The “found footage” cinema tool has been used—or in some cases, overused—by a legion of filmmakers. Some use the tool…
Browsing: Horror
Lionsgate Films has had some hits (“Saw,” “The Hunger Games,” “Twilight”) and some stinkers (virtually everything else). The 2009 Jonas…
With the recent resurgence in popularity of zombie fiction (“The Walking Dead”, “World War Z”, etc), I thought October would…
No movie genre comes closer to hit or miss standards like horror films. With difficulty achieving a truly great plot…
Horror films often draw on ordinary events, or, at the very least start with a rational idea before going through…
The 1983 Susan Hill novel, “The Woman in Black” spawned a 1987 play, a 1989 television movie, and in 2012…
As it stands now – the 2013 Halloween season – there are four movies written and directed by Israeli/American filmmaker…
Who would have that that when author Peter Benchley released his 1974 novel “Jaws” that it would end up being…
In my first review for The Movie Buff, I wanted to write a long flowery introduction about my history as…
2012-13 seems to be a return to America’s fascination with the cautionary tale. Last March saw the release of the…