After a comet passes close to earth, all the people who were watching the event are gone (only little piles of dust remain) and the few survivors left must deal with the post apocalyptic aftermath. People who were exposed to the comet, but didn't turn to dust, became zombies. The main character is a high school senior named Regina who is somewhat of a…

This is one mess of a movie. One part horror, one part comedy, one part romance. That's an awkward combo even when it's not directed by horror master Wes Craven. Eddie Murphy plays Maximillian, a vampire who arrives in New York by boat and wants to find his soulmate, a half vampire police detective played by Angela Bassett. It's like Bram Stoker's Dracula meets…

In the summer of 1984, a teenage boy becomes obsessed with his theory that a neighbor is the local serial killer who kidnaps and murders boys. He convinces his friends to search for evidence to support his theory. There was a lot to like in this movie. It was mysterious. The characters are likable and there is a good dynamic among the four friends.…

Well, they made a sequel and it's a stinker. Basically, they amplified the sex and gore, while dumbing down the story even further. Luckily, not many people went to see it in the theater, so they only ended up making two more direct-to-video sequels. The movie starts with three astronauts on a mission to Mars. One of the soil samples they collected, contained some…

I vaguely remember seeing this movie in the theater when it came out. It's one of those horror movies that tries really hard to be exactly like every other horror movie, but it keeps moving fast enough to engage the viewer. The beginning shows an anthropologist guy in South America involved in some tribal ritual before heading back to Chicago with some cargo for…

This is definitely one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. It almost starts to venture back into the "so bad it's good territory". The basic premise is that a meteor crash lands on a farm and this alien goop seeps into the water, which then starts turning people into acne monsters with zombie-like tendencies. The only real "talent" involved is…

As a teenage boy, this movie had everything. Blood, aliens, and boobs. The story starts with a prologue implying that S.E.T.I. picked up on some alien radio transmission. It then dives straight into the action with a super human teen girl escaping from a government research facility. The head of the facility, played by Ben Kingsley, assembles a team of scientists (and a hitman)…

This is Italian horror at its finest. Directed by Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei, Zombi 3 is a schlock rip-off of Romero's Night of the LivingDead series. Everything about it is over-the-top, outrageous, and extreme. The story starts with a scientist injecting a corpse with a serum he created called Death One. The corpse comes back to life and thus begins our odyssey. The serum…

A dumpster-diving father (Ryan Phillipe) finds an ornate Chinese box and gives it to his daughter, Clare (Joey King), as a gift. Little does she know, the box grants its owner seven wishes in exchange for a blood price. In other words, with every wish, someone dies. It's kind of a Wishmaster meets Final Destination movie, and it somehow works out even though the movie is a…

It's crazy that this is the 9th year of doing 31 horror movie reviews in October. At one point, a couple of years ago, I thought I'd run out of horror movies, but not only are there thousands I've never seen, there are at least 30 coming out new each year. I have an enormous spreadsheet of possible horror movies and it keeps growing.…