Ed. note- I saw GREMLINS in the theatres in 1984. Fortunately, I didn’t have the worst sunburn of my life while watching it. Even more fortunately, I wasn’t watching GREMLINS 2.-[…]
Tag: Gremlins
MASTERS OF HORROR: HOMECOMING
Ed. note- Joe Dante’s episode from Season 1 of MOH has a lot in common with his cable-TV movie The Second Civil War. Except this one has zombies and a raging[…]
CONVENTION REPORT: Walker Stalker Con NY/NJ ’14
Ed. note- If I needed a proverbial nail in the convention coffin, this convention did the trick. It also pissed me off. The fact that it took me about four times[…]
Check out Walker Stalker Con in NJ with DE
Hot off the heels of my saying I’m taking a year-long sabbatical from conventions, I’m doing a quick turnaround by heading to Walker Stalker Con in New Jersey! Yes, I[…]
ALLIGATOR
Ed. Note- I’m looking forward to meeting Lewis Teague at Monster-Mania this weekend. It reminded me of this review I wrote ages ago, for Icons of Fright. I brushed it up[…]
Who Exactly Is Sharing These Scary Ghost Stories?
Ed. note- George Wyle, the man behind the lyrics I discuss below, also wrote the words for “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island,” which became a standard in the minds of classic[…]
GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH
Okay, so Phil isn’t exactly enamored with every movie Joe Dante’s made. To this day 22 years later, he can’t decide if the excruciating sunburn or GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH[…]
EXPLORERS
To honor Joe Dante upon the long awaited release of his new film THE HOLE, Phil takes us a bit beyond fright and reviews EXPLORERS, a much maligned Dante film[…]