The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a dark and suspenseful adaptation of the captain’s log from Bram Stoker’s 1897 Dracula novel. In the novel, the Demeter washes ashore with all the crew dead or missing. The only clues as to what happened aboard the derelict ship lie within the captain’s logbook. With little to go on from the original novel, the film expands on the premise to tell a compelling story of desperation and horror.
The film is visually…
Romero’s final zombie film in the Dead franchise (at least until Twilight of the Dead is released) is a bit of an embarrassment. Again, Romero misses the opportunity to tell another prequal story, this time following Brubaker (Alan van Sprang) from Land of the Dead before the events of that film. Instead, Sprang’s character is different despite being very similar to Brubaker. The whole family feud plot line was boring, and the grand finale was dull and unfulfilling. I appreciate…
I loved growing up through the latter part of the 80s. It was the greatest decade ever. And then Child’s Play came along in 1988. Constant nightmares and the threat by my parents of meeting Chucky when I acted out surely traumatized my younger self. The film, and more importantly Chucky himself, haunted my childhood. It would take almost three decades before I could muster up the courage to sit down and face my fears. And when I finally did,…
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB is a 1967 science fiction short film that put George Lucas on the map in the film industry. Created by Lucas as a student at the University of Southern California’s film school, Electronic Labyrinth is the story of one man escaping the confines of a futuristic dystopian city where your every move is controlled and monitored. Lucas did an excellent job making a futuristic film within the limits of technology in the late Sixties. There’s…
