Casey Chong ranks the films of Alexandre Aja… French director Alexandre Aja has explored different genres throughout his illustrious 25-year career from the post-apocalyptic romance Furia in 1999 to the single-location sci-fi thriller Oxygen in 2021, but his most celebrated works remain his horror films, beginning with the ultra-nihilistic High Tension a.k.a. Haute Tension and […]
4K Ultra HD Review – The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Hills Have Eyes, 1977. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Dee Wallace, Michael Berryman, John Steadman, Russ Grieve, Janus Blythe, Martin Speer. SYNOPSIS: Wes Craven’s seminal mutant cannibal shocker inexplicably gets the Arrow Video 4K UHD treatment. No, you are not going mad; you have seen a review of Arrow Video’s […]
October Horrors 2021 – The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes, 2006. Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Tom Bower, Ted Levine, Billy Drago, and Laura Ortiz. SYNOPSIS: After breaking down while driving through a barren stretch of desert, a family find themselves fighting for survival against a family of mutant cannibals. […]
October Horrors 2021 – The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Hills Have Eyes, 1977. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace, Russ Grieve, John Steadman, Michael Berryman and Virginia Vincent. SYNOPSIS: A family on a road trip take a detour into a barren stretch of the Nevada desert where they quickly become the prey of a violent family […]
Master of Horror: The Best Wes Craven Horror Movies
Marvelous Videos explores Wes Craven’s best horror movies… Alongside George A. Romero, David Cronenberg, and John Carpenter sits Wes Craven, and that is no small feat. Like the others, Craven was an auteur of the horror genre. During the 70s and 80s, at a time when advances in special effects were being exploited by hacks, […]
Horror Movie Remakes That Did Justice to the Originals
Marvelous Videos with a selection of great horror movie remakes… Remakes and reboots get a bad rep. When you have an established product that resonated with a lot of people, it can be hard to replicate that feeling. Most of the time, it seems studios try to compensate for the lack of charm with more […]
Blu-ray Review – The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Hills Have Eyes, 1977. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Susan Lanier, Dee Wallace, Michael Berryman, Robert Houston, Russ Grieve, John Steadman, Lance Gordon, Martin Speer, James Whitworth, Virginia Vincent, Janus Blythe and Cordy Clark. SYNOPSIS: An all-American family travelling across country fall foul of a clan of cannibals that live in the desert. Quite […]
