Loron Hays

Make no mistake, Panic Room - hailing all the way from the year 2002 - is director David Fincher ’s underrated masterpiece. There are moments of suspense in this neo-noir gem which are definitely not...
The election’s over, friends. It’s time to chew bubblegum and kick ass again! Director John Carpenter had a nice run, didn’t he? Between the late 1970’s and the early 1990’s, Carpenter was king of sci...
This is one hell of a deadly mousetrap! Opening with a seriously twisted tooth extraction, I Heart Willie is not the cartoon character origin story you might be expecting . . . especially if you have...
What movie? You didn’t tell me about any movie! The meta is strong in the remake of The Blob . Too bad this remake often gets ignored by snobs because this version gets a lot of things about remakes d...
Osgood Perkins , who brought us last year’s unexpected little horror gem Longlegs , is back with an adaptation of Stephen King ’s short story called The Monkey , a curious blend of absurdist humor and...
Thirty years have gone by already since David Fincher unleashed his masterful beast of a thriller and reinvigorated his feature career ( Alien 3 did not go well for him, and he returned to commercials...
Action. Atmosphere. And Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken saying things like, "Sad story. You got a smoke?" Do I really need to say any more? Escape from New York , from writer/director John Carpenter ,...
While Captain America: Brave New World might be one of Marvel ’s lowest-rated films, averaging poorly among critics, it seems audiences love it, propelling it to the top of this weekend’s list of top-...
While this prolonged season of cold - full of icy chills - still holds a tight and frigid grip over most of America this year, it seems certainly appropriate to embrace the gothic nature of winter wit...
Because who doesn’t like a practical joke?! “On a clear day you can see the Kennedys.” That line of dialogue is one of the many clever lines in this cult classic from 1986. April Fool’s Day , directed...
When this film was originally released FIFTEEN YEARS AGO , we really wanted writer/director Sam Raimi to be back in the business of scaring the pants off of us and making us howl with laughter. We got...
When it comes to auteurship, Russ Meyer was a total badass. There’s simply no other way to put it and his films, everything from Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls , stand...
Ya got anymore of those horror flicks about nude nuns coming to terms with their beliefs and some creaky churches?! Turns out, there’s plenty. Especially when there are two men involved with the conve...
Hugs and kisses to the Rat King! Opening with an eye-bleeding and gut-retching scene, Street Trash - much like the original film from 1987 - challenges the decent taste of its audience. This time, tho...
Jackie Brown is one badass motherfucker. This film, full of extremely smart characters who are all trying to outmaneuver their competition over Ordell’s $500,000 “retirement”, continues to be the ugly...
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