The VHS cover for this movie used to scare the crap out of me whenever I would see it in the video store. It's a shame, then, that the film itself does not live up to the striking image it was sold on, and I feel pretty much the same way about The Company of Wolves as I did when I first saw it a decade ago. Strong atmosphere, a good score, and some cool special effects are unfortunately wasted…

As a narrative documentary "Room 237" fails miserably, but it was pretty interesting as a study of mentally unbalanced - and possibly psychotic - film buffs who read waaaaay too much into "The Shining". I mean, one guy is convinced there is proof in the film that Kubrick shot the footage of the landing on the moon. Need I say more? The only idea I found intriguing was the suggestion to play the movie forward and backward simultaneously – not…

Compared to that other 1981 movie about a killer hand (Oliver Stone's "The Hand"), "Demonoid: Messenger of Death" is the trashier of the two and, therefore, the most fun. Samantha Eggar and her husband steal an ancient, disembodied hand in a little hand-coffin from a long undiscovered area of the Mexican mine they own. The evil hand possesses Eggar's husband, who promptly blows up the mine with his workers in it, until his rampage ends in Las Vegas when he…