Cinefantastique Online

Cinefantastique's Los Angeles Correspondent from 1987 to 1993 and West Coast Editor from 1993 to 1999. Currently the webmaster of Cinefantastique Online, I also run a website called Hollywood Gothique that covers Halloween Horror and Sci-Fi Cinema Events in the Los Angeles area.

Universal Studios Hollywood officially premiered the newest attraction on its famous theme park tour, a live stage musical titled THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: A RAGING, ROCKIN SHOW. This twenty-five minute show condenses the plot from the 1954 classic, starring Richard Carlson and Julie Adams, adding a bunch of songs and dialogue heavy with [...]

“Zombie Nazis” sounds like an unbeatable combination, but it turns out to be one of those great ideas that cannot sustain itself purely on the concept alone (unlike, say the “Soup Nazi” episode of SEINFELD, which could have earned classic status merely on the basis of its title). Although DEAD SNOW has its heart in [...]

In another sign that cinefantastique rules the summer box office,  TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN made its debut at #1 despite spite of overwhelmingly negative critical reactions. Michael Bay’s explosive sequel to TRANSFORMERS earned an estimated $112-million in over 4,200 North American theatres over the three-day span from Friday through Sunday. The added revenue from [...]

Variety reports that Duncan Jones’ debut feature MOON has won the Michael Powell Award for new British feature at this year’s 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival.
“Moon,” a sci-fi thriller directed by Brit rookie Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell, was arguably the fest’s biggest success. Arriving with Internet buzz from its Sundance premiere, it was [...]

According to the trailer, the title is “Halloween II” with a roman numeral, not “Halloween 2.”

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Halloween 2 opens August 28

Trade paper Hollywood Reporter has posted a review of GIALLO, which recently screened at a festival in Edinburg. Their assessment is that the film, directed by Dario Argento and starring Adrien Brody,  is a “clunky by-the-numbers Euro-thriller” that “wastes the talents of its star and veteran director.”
This unlikely-on-paper, underwhelming-in-execution collaboration between Oscar winner Brody and [...]

Very funny coming attractions for the comedy horror film starring Woody Harrelson as a self-styled zombie-killer.

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Zombieland opens October 9

Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS sequel is less science fiction spectacle than an excursion into abstract cinema
No other critic is going to admit it, so it falls to me to declare  that director Michael Bay is an abstract artist whose work is continuously misinterpreted. The conventional wisdom is that Bay is a no-talent uber-Hollywood hack, who churns out formulaic [...]

IFC will release ANTICHRIST - the sexy, violent, controversial art house shocker from Lars Von Triers (KINGDOM) - on October 23. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe star; Gainsbourg won the best actress award at Cannes this year for her role. After the limited bow, IFC will expand to more venues, depending on how well the [...]

In this video clip from the live-action adaptation of the popular anime title, Saya (Gianna Jun) fights off a horde of blood-thirsty demons while Allison (Alice Mckee) tries to avoid getting in the way.

Helicopters fly into battle with the Transformers.

Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox avoid evil Transformers in the desert.