Needful Things Not a Necessary Stephen King Adaptation

The 1990s saw a boom and bust field of Stephen King adaptations make their way to both the big and small screen. Hollywood delivered some classics including The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and Misery. There were some middling ones including The Dark Half and Apt Pupil. And we got quite a few forgettable duds […]

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Stigmata a Forgettable Attempt to Cash In On the Late 90s Millennium Panic

Along with Bless the Child, End of Days, and Lost Souls, Stigmata was a religious-themed horror movie produced in anticipated of the Millennium. In the months proceeding the calendar flipping to the year 2000, there were plenty of Y2K-themed moral panics. Never one to miss a bandwagon, the horror genre obliged by producing a slate […]

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Disturbing Behavior a Teen-Lite Take on The Stepford Wives

When Scream shocked the box office in the mid-1990s, it didn’t just reinvigorate the slasher subgenre. Suddenly, the teen horror market was booming like it was the mid-80s. In addition to I Know What You Did Last Summer and Urban Legend, teen horror movies like Teaching Ms. Tingle, The Faculty, and Idle Hands were flooding […]

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Candyman Day of the Dead Offers No Sweets For Fans of The Original Movie

Somewhere between the 90s classic Candyman and the recent, equally good remake of the same name, two Candyman sequels made their way to the direct-to-video market. Neither of these sequels generated much in the way of positive buzz. However, the first of those sequels, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh at least had some positives, earning […]

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Spawn An Early Comic Book Adaptation That Fails to Bring Hell to Earth

Looking back, the year 1997 was not a good one for superhero movies. Of course, Joel Schumacher’s (Flatliners) Batman & Robin is the fiasco with which cinephiles are most familiar. But 1997 is also the same year that dropped Mortal Kombat: Annihilation later in the fall. Somewhere in between these two turkeys, New Line Cinema […]

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Sleepstalker May Be The Quintessential 1990s Straight-to-Video Horror Movie

Traditionally, horror movies, particularly the slasher genre, have played fast and loose with rules the serial killer that populate their movies. Neither Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers are supernatural killers. Yet that hasn’t stopped the Friday the 13th and Halloween series from bringing their respective killers back from sequel to sequel. Other horror movies skirted […]

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