Joe and Patrick’s summer vacation has just begun, and already their parents make them want to run away. But where can suburban teenage boys go to escape? Joe gets an idea: they’ll build their own hous...

What have they done to Mickey Mouse? The poster for the indie film Escape from Tomorrow shows Mickey’s gloved hand reaching up, as blood drips from his fingers. Despite the use of Mickey and the famil...

The movie Carrie (1976) came out long before bullying became a public concern. Now that we take the issue seriously, Stephen King’s horror story about a girl tormented by her peers has new relevance....

When it came to his ideas about movie-making, Walt Disney wasn’t used to hearing the word “no”—much less “No, no, no, no, no!” But loud protests were exactly what he got from Pamela L. Travers, author...

Disney has found the Next Big Thing. The Disney Channel’s Teen Beach Movie surpassed even High School Musical in ratings. So get ready to see more of Tanner, Rascal, Cheechee, Dopey and Grumpy (okay,...

Imagine Rosemary’s Baby remade as a comedy. Now, what if the baby was a demon instead of the Antichrist? And what if it came not from a woman’s womb but a man’s colon? That’s the premise of Bad Milo!...

The poster for the documentary Particle Fever almost makes it look like a sequel to The Ring . It’s a simple image of a circle in white and colored lines. The tagline doesn’t explain much, either: “Wi...

When rock star Rob Zombie crossed over to make horror movies, it kind of made sense. In his solo career, he wrote songs like “Living Dead Girl” and “American Witch.” His earlier band White Zombie took...

“I got news,” Michael Douglas says in the trailer to the movie Last Vegas , coming out in November. “I’m getting married.” When it’s revealed that his fiancée is much younger, it seems like a sly in-...