“…a spoof that’s actually a bad example of what it’s satirizing.”

“…like watching an aged retiree rouse himself for one more round of golf.”

“…scarily clever and cleverly scary.”

“As a portrait of an American family under paranormal siege, this can proudly stand next to Poltergeist.

“…not quite a thriller, not quite a spoof.”

What was a light-hearted 1978 B movie about ravenous piranha has become a dreary, sadistic chore in the hands of hateful horror specialist Alexandre Aja (High Tension, 2006’s The Hills Have Eyes). This time around, an underwater earthquake has unleashed a horde of ancient, vicious piranha on an Arizona lake just as spring breakers have

“The mad scientists of Splice make Victor Frankenstein look like a reasonable man.

“…has at least one great image: a zombie woman on horseback endlessly galloping around the island like some Gothic, Bronte-inspired ghost.

“There hasn’t been this unnecessary of a back story since Ron Howard felt the need to dramatize the childhood of one Mr. Grinch.

A Nightmare on Elm Street has a powerful sense of surrealism – both visually and thematically – that more than makes up for the movie’s horror hokum. Written and directed by Wes Craven, the film takes a diabolically ingenious conceit – a killer (Robert Englund) who murders teens in their dreams, so that they’ll never