyptic tales of a world gone completely mad with the dead coming back to life to feed on the living has become a cultural phenomenon since its inception back in the late 1960’s with George A. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead. The concept of zombies actually has a much older origin. Dating back to the religions in West Africa, the idea that bringing a person back to life with a spell was well known. The person making the spell was called a bokor. The person being brought back was then under the control of the bokor because the person had no more self will. These traditions and practices were then brought over later to the Caribbean Islands like Haiti and practiced in both Hatian and Creole communities under the voodoo religions. A certain kind of powder was known to put human beings into an almost coma like state that simulated death. They would then be buried alive and when the chemical wore off it just would not be a good situation to be in. ...

Which witch is which? I’m getting confused now. Is it me or has there been an increase in films and television shows about witches? I think back on the television series Bewitched….that was a long time ago, and when I was watching that I was a kid and the show was already a rerun (I’m no t THAT old…) but then a return took place with the television show Charmed. That was in my view a very diverse show. There was everything there from witches, to angels to demons to God knows what. Now we have films like The Craft. Even the recent installments of Paranormal Activity had elements of witches and covens tied in to explain the possession of poor Katie. Witchmania is sweeping the nation. We can’t get enough of it. Now we have American Horror Story-Coven. It just started under two weeks ago and already I’m hooked. What I’ve loved about the American Horror Story series is that they put in various elements of horror in one show that you almost forget what the center issue is…and then in a ...

“It means the Lord of the Dead…the end of summer…the festival of Samhain…October 31st.”- Dr. Sam Loomis, Halloween II I am completely blown away at how the concept of Halloween has become an incredible staple in our society. It’s a fun time of the year for getting dressed in cool costumes, going trick or treating, and having parties. It’s a celebration of just having fun of sorts. Actually, I don’t like the word “celebration” because it suggests a more serious and even religious tone to the day of Halloween. Some people tell me they don’t “celebrate” Halloween. Well, I don’t either. I take my kids trick or treating and that’s all. So what’s the point you’re making? And what’s with this “Happy Harvest”crap? It’s PC jargon. Happy Halloween dammit! Have some candy! And this thing about Halloween being the Devil’s birthday? Stop it. Stop it right now…. In any case Halloween does indeed have its origins very early on in our history on this earth. It actually began in the British land...