January 9, 2016 Midnight screening at the IFC Center in NYC HORROR OF RECLINING CHAIRS I rarely make it out to the movies. Between my exhausting[…]
Tag: Joe Dante
GREMLINS
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.-[…]
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
I was about 10 years old when I first saw John Landis’ AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. The flick made quite an impression on me then, with its mix of scary[…]
MASTERS OF HORROR: SICK GIRL (TV)
Ed. note- Lucky McKee is by no means a master of horror. But his MOH episode masterfully fits into this volume of Opening the Vaults. It’s one goopy, buggy delight.- P.F.[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
