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 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...
