The Film:
At its core, the documentary A Good Day to Die is the sort of film best suited for an audience that will most likely never see it. This particular audience is the one made up of people who with little to no knowledge of Dennis Banks or the American Indian Movement (AIM), the central points of focus in David Mueller and Lynn Salt's documentary, and is ultimately the audience that most needs to see this film the most. Instead, I suspect, the people mostly likely to watch A Good Day to Die are those that know a bit about either Banks or AIM or both, and may find much of the film to be a refresher course in a part of American history that has long been ignored. It is the former group that the documentary best serves, yet the latter group that will probably be the one who sees it, coming away with the feeling of wanting to know more. But the fact of the matter is that if yo...Read the entire review

The Film:
Although it had been released as part of Sony's made-on-demand line of DVDs back in 2011, up until recently Thomasine & Bushrod had been unavailable. With the release of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, it seems like a natural to try to make money from whatever blaxploitation westerns there are to be found. To be certain, there aren't that many blaxploitation westerns in the first place, three of the best have already been released on home video, and two contain a certain word in the title that simply wouldn't be stood for in this day and age. So, when you look at it that way, there really was only one blaxploitation western that stood a chance of riding in within the cloud of dust kicked up by Django Unchained. And here it is, released for the first time on DVDâ€"granted it is part of Sony's made-on-demand line of discsâ€"the legendary Thomasi...Read the entire review

The Film:
Let's begin with the simple belief that all movies are good, except for the bad parts. Some times these bad parts are trivial and inconsequential, and don't really get in the way of enjoying a movie. Some times, however, the bad parts are big and cumbersome, and nearly impossible to overlook because they are so...well...big...and cumbersome. It's when the bad parts of a movie become so unwieldy that everything that is good about a movie--and remember, all movies are good, except for the bad parts--actually comes close to being bad. And that's kind of what's going on with Luv, an otherwise good movie that suffers from a single bad part. Unfortunately, that bad part is the story itself.

Rapper-turned-actor Common stars as Vincent, an ex-convict recently released from prison, looking to go on the straight and narrow by opening his own restaurant/nightclub. Vincent is idolized...Read the entire review

The Show:
The animated series Jackie Chan Adventures debuted in September 2000, just as the Saturday morning cartoon format was on its last legs. Like the animated adventures of Muhammad Ali in the 1970s and Mr. T in the 1980s, Jackie Chan Adventures took a larger than life superstar, and turned him into an even more larger than life cartoon hero. The series cast the incredibly popular Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan as an adventuring archeologist, not unlike the character Chan played in the Armour of God movies--only filtered through the lens of American cartoons. Jackie (voiced by actor James Sie) goes on a series of adventures, aided by Uncle (Sab Shimono), and his pesky niece Jade (Stacie Chan). Most of his missions involve the mysterious Section 13, a shadowy government agency that protects the world from supernatural evil forces.

The first season of Jackie Chan...Read the entire review

The Film:
Somehow, and I'm not sure how, I managed to miss Basket Case 3: The Progeny. That in and of itself is bad enough. But that's not what is really bad. What is really bad is that I didn't even know there was a third film in director Frank Henenlotter's Basket Case series. I saw the first two films, and then this one slipped past me, unnoticed for more than twenty years. And that is just plain pathetic. Well, it may be more than two decades late, but at least I've finally seen the third go-round of the Bradley twins.

Picking up where Basket Case 2 left off, BC3 finds Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) desperate to be rejoined with his deformed, murderous conjoined twin brother Belial. In BC2, Belial hooked up with the equally deformed freak Eve, for what could possibly be the most ridiculous sex scene in any horror movie. Well, in the aftermath of...Read the entire review

The Film:
The seemingly unlikely mix of monster movies and comedy that seeks to bring laughs to the horror genre is not as uncommon or new as most people think. Go back and watch all of those early classic creature features from Universal, and you'll see that the occasional bit of comedy has been an integral element to the horror film for a long time. As a genre, the horror-comedy came into its own in the 1980s with a long list of films that includes Motel Hell, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, and, of course, arguably the greatest horror-comedy of all time, director Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead. These three films in particular exist not as horror films that have comedic elements, or comedies that delve into the monstrous, but rather very specific hybrids that maintain a fine-tuned balanced between the laughs and the frights. This very specific genre has evolved...Read the entire review

The Film:
I'm a sucker for zombie movies, and have been ever since I was a kid and saw Night of the Living Dead for the first time on television one Saturday afternoon back in 1982. In those days, if you were into zombies, you took what you could get, suffering through whatever Italian Dawn of the Dead rip-offs you could find, or merely waiting impatiently for the next George Romero movie to come along. From the mid 1980s up to the late 1990s there was never more than ten really great zombie movies. Then there came something of new renaissance of the living dead and the zombie-ish, ushered in by Resident Evil, 28 Days Later, and a ton of novice filmmakers trying to capture lightning in a bottle the way Romero did in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead. Now, with zombies everywhere--in films, comic, television, and video games--there are more options for tales...Read the entire review

The Film:
There was a time when Harry Belafonte was one of the biggest, most revered, and important entertainers in America, and the world. There was no realm of entertainment he had not conquered, and from there he moved into the realm of political activism. He worked side-by-side with Dr. Martin Luther King, and was crucial in recruiting other entertainers in his many political causes. Remember the USA for Africa movement in the 1980s that helped battle famine and resulted in the mega-hit song "We are the World"? Yeah, well, Belafonte was one of the key driving forces in that whole thing. He also was an active and vocal participant in the protest to end apartheid in South Africa. Basically, in addition of dominating the charts and winning awards, Harry Belafonte spent much of his adult life on the front lines in the battles for human rights globally.

Susanne Rostock's documentary Sing...Read the entire review

The Show:
Let me get this straight...the premise of this series is that there is a special task force of the U.S. Marshalls that uses a team of convicts--each with their own special skills--to catch escaped convicts? And one of the Marshalls is actually a convict himself? And the other Marshall has a bad heart, and could keel over at any minute? Wow. Does that sound as ridiculous to you as it does to me? Because I've got to be honest, this sounds like not just a stupid idea, but an incredibly stupid idea. And I suppose that is part of what makes the A&E series Breakout Kings so fun--it is stupid. But when mixed in the proper proportions, stupid and fun can result in something that is actually entertaining.

Premiering in 2011, Breakout Kings is built on the idea that "sometimes it takes a con to catch a con." Deputy U.S. Marshall Charlie Duchamp (Laz Alonzo) heads up an un...Read the entire review

The Film:
As of this moment, I've seen Ganja & Hess--or some facsimile of Ganja & Hess --at least six times. To be honest, it's difficult to place an exact number on how many times I've seen the movie, because there are several different versions, released under as many as four other titles. There is, however, only one version that represents the vision of writer-director Bill Gunn. That version was lovingly restored and released on DVD back in 1998, and has recently been reissued DVD and released for the first time on blu-ray. This disc represents the film Gunn made, and not the heavily butchered versions released by the distributor that bore little resemblance to what Gunn had in mind. Gunn's Ganja & Hess has been revered by critics and has garnered a cult following, while altered versions like Black Vampire and Blood Couple have lapsed into re...Read the entire review

The Film:
The daughter of a good friend recently discovered Jackie Chan, and has since fallen in love with the master of comedic kung fu and his death-defying stunt work. She's watched most of Jackie's movies, and we've had some great conversations about him and his work. And did I mention that she's only nine years old? That's right, she's nine, and she loves Jackie Chan. But at the same time, she has no idea who Bruce Lee, Gordon Liu, or Jet Li are, nor does she really care. I figure, at some point, if she wants to know more about kung fu movies, I can always show her the documentary, Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie. And if she doesn't ever want to know more about martial arts mayhem and wushu asskickery, the DVD can collect dust until I meet another kid who might possibly appreciate this documentary, because to be perfectly honest, I don't see how anyone other than a child ca...Read the entire review

The Film:
Some people get ridiculously bent out of shapes when American versions of foreign films get made. Sure, it seems silly that some people won't watch a movie because it has subtitles. I've always laughed at anyone who says, "I watch movies to watch movies, not read 'em." At the same time, I'm amused by those who exist on the opposite end of the spectrum, screaming of the purity of foreign films, and the blasphemous nature of Americanized remakes, produced solely--or at least seemingly solely--for the troglodyte audiences that hate to read subtitles. I play the neutral stance of Switzerland in this matter. I love Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and I also love John Sturges's The Magnificent Seven. I thought Fabian Bielinsky's Nine Queens was a great movie, while Gregory Jacobs's American remake Criminal was not nearly as good, but was still entertaining. Luc ...Read the entire review

The Film:
My appreciation for professional wrestling has waxed and waned over the years. There have been times when I sat in front of the television watching as many matches as I could find (and there was a time when you were lucky if you could find an hour or two of wrestling per week on television); and on the flip side there have been times where I could care less about what was going on. When I was a kid I watched the very first WrestleMania on pay-per-view, and over the years I've seen some of my favorite wrestlers perform live. The one wrestler I have never seen--much to my regret--is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, one of my favorite performers of all time. Don't get me wrong, I'll conceded that The Rock is not the greatest wrestler to ever step into the ring, but when it comes to working the crowd and raw charisma, I believe he's up there with the best of the best.

The Rock: The Evol...Read the entire review

The Film:
When I was a kid, more than anything, I wanted to be a superhero. This desire was fueled by syndicated reruns of Batman starring Adam West, and my inability to comprehend that what I saw on television wasn't necessarily real. But then I turned five, and reality set in, and I knew that not only was I not going to be a superhero, I probably wasn't going to be bionic either (which only left me the possibility of being a kung fu master). I know that many other people wanted to be superheroes as well--inspired by the same comic books and television shows and movies that sparked my imagination. And most people let the bitter pill of reality shatter their childhood dreams and squash their hopes of someday putting on a costume to right the wrongs perpetrated by evildoers on the innocent and weak. But then there are those who were not deterred by common sense, laws against vigilantism...Read the entire review

The Film:
When I first heard of the documentary Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, I was more than a little bit excited. I'm a sucker for docs about film, especially those that examine aspects of cinematic history that are seldom discussed. So for me, the subject of how Native American Indians are portrayed in film--something I have been obsessed with and written about at length--was exactly what I've been waiting for. And in some ways, Reel Injun is very much what I was looking for, while in other ways it falls short of some expectations.

In what amounts to something of a personal journey, filmmaker Neil Diamond (not to be confused with the singer of the same name) sets out to find deconstruct and understand the complicated history of American Indians in motion pictures. A Native American himself, Diamond sets out on a cross-country road trip in a "rez car"--w...Read the entire review

The Film:
The good news is that I can finally get rid of my VHS copy of the blaxploitation classic Gordon's War. After years of waiting, and even breaking down and buying a bootleg DVD version off of eBay with picture quality worse than my video tape, Gordon's War is finally getting a legitimate home video release. The not-so-good-news is that it is being released as part of a double feature with Off Limits, a movie I was less-than-impressed with the first time I watched it. But the good news to offset the not-so-good-news is that the price for both movies is low, and you can always skip Off Limits if you want to.

Directed by actor Ossie Davis, who helped usher in the new era of black action film in 1970 with Cotton Comes to Harlem, Gordon's War is a gritty tale of vigilante justice that should have been remembered as one of the better blaxploitati...Read the entire review

The Film:
Let me start this review with a disclaimer: I have not seen the first Ip Man movie. There are several reasons for me pointing this out from the get-go, not the least of which being that when I say, "Ip Man 2 is easily one of the best Donnie Yen movies I've ever seen," I won't be inundated with people asking me, "Better than the first Ip Man?" Honestly, I don't know if Ip Man 2 is better than Ip Man. And when I say that Ip Man 2 is one of the best Donnie Yen movies I've ever seen, I'm not saying that it is the absolute best--just one of the best. Yen has been in some awesome movies, including Iron Monkey, Wing Chun and Hero, and for my money, Ip Man 2 ranks right up there with those films.

The second reason I'm letting you all know that I haven't seen the first Ip Man is to let you know that it doesn't re...Read the entire review

The Film:
On paper, and even in the promotional trailers, the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino collaboration known as Grindhouse sounded like a great idea. But the final product, the double feature of Rodriguez's Planet Terror and Tarantino's Death Proof, left much to be desired. Infinitely more entertaining than either of the two feature films were the fake trailers that screened before each movie, with the trailer for Rodriguez's own non-existent Machete rising head and shoulders above everything else. And so it came as little surprise when it was announced that Machete would become a real film. But after the problem with turning an incredibly entering short that clocks in at less than three minutes into a feature is the other ninety-or-more minutes that will be needed to pad the whole thing out.

Having added more than one hundred minutes to a concept...Read the entire review

The Film:
No film production company on the planet is responsible for turning out more great kung fu movies than Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers Studios. Their list of classic titles includes such movies as The One-Armed Swordsman, King Boxer and Five Deadly Venoms. To this day, one of Shaw Brothers greatest films is The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (a.k.a. Master Killer, a.k.a. Shaolin Master Killer), starring Gordon Liu and directed by Chia-Liang Lau, better known to American fans of martial arts flicks as Lau Kar-leung. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin proved to be immensely popular, leading to the inevitable sequels, Return to the 36th Chamber, and Disciples of the 36th Chamber.

Gordon Liu, star of the first two 36th Chamber movies reprises his role from the original film, Shaolin monk San-Te. Liu is just a supporting character (unfortu...Read the entire review

The Film:
Back in the early days of home video, when studios were much slower to release new movies, and video tapes were usually rented at grocery stores, there was a glut of exploitation titles to choose from. These were all flicks that had come out in decades earlier, and many of them were released on video under alternate titles. This is especially true of select blaxploitation titles--movies like The Bus is Coming became Ghetto Revenge, while Force Four, Charcoal Black, Brother on the Run and Savage became Black Force, Black Rage, Black Force 2 and Black Valor, respectively. And then there was Death of a Snowman, one of the few blaxploitation films to boast of being an international production, which found a home on select video shelves under the titles Black Trash and Soul Patrol.

Produced in So...Read the entire review

The Show:
The first season of the FX series Sons of Anarchy started out strong, building up momentum until it reached its high point two or three episodes from the season finale. The second season picks up where the first left off; in terms of both story and emotional energy that propels the story. And in much the same way the first season built to an unrelenting fever pitch of violence and brutal emotions, so too does the second season.

Set in the fictional small Northern California town of Charming, Sons of Anarchy chronicles the lives and exploits of a motorcycle club that operates a volatile criminal empire within the otherwise sleepy little town. The leader of SAMCRO (Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original) is Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman), an aging warrior who inherited the leadership reigns after the death of founding member John Teller years earlier. Clay also i...Read the entire review

The Film:
When I stop and think about it, I never actually thought the day would come when there would be a movie called Kick-Ass that would be opened in wide release, with advertising campaigns across multiple media platforms flashing the words "kick" and "ass" for the entire world to see. And along those same lines, I never thought I would live to see a movie quite like Kick-Ass, a balls-out violent epic about a teenager who dresses up like a superhero to fight crime. Seriously, you need to keep in mind that when I was a kid, we were constantly inundated with those urban legends about other kids who broke their necks jumping off roofs so they could fly like Superman or setting themselves on fire like the Human Torch. Hell, rumor had it that the animated Fantastic Four series in the 1970s replaced the Human Torch with H.E.R.B.I.E. the Robot because of fear more impressio...Read the entire review

The Film:
With the exception of director Bob Clark's Murder by Decree, in which Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Christopher Plummer) hunts down Jack the Ripper, I haven't watched a Sherlock Holmes movie in well over thirty years. As a kid, I enjoyed watching television broadcasts of the Sherlock Holmes films from the 1930s and 40s that starred Basil Rathbone. But to be perfectly honest, I don't have much memory of any of those movies, even though the image of Rathbone as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective has been burned in my consciousness for decades. This odd combination of clear vision backed up by almost no real memory, made for an interesting contradiction of preconceived notions while watching the most recent incarnation of Sherlock Holmes.

Going in to director Guy Ricthie's Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the Victorian era London s...Read the entire review

The Film:
For many years I wanted to do a documentary that traced the history of rock-n-roll from a completely black perspective. While I love rock as much as the next person--and perhaps even more than the next person--there is a special place in my heart for black rockers, and I've often felt most of them have never gotten there just due. Sure, guys like Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix are often cited when listing the contributions of African-Americans to rock music, but there are many other names that have been forgotten or seldom known. And that's why I planned for many years to do a black rock documentary. Fortunately, filmmaker Raymond Gale had the same idea as me, and thanks to his film Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker, I can now scratch off one project on my "Things To Do" list.

The history of rock music has always favored white musicians like Buddy Holly, Bi...Read the entire review

The Film:
There appears to be no end in sight to zombie movies, especially the low budget variety produced by filmmakers looking to make names for themselves. After all, it was zombies that launched the career of George Romero, and the living dead have continued to be the monster of choice for countless directors for over forty years. Joining this list is New Zealand filmmaker Logan McMillan, who wears multiple hats in the ambitious-yet-flawed mix of horror and comedy, Last of the Living.

Set months after the zombie apocalypse, Last of the Living finds three slackers surviving the rise of the living dead by hiding out in abandoned homes and ransacking grocery stores. Morgan (Morgan Williams), a self-absorbed jackass, and Ash (Ashleigh Southam), a hopeless goofball, are childhood best friends. The third member of their party is Johnny (Robert Faith), a whacked out rock drummer ...Read the entire review

The Disc:
Some people are upset by the fact that Warner Brothers has thus far chosen to release Batman: The Brave and the Bold as a series of individual discs with four episodes per disc, as opposed to one big multi-disc collection with the entire season. I'm not going to weigh in on that topic, nor am I going to review Batman: The Brave and the Bold - Volume 2 as anything more than the four episode collection it is. And for what it is, this a great collection of episodes from what has turned out to be a surprisingly entertaining animated show.

I was a fan of the Batman: The Animated Series, watched a few episodes of Batman Beyond, and never got into The Batman. When I first heard about Batman: The Brave and the Bold, I cynically felt this latest round of animated adventures of the Caped Crusader was little more than an opportunity to sell more act...Read the entire review

The Collection:
When the series Homicide: Life on the Street first debuted in January 1993, I was watching. I watched most of the original nine episodes that made up the abbreviated first season, but when the show went on hiatus for nine months, only to return for an even more abbreviated second season consisting of four episodes, I was through with the show. By that time, I was hooked on NYPD Blue, and as a consequence, I never really got into Homicide, and figured I probably never would. Then along came the HBO series The Wire--arguably the best series in television history--and suddenly I was interested in Homicide.

For those of you that don't know the connection between The Wire and Homicide, both began with David Simon. A reporter for The Baltimore Sun, Simon was the series creator and producer for The Wire, and it was his ...Read the entire review

The Film:
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet starts out strong enough for what it is. That's to say that for a retro hack-'em-and-stack-'em horror flick that recalls countless similar movies from the 1980s, Blood Night demonstrates within its first few minutes more than a little potential, setting itself up to be fun film overflowing with tawdry sex and violence. And if that is what the film delivered during its 84-minute run, we'd all be more than content. Unfortunately, the film hits a little snag along the way, and things don't quite work out as planned.

Starting out much like the original Halloween, Blood Night sets up the legend of Mary Mattock, a twelve year-old girl who snaps one night and butchers her parents. Years later, she has grown into a shapely crazy chick that sits around in her mental institution room completely naked (and played by Samanth...Read the entire review

The Film:
Some films exist as little more than excuses to do things as simple as blow things up, show hot women in various stages of undress, or subject the audience to a mindless barrage of action sequences that defy the laws of nature and logic. Jason Statham has made a career out of films like this, and when done right, there's nothing wrong with these movies--at least not in the sense that these movies are never more than they've set out to be. And that is certainly the case with The Tournament, a film that exists--almost exclusively to blow things (and people) to smithereens, show some women naked, and careen out of control on a cinematic blazing trail of mindless violence.

Those of you familiar with hack-director Albert Pyun's underrated piece of exploitation trash Mean Guns, will no doubt recognize The Tournament as something of a more high-rent rip-off. The pre...Read the entire review

The Film:
It is crucial to understand that the 1974 version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is, in every way imaginable, a truly great film. Some might stop short of calling it a "classic," but 35 years later, the film holds up so well that it is most definitely a classic. Unfortunately, like so many other great films, the cinematically illiterate audience that makes up a vast amount of the movie-going public doesn't even know there was an original version of Pelham (and even fewer know about the second version). And because so few of the people who will watch this latest version know about the original or have seen it, they will never know how it stacks up to the 2009 version.

Based on John Godey's novel, the original version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, as well as the inferior 1998 television remake and this most recent version directed by Tony Scott, ...Read the entire review

The Film:
Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep remains one of the best films I have ever seen. A stark, meditative slice-of-life portrait of blacks living in Los Angeles, Burnett's film recalled the neo-realism of Italian cinema, and the cinema verite of France. What I did not know when I first saw Killer of Sheep, was that it also recalled the work of Kent Mackenzie's film, The Exiles, which had predated Burnett's seminal work by almost a decade, but had sadly lapsed into near-forgotten obscurity. Released now on DVD, The Exiles has been given a richly deserved new lease on life, bringing with it the opportunity to explore an era that has long since passed.

Set in the Los Angeles community of Bunker Hill and shot in the late 1950s, The Exiles offers an intimate portrait of Native Americans that have relocated to the big city from the reservation. Spanning a...Read the entire review

The Film:
For the record, I am one of those people that believe in Bigfoot. Like so many kids who grew up in the 1970s, I was weaned on the television series In Search of, various documentaries and docudramas like The Mysterious Monsters, Sasquatch and The Legend of Bigfoot, the ridiculous series Bigfoot and Wildboy, and of course the classic episodes of the Six Million Dollar Man where Steve Austin squares off against Bigfoot. I read books about Bigfoot and even dreamed of the day that I would be part of expedition that actually saw the legendary creature. And after all these years, through many hoaxes and even though the existence of Bigfoot has yet to be confirmed, I still believe in the creature. The problem--at least for me--is the other people who believe in Bigfoot, and tend to question my own convictions. Not that there's anything wrong with t...Read the entire review

The Film:
There was a massive surge in horror movies in the late 1970s and the early 80, starting largely with original versions of The Hills Have Eyes, Halloween and Friday the 13th, which set much of the tone for the direction the genre would take for decades to come. There came in the wake of success enjoyed by these movies a tidal wave of slasher films, many featuring psychopaths in masks, and many centered around some holiday themes. For fans of the horror genre, there was a never-ending parade of fright flicks to choose from, but unfortunately much of it was the same thing over and over again. By the time the 1980s were over, there had been a total of eight Friday the 13th sagas, which were only part of what had drained the life (and creativity) from the genre. And all of this is crucial in understanding why a little film called The Stepfather was warm...Read the entire review

The Film:
Not that long ago, I wrote a rather scathing review of a horror movie called Staunton Hill. In that review, I used language that might be considered objectionable by some people, and certainly was reflective of a somewhat unsophisticated way of expressing my disdain for the film. Looking back, I regret the words I used to describe Staunton Hill--but not for the reasons some of you might think. Staunton Hill is still a total piece of crap, make no mistake about that. The problem, however, is that Killing Ariel is, in its own unique way, an even bigger piece of crap, and therefore more deserving of the tirade that I laid down on Staunton Hill. But since I've already used up my profanity-laced tirade quota of the month, I'll have to find other ways to express my pure hatred for Killing Ariel.

This worthless nonsense starts in 1933, when young...Read the entire review

The Film:
If your last name is Romero, and you father's first name is George, and you decide to make a horror movie, you better make damn sure you're making something special. As the son of legendary filmmaker George Romero, you should know that a lot of eyes are going to be on you, expectations will be high, and that every dickhead critic with an opinion or an ax to grind is going to be watching what you do with more scrutiny than you can likely handle. And if you do know all of this, then you should seriously consider the ramifications of venturing into a genre in which your father is reigning king. But even more important than that, you should make sure that the movie you are making is not from a script that sucks ass.

Cameron Romero directs this slow-moving, cliché-ridden excuse for a horror movie that mines deep from the well of films about chainsaw massacres that take place in Texas...Read the entire review