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Clare Kramer - "The Gravedancers" Movie - 411mania.com Review

Webmaster — 2007-10-07T10:39:48Z

31 Years, 31 Screams: The Gravedancers
Director Mike Mendez made a head-turning genre debut a few years ago with the horror-comedy The Convent, and, while this follow-up is more serious in tone, it's still mostly successful.
Like many horror films, including a few from the After Dark Horrorfest film festival, The Gravedancers uses one of those old urban legends whose sole purpose is to scare us into not engaging in bad behavior. In this case, it's not picking up hitchhikers, nor is it (...) - Reviews

Clare Kramer - "The Thirst" Movie - Nytimes.com Review

Webmaster — 2007-06-12T08:41:56Z

IF you're one of those troubled creatures who lurk around the nethermost shelves of the video store, you already know one of Hollywood's dark secrets: Every year scores of horror movies never make it to the screen at all and are instead dumped right onto the DVD market, where they earn a total of about $150 million a year. According to a trailer from Lionsgate, which last fall packaged some of these DVD releases as an “After Dark HorrorFest: Eight Movies to Die For,” this is (...) - Reviews / no_preview

Clare Kramer - "The Thirst" Movie - Dvdtalk.com Review

Webmaster — 2007-05-03T21:33:36Z

Jeremy Kasten's The Thirst borrows quite heavily from films like Near Dark and Requiem for a Dream, and by "borrows quite heavily" what I actually mean is "steals quite blatantly." But at least the CFQ Films production team is honest about it: On the front of the DVD case is a quote that reads "Requiem for a Dream meets Near Dark." The source of the quote is CFQ Magazine.
Only Requiem for a Dream is a stunningly sober film, while The Thirst is overwhelmingly campy. And Near Dark is smart (...) - Reviews