Tag: Creature Feature

The Fiancé (2016) – Baron Craze

February 26, 2021
Film Reviews

  A few things to understand about this movie from director Mark Allen Michaels, it’s his second feature, though his first in the horror genre, and his first attempt as a screenwriter. The Fiancé mixes a few genres together, first horror (creature feature), next comedy, smattering of romance, and a touch of drama, now sadly…

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The Meg (2018) – By Creepy Crazy Cathy (AKA 3C)

January 19, 2021
Film Reviews

    My nephew brought over one of his movies he got for Christmas and it just happened to be The Meg so I thought I would take some time to review it; another shark movie and in this case is a pre-historic enormous shark called a megalodon. It has a lot of similarities to…

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Alligator (1980) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2020
Articles

The horror film genre prides itself with taking folklore and urban legends and morphing them into scary movies or just solid tales to entertain audiences, well screenwriter John Sayles (Piranha [1978]) did that with Frank Ray Perilli’s (Laserblast [1978]) story.  Its concerns the story of how pet gators are flushed down a toilet and then…

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Indigenous (2014) – By Baron Craze

November 29, 2020
Archived Reviews

Alistair Orr’s Indigenous begins, as many modern creature-features do, with a group of young tourists venturing into the jungles of Darien Gap in a foreign country Panama, a real place and actually shot on location, which helps sell the pending terror. The film adds in the elements of b-movie fare, but sluggish at best, as humor fades…

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The Barge People (2018) – By Baron Craze

August 31, 2020
Film Reviews

Often a filmmaker will put a scene into their movies to reference or even play homage to a classic horror film, such as in Lost After Dark [2015] did a scene in ode to Zombie [1979]; well director Charlie Steeds does the similar thing, except his entire movie becomes a love letter to those movies…

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World Television premiere of The Beast Beneath

July 31, 2020
Horror News

Premiere of prolific filmmaker Dustin Ferguson’s The Beast Beneath starring Genre stars Brinke Stevens & Mel Novak.   The much anticipated world television premiere of prolific filmmaker Dustin Ferguson’s (Angry Asian Murder Hornets, 5G Zombies), new creature feature The Beast Beneath starring genre stars Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre, Nightmare Sisters) & Mel Novak…

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Tremors (1990) – By Baron Craze

April 30, 2020
Articles

Time to revisit another classic creature feature that I enjoyed so much, herein 2020, it’s now celebrating 30-years and spawned countless sequels, and even a spin-off, but not much in the merchandise market for the fans, hence species of Tremors (aka: Graboids) the fearful underground dwelling beast. It had the ability to sense vibrations on…

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It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Archived Reviews

  Robert Gordon directed a little more than the average creature feature from screenwriters George Worthing Yates and Hal Smith, because not only feature the talents of Ray Harryhausen’s special effects, but that it gives Faith Domergue’s role as an independent professor (more on this later). Yates truly understood the new dimension of horror with creatures…

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DOA Review: Jurassic Prey (2015) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Film Reviews

    CASE NUMBER #008 Another week has come upon us to return to the land of horrendous movies, which dot the graveyard of the horror genre, and to discover if their burial is best left untouched. Though with this column you can see some filmmakers have attempted the impossible with disastrous results, and this…

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The Relic (1997) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2019
Film Reviews

Authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childhad had their novel The Relic adapted into a b-movie creature feature, that serves the audience with creeps and enlighten entertainment, which incorporates cultural mythology, a mystery-story and superstition, yet omits key portions of the actual novel, while combining several characters into a few people, and finally switching the storylines…

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