http://cinefantastiqueonline.com Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:22:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Dan Persons What I wanted to believe was that, despite conventional wisdom, one could go home again. What I wanted to believe was that a creative team, given six years to look back and rediscover the passion they once had for a project, would be able to channel that passion ... http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/07/24/film-review-the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/ This is a misleadingly titled giallo thriller in the tradition of Dario Argento's THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET, and CAT O'NINE TAILS. Director Antonio Bido also borrows several stylistic tropes from Argento, particularly from DEEP RED: harsh violence; point-of-view shots; a repetitive, insistent main theme ... http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/07/24/film-dvd-review-cat-with-jade-eyes-1977/ The American Cinematheque will soon be launching its eighth annual Festival of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror, which will screen at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Special events will include the U.S. debut of RE-CYCLE (the new film from EYE-directors Danny & Oxide ... http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/07/23/hollywood-gothique-american-cinematheques-festival-of-sci-fi-fantasy-horror/ This week, everything old is new again, thanks to the magic of home video - in particular, the Blu-ray format. THE MUMMY and THE MUMMY RETURNS were released in two-disc DVD editions only two weeks ago; now they are back again on Blu-ray disc, along with the spin-off title THE ... http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/07/22/laserblast-vampyr-urban-legend-brutal-massacre-more-mummies/ This movie is so absolutely godawful that it's almost impossible to know where to begin listing its faults. Perhaps the best place would be its story, which is just an empty rehash of what came before. As bad as I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER was, at least the ... http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/07/22/film-review-i-still-know-what-you-did-last-summer-1998/  By Anthony Montesano By the late 1980s, the slasher genre had run out of blood. It had its roots in Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO (1960) and really got going with the release of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN (1978) and FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980). But endless sequels and rip-offs (PROM NIGHT, APRIL FOOL'S DAY, ... http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/07/22/film-review-i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-1997/