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…

When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren’t selling out stadiums, they’re using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats. Get ready to belt out with all your favorite tracks, because this…

Does The Rocky Horror Picture Show need any introduction? It’s a cultural artifact with a 50-year runway and unlimited lifespan — it creates new audiences for itself each screening, and it will most likely continue…

Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) has just spent 20 years in a mental institution after the axe murders of her husband and his lover, which was unfortunately witnessed by her young daughter Carol. She moves in…

Writer Ben Rolf (Oliver Reed), his wife Marian (Karen Black), Ben’s aunt Elizabeth (Bette Davis) and their 12-year-old son Davey (young Lee Montgomery from Ben) rent a fascinating, somewhat run-down mansion for the summer at…

Unfortunate real estate agent Renfield takes a miserable carriage ride through the Carpathian Mountains to castle Dracula, where he is to transfer the property of Carfax Abbey in London to the Count of the estate.…

Unfortunate real estate agent Renfield takes a miserable carriage ride through the Carpathian Mountains to castle Dracula, where he is to transfer the property of Carfax Abbey in London to the Count of the estate.…

In 1974, Mel Brooks got together a bunch of his funniest friends and made a send-up of a film genre that he loved as a kid but that they just weren’t making anymore: the stiff,…

Posing as a librarian, Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle of Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) to destroy its evil master — and stop me if you’ve heard this one, but it doesn’t go well. Harker…

Dashing legionnaire Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since…

In 1962, a janitor named Elisa (Sally Hawkins) who communicates through sign language works in a secret government facility in Baltimore. This facility houses a strange amphibious creature (Doug Jones) with a humanoid form —…

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400…

The Tingler is about a parasite, present apparently in all humans, which curls up around the spinal cord when the host experiences fear. The only way to make it relax (and prevent paralysis and death)…

Examined under a certain light, A Quiet Place seems like more gimmick than movie. It’s certainly an easy plot to explain: a family is pursued by monstrous creatures with hypersensitive hearing that attack anything that…

Join Tampa Theatre and Film Tampa Bay for a An Evening with Chandler Riggs. Best known for his eight-season portrayal of Carl Grimes on AMC’s The Walking Dead, Chandler Riggs is an award-winning actor and…

Produced by Diablo Cody, Forbidden Fruits is set in an alternate reality where brick-and-mortar retail still exists. Three glamorous and motivated women named after fruits work at a high-end clothing store in the mall, but…

A Nightmare on Franklin Street welcomes back Tampa’s own Joe Davison (Sorority of the Damned, Beauty is Skin Deep, Stranger Things Season 2 & 5, Up All Night with Rhonda Shear) for the world premiere…

Shot mostly on location in the Sherman Oaks Galleria in LA, Chopping Mall features a bunch of teens who hold a raucous, bawdy after-hours party in a furniture store until they start getting viciously murdered…

Great ideas are only obvious in hindsight. Of course somebody should have made a movie like Scream, we all say, seated comfortably in 2026 when the whole idea of a horror movie that’s about horror…

Heather Langenkamp played Nancy in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of films. Sorry, that’s not trivia; this is the beginning of the plot summary. The actress Heather Langenkamp plays the character Heather Langenkamp,…

Three gnarly, 17th-century witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) are unwittingly conjured up for a Halloween night in present-day Salem. It’s been said that there are good witches and bad witches and, while…

The script for the original 1978 Halloween was written in 10 days, which … yeah, actually seems like plenty of time, come to think of it. It’s a terse movie: silent killer menaces teens, travels…

So, first things first: forget the title. The only thing that Halloween III: Season of the Witch is less concerned with than witches is the Halloween series of films. It would literally be closer to…