stan winston
20 Years On, Lake Placid Chomps Through Its Contemporaries [Retrospective]
20 years ago, in the magical summer of 1999, two, life-changingly brilliant creature features were released within just 12 days of each other; Deep Blue Sea, of which I am the unofficial, lifelong pub...
How Pumpkinhead Became a Cult Classic
Stan Winston’s Pumpkinhead is one of the most underrated monster movies of all time. It took a couple of years after completion for it to gain an audience, and then a few years after that for it to de...
Why Predator 2 Does Justice to the Original
I don’t have to tell anyone here what a great movie Predator is. Hopefully everyone knows that by now. It’s one of the defining action films of the 1980’s, it crosses genres in extremely imaginative w...
Why It’s Perfectly OK to Call Predator a Horror Movie
It’s one of the biggest, most influential science fiction epics of all time. Predator already is, without question, a blending of genres. It is all-out action and all-out sci-fi at the same time. You ...
Blu-ray Review – Pumpkinhead
Pumpkinhead, the film debut of FX genius Stan Winston, has always been a movie that’s needed more love. It’s become a bit of a cult classic, and is known among the hardcore horror fans, but it’s all b...
Creature Features – Scary Non-Human Species
In the dictionary, a creature is defined as “an animal, especially a nonhuman: the creatures of the woods and fields; a creature from outer space.” or “anything created, whether animate o...
Pumpkinhead Getting A Reboot?
[soliloquy id=”729″] Ah, late 1980’s/early 1990’s horror, or should I say “The Horror!”. Remember “Pumpkinhead” from 1988? Remember it’s three seq...
