Paperhouse (1989)
Aug 22, 2009Girl Builds a House in Dreams
One of the most sophisticated and intelligent of the 80s copies of A Nightmare on Elm Street with a rich central idea about a girl who can enter the world of her own drawings
Bernard Rose
Candyman (1992)
Dec 8, 2000Boogey Man/Clive Barker Adaptation
A Clive Barker adaptation capped by a magisterial performance from Tony Todd. This was greeted as a horror masterpiece when it came out and went on to spawn two sequels. Not too bad if it falls short of the classic status
Frankenstein (2015)
Apr 24, 2016Modernised Frankenstein
This is an intriguing low-budget film that sets out to offer a modernised retelling of Mary Shelley. If nothing else, it gives the oft-told story a very different spin than usual