Monday, August 4, 2025
Def by Temptation horror movie poster

Def By Temptation (1990)

That Def By Temptation may be the best film in the Troma oeuvre (which studio president Lloyd Kaufman claims in the DVD intro) is perhaps a dubious distinction, but...
Deep Blue Sea horror movie poster

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

I don't know if there's anyone who would describe anything Renny Harlin's ever done as "clever" -- except maybe "Clever how he tanked Geena Davis's career" -- but darnit...
Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill horror movie poster

Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill (2004)

As straight-to-video zombie films go, Death Valley is one of them. But more than that, it stands out for having two major black characters and an interesting racial subplot...
Death Row horror movie

Death Row (2007)

The Quiroz Brothers have unleashed a string of mediocre-at-best horror cheapies over the past few years, but I'll give them credit for one thing: each one has been better...
Deathly Realities horror movie poster

Deathly Realities (1985)

S. Torriano Berry, director of the early "urban horror" film The Embalmer and member of the Black Horror Movie Hall of Fame, had previously written and directed an African-American...
Elliott Gould in Dead Men Don't Die movie poster

Dead Men Don’t Die (1991)

I had assumed that the classic mammy stereotype died sometime between the cancellation of Beulah in the 1950s and the re-design of Aunt Jemima's waffle mix in the '80s,...
Dead Heist horror movie

Dead Heist (2007)

Looking at the DVD cover, I was prepared to mock this film mercilessly, but it turns out that Dead Heist is the opposite of those direct-to-video dregs that spend...
Day X horror movie poster

Day X (2005)

Led by a take-charge, opinionated black man, a ragtag group of survivors trapped in a building must work together to fend off a horde of flesh-eating zombies. Sound familiar?...
George Romero's Day of the Dead horror movie poster

Day of the Dead (1985)

Day of the Dead is generally considered the lesser (lessest?) of George Romero's "Dead trilogy" -- which technically is now up to six films -- and with good reason. While...
Dawn of the Dead (1978) horror movie poster

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Much beloved by horror geeks everywhere, Dawn of the Dead is considered by many to be an untouchable Holy Grail of horror. Well, allow me to touch it a...