Inside the pantheon of great science-fiction/fantasy filmmakers is a special hall dedicated to producer George Pal. George Pal is one of my favorite people. His films not only entertained me, they inspired me. I still count “The Time Machine” among my all time favorite films. Read the rest of this entry »

“Tremors” is director Ron Underwood’s giddy throwback to the great monster movies of the 1950s. Working from a funny and exciting script by Brent Maddox and S.S. Wilson, Underwood has fashioned a solid piece of escapist entertainment. Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon are excellent as the two small desert town dwelling buddies who will seemingly do anything for money, including pumping out septic tanks. Read the rest of this entry »

Writer-director Rusty Cundieff and writer-producer Darin Scott pay homage to the great horror omnibus “Tales from the Crypt” with this urban update. Three gang-bangers’s plans to rob a mortician of drugs goes South when the mortician (Clarence Williams III in a fright wig) invites them into his parlor, and then weaves four tales of horror. Read the rest of this entry »