ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, JAN. 31, 2013 Warm Bodies is a whoppingly insignificant zombie rom-com clearly aimed at scraping up any cash the horror-lite crowd hasn’t already blown on Twilight. The movie opens with Nicholas Hoult’s zombie character—later named just R because zombies make a lot of growling “arrrr” sounds—shuffling through a post-apocalypse airport while his voice-over … Continue reading Horror review: Warm Bodies
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Horror review: Jonah Hex
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, JUNE 18, 2010 Prolific director William “One Shot” Beaudine pretty well invented the horror-western in 1966, with the twin features Billy the Kid vs. Dracula and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, but it wasn’t until Kathryn Bigelow helmed the bloodsuckers-in-the-dust epic Near Dark in ’87 that the genre produced a real winner. From what I’ve heard, … Continue reading Horror review: Jonah Hex