FW MOVIE PICK: GRINDHOUSE

Filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez pay tribute to exploitation films of the 1970s with two features in one. Tarantino directs “Death Proof,” a slasher film, and Rodriguez directs “Planet Terror,” a zombie movie. Fictitious ads and movie trailers run during each feature’s intermission. Machete starring Danny Trejo is hyper-violent and entertaining enough to warrant […]

FW MOVIE PICK: THE SHINING

It’s one of the most popular Stephan King adaptations ever made and known for being the one that the writer himself hated because of it deviating from the book! Jack Torrance becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer’s block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy, […]

FW MOVIE PICK: CHILD’S PLAY (2019)

Despite the fact that there have been seven Chucky Movies at this point along with an upcoming TV Series; Orion Pictures still owned the rights to the first “Child’s Play” Movie; which means they’re allowed to do a reboot that nobody asked for including myself! After moving to a new city, young Andy Barclay receives […]

FW MOVIE PICK: IT CHAPTER TWO

It goes without saying that most horror movies don’t clock in at nearly three hours, but here we are and considering the fact that the Stephen King Novel is one thousamd pages long; it made sense to split the movie into two parts! Defeated by members of the Losers’ Club, the evil clown Pennywise returns […]

FW MOVIE PICK: VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1995)

This remake to “Village of the Damned” is best known for being the last publicly released film Reeve starred in before he was paralyzed on May 27, 1995 from a horse race which left him a spinal cord injury, causing quadriplegia; but other than that how does the movie fare!? Ten months after the small […]

FW MOVIE PICK: CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED

What makes this sequel to “Village of the Damned” so distinct is that the children are from various countries – China, India, Nigeria, the Soviet Union, the United States of America and the UK; but even still does it make for a good movie!? The United Nations conducts a global survey on child development, identifying […]

FW MOVIE PICK: VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960)

Well this timeless certainly classic proves that even children can be scary in horror movies and once you watch it you’ll understand way that is! One day the peaceful village of Midwich is cast into a mysterious sleep for several hours, but with no obvious consequences, until soon all the women of child-bearing age turn […]

FW MOVIE PICK: THE INVASION

The fourth adaptation of “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers” is the one that I’m know of and it is the most underwhelming version! Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig) are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through […]

FW MOVIE PICK: BODY SNATCHERS

The third adaptation of “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers” is the one that I’m not familiar with and it is the most grounded version! When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone (Terry Kinney) travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. […]

FW MOVIE PICK: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)

The second adaptation of “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers” is the one that I’m aware of and it is the most complex version! This remake of the classic horror film is set in San Francisco. Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) assumes that when a friend (Brooke Adams) complains of her husband’s strange mood, it’s a […]