The reliably odd Crispin Glover – who played the fitfully nerdy George McFly in Back to the Future and the hair-sniffing assassin in Charlie’s Angels – gets neutralized by the overwhelming oddness of Willard, a remake of a 1971 horror flick about a social misfit who befriends a colony of rats. By the time the

This low-budget horror flick claims to be based on a true story, but the movie never decides if it wants to go for the sort of documentary-like realism of The Blair Witch Project or the more mythic frights of one of the iconic Jason or Freddy slasher films. The movie follows three casual friends on

Reteaming Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood) on an adaptation of Washington Irving’s prankish ghost story may have sounded like a dream come true, but the result is more akin to a harsh, bloody nightmare. Burton does cast his usual atmospheric spell – this Sleepy Hollow is full of twisted trees

Thanks to the surprise success of the 1998 original, based on the Marvel comic book series about a half-human/half-vampire superhero (Wesley Snipes), this sequel boasts bigger sets, snazzier special effects and a “name” director in Mexico’s Guillermo del Toro (Mimic, The Devil’s Backbone). Unfortunately, it shares its predecessor’s relentless fascination with blood and guts. Unless

Wesley Snipes’ baritone growl hits new depths in this third entry in the vampire-hunting series. Forget sunlight – at this point Blade could almost smooth-talk his enemies into an eternal slumber, like a cross between Abraham Van Helsing and Barry White. By far the lightest entry in the series, Blade: Trinity tries to adopt a

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