The late '90s and '00s were a weird forgotten golden age for crocodile and alligator horror flicks. The best were in two series: You had Steve Miner's "Lake Placid" in 1999, Tobe Hooper's "Crocodile" in 2000, Gary Johnson's follow up "Crocodile 2" in 2002 and the Todd...

There is a lot of controversy surrounding "Smiley," a 2012 horror film written and directed by a man named Michael Gallagher. I don't know much about Gallagher and don't want to know anything. The same goes for the various online groups who allegedly took offense over...

It's a shame that "Leprechaun 2" wasn't the first film in the series. People tend to assume that the first movie in a horror franchise should be considered the "main" one, with all of the sequels being lesser by default. Yet while I am a big fan of one of the...

Watching "Pilgrim" is a bit like reading a great scary short story... but one in which a few key pages are missing near the end. To be clear, there is much more about "Pilgrim" that I liked than not. It is masterful in its use of suspense to build tension and, when it...

As I ranked the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies near the end of 2019, I had no trouble figuring out that "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is the best of the lot. In my own words: "It is a perfect MCU movie because every element works just right: The...