A Nightmare on Franklin Street

A “Film Tampa Bay Presents” Screening Join Tampa Theatre and Film Tampa Bay for a special screening of the long-awaited new film from writer/director/actor Joe Davison (Stranger Things, 100 Tears). Trevor Harmony is an inept…

Largely forgotten in the tumult of sequels, rip-offs and parodies that followed in its wake is the fact that A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven’s original 1984 slasher classic, was not just a huge…

Paul Sheldon (James Caan) hates his job. His job is writing very popular, very profitable romance novels for an audience he doesn’t respect. So, having just finished a manuscript for the “serious” literary novel he…

In 1993, Dan Myrick and his University of Central Florida classmate Eduardo Sánchez conceived the legend of the Blair Witch and a story about three film students who go missing in the woods trying to…

“The role they were born to play” gets tossed around a lot these days, but offhand it’s hard to think of better casting than Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck (the “actor” playing Count Orlok in…

Ridley Scott, having directed The Duellists to tremendous critical acclaim but very little else, wanted to adapt the romantic medieval legend of Tristan and Iseult to film. But without the clout to make that happen,…

You know the story. Nuclear weapons testing irradiates some animals (in this case, ants), turns them big, starts them on a path of widespread destruction. It’s all on the poster. What’s interesting about Them! is…

There’s kind of a lot going on in Clue. Certainly more than you’d expect from a movie based, rather faithfully, on an old board game. It’s a tightly scripted screwball comedy pulling from influences like…

King Brothers Productions was famous for shooting movies cheaply and doing business aggressively. Having seen some success with the 1957 American theatrical release of the early color kaiju movie Rodan (before he even crossed over…