William Friedkin's had a strange career. His first two features were a Sonny & Cher vehicle and an adaptation of a Harold Pinter play (Good Times, The Birthday Party). In the early and mid-1970s, Friedkin joined the ranks of the New Hollywood A-list...
I'm pretty biased when it comes to evaluating the films of David Cronenberg. I've seen all of his feature films and most of his short films, and I like every single one of them. Really like. My admiration for each individual film varies, and a handful...
After a 1950s-set prologue, Pumpkinhead opens with kick-ass character actor Lance Henriksen (Dead Man, Aliens, Near Dark, The Terminator, The Right Stuff, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dog Day Afternoon) burning some trash with a flamethrower....
Not to be confused with Howard Stern's auto-hagiography, Paul Bartel's Private Parts is another great movie from the seemingly bottomless pit of interesting-to-good-to-great films from the 1970s. Bartel, who died of a heart attack in 2000 shortly after...
The makers of Prison came up with a solid idea. Let's combine the most entertaining cliches of the prison movie with the most entertaining cliches of the possessed/haunted house movie. Then let's set it in Wyoming and get some inexperienced pretty boy...