Director Ronny Yu (“Bride of Chucky”) has cast at the silver screen a film so gorifyingly spitter-splatter, so ghoulishly cornball, so petrifyingly whoop-ass, that your humble narrator couldn’t help but root-root his balled fists all the way up to the wholly satisfactory climax. Indeed, as Freddy and Jason clash machete to finger-blade in the last

It is now official. The age of subtlety, patience and intelligence in the horror industry is dead and, unfortunately, it won’t be resurrected anytime soon. To view George Romero’s 1978 masterwork “Dawn of the Dead” before watching the remake puts this case in point. Romero’s film, though seemingly clear-cut on the surface, was really an

“Cabin Fever” is your prototypical film that puts forth a somewhat coherent plotline for the first 35 minutes or so, only to swerve off-road and nose-dive into a bog bubbling with senseless, barf-inducing filth. Set up quite similarly to “Evil Dead,” “Cabin Fever” tracks five college students who pack their belongings for a weekend getaway

“Leaving Las Vegas” was a brilliant account of the destructive nature of alcohol. In an Oscar-garnering performance, Nicolas Cage was impeccable as a deadbeat drunk. “Cold Creek Manor” is trite, sense-numbing cinema. In a Raspberry-worthy performance, Dennis Quaid is an act-on-impulse dimwit. Believe it or not, both of these films were presented to you, the

The preview sent flocks of moviegoers shivering out of theaters. Upon hearing reports of grave-robbing and corpse exhibition in the vicinity of a family cemetery amid the jostling tumbleweeds of Texas, five college-aged buddies sets out to investigate the matter. As it turns out, the burial plot is undisturbed. However, instead of returning homeward, the

Wham. Bam. Pow. Huh? Kaboom! Chuckle chuckle. Yeah, “The Rundown” was one of those films. In Dwayne Douglas Johnson’s (The Rock) finest on-screen performance to date, he portrays Beck, a retrieval expert/aspiring chef with a titanium endoskeleton. Or so it seems, at least, as his massive frame is contorted in every way imaginable, only to