Silence of the Lambs: Quid Pro Quo
Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster. Photo: Orion Rumor has it that author Thomas Harris has never seen the film adaptation of his novel “The Silence of the Lambs”. If it’s…
The Ring Two
After the horrific events in Seattle, Rachel Keller and son (Naomi Watts, David Dorfman) move to a small town but they can’t escape Samara the ghost. The man who made…
Aliens: Mother Against Mother
Sigourney Weaver. Photo: 20th Century Fox When I first heard about this film, I was 11 or 12 years old and pretty much a novice when it came to movies.…
Pet Sematary II
Geoff Matthews's (Edward Furlong) horror-movie star mother dies in a freak accident; he and his father (Anthony Edwards) move to a small town where a pet cemetery hides a burial…
The Omen
Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber), the American ambassador to Britain, begins to suspect that his five-year-old son could be the anti-Christ. This remake of the 1976 classic uses the color red…
What Lies Beneath
Claire Spencer (Michelle Pfeiffer) discovers that she and hubby Norman (Harrison Ford) live in a haunted house; learning the identity of the spirit puts both her marriage and life at…
The Omen: Arrival of the Antichrist
Lee Remick. Photo: 20th Century Fox In 1973, The Exorcist had been a tremendous hit and came to spawn copies throughout the 1970s. The most successful of these diabolical films…
28 Days Later: The End of Britain
Cillian Murphy. Photo: DNA Films Danny Boyle is emerging as one of the most interesting British directors of our time. Not only because he is obviously gifted, but also because…
Psycho
A few changes were made to this scene-by-scene remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece, but in each instance they add nothing. The use of color makes the movie less scarier…
Halloween: Resurrection
After a final showdown with Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), Michael Myers returns to his childhood home – which college kids have turned into the setting of a reality show.…