Tag: Donald Pleasence

Alone in the Dark: Forgotten Home Invasion Thriller Worth a Few Scares

September 23, 2021.Reading time 8 minutes.

Before New Line Cinemas struck gold with the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, it was largely an independent film distribution company. By the 1980s, New Line was slowly breaking into producing its own original movies. Not surprisingly, one of its early successes was a small horror movie – Alone in the Dark. And no, not […]

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Rob Zombie’s Halloween: A Flawed But Disturbing Remake

August 31, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

After last year’s successful Halloween sequel, it’s almost hard to believe that just over ten years ago the franchise was getting rebooted. Following the dismal Halloween: Resurrection, a remake helmed by Rob Zombie promised a lot of upside for fans of the franchise. Few filmmakers could boast such a reverence for the source material and […]

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