Tag: 2000s
Loretta Devine defies the odds and survives a not one, but two horror films (this and its predecessor, Urban Legend). Sadly, the same can't be said for Anthony Anderson. Even more sadly, Joey Lawrence manages to survive. Plus, by dying in a horror film, a young Eva Mendes takes the...
Wow, I didn't think they made movies like this anymore...and I wish I was right. Urban Nightmare is a heinous throwback to '80s cop movies in which all minorities are ridiculously stereotyped criminals, and it's up the hard-boiled white cop to mop up the streets with 'em. In this...
I knew I was in trouble when I saw that the DVD cover for this film said "Vampire Assassins," while the title screen read the singular "Vampire Assassin". Damn, continuity issues before the movie even begins! The second warning sign came when 10 or 15 minutes passed without me seeing...
How can you tell if a horror film is "urban"? Misspelling! If they use "z" instead of "s" or "y" instead of "i" or "da" instead of "the," your oddz R da bomb yo! The description of this shot-on-film Z-grade flick says that Jakeem (Richard Carroll, Jr.) is framed...
If I didn't know any better, I'd guess that the goal of Vampz is to see how long it can feature sultry, lingerie-clad vampiresses having sex without showing them naked. What's the deal? I mean, really, how much would it take to get a Playmate like Serria Tawan to...
The Vault may be the worst of the Full Moon/Big City Pictures urban horror films -- which is quite an accomplishment -- not so much because the script, acting, or direction is so much below the others, but because the bad guy -- unlike in Killjoy, Ragdoll or even The...
Blaxploitation legends Fred Williamson, Richard Roundtree and Bernie Casey starring in a vampire movie? How could this possibly go wrong? Oh yeah -- because it actually stars Tom "Tiny" Lister, Glenn Plummer and Fredro Starr. The three iconic elder statesmen are sadly little more than window dressing in Vegas...
If zombies made a comeback in theatrical-release horror in 2004, then 2005 was the year for voodoo (albeit much less successfully), with Skeleton Key and Venom. Whereas Skeleton Key was a pleasant surprise, though, there's little pleasant about this amazingly bland horror entry (The SyFy-quality digital effects certainly don't...
Man, black people can't have anything to themselves. First, Elvis stole rock 'n roll. Then, Eminem nabbed hip-hop, and Miley Cyrus "invented" twerking. Sadly, there were no takers on the Jheri Curl. Now, apparently it's voodoo's turn. Eric Maibus, who starred in the third Crow film, plays a similar...
I knew I was in for some deep-tissue pain when this movie opened with a voiceover that sounds more like a fifth-grade book report:
Every Mardi Gras, college girls have ended up missing. Nobody knows who is kidnapping the girls, but legend has it that there is a bayou cult...
