Movies with music written by Joseph Loduca
Spoilers: This review contains “non-specific” spoilers. Some readers may feel this reveals too much about the ending.For roughly two-thirds of its running length, Bad Samaritan shows potential as a nicely twisty thriller replete with Hitch...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-05-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Dean Devlin
Cast: Robert Sheehan, David Tennant, Kerry Condon, ...
I define a "boo!" moment as an instant in a movie when there is a loud sound, usually accompanied by a musical stinger and occasionally in concert with the fast pass of an unidentifiable object across a portion of the camera's field of view. The i...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-02-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Danny Pang & Oxide Pang
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, ...
In this country, French movies are mostly known for being artistic and airy (or, to put it less kindly, serious and stodgy). And, while many French directors would probably agree that this is their aim (being artistic and airy, not serious and sto...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-01-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Christophe Gans
Cast: Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Emilie Dequenne, ...
Long before Scream came along to simultaneously parody the horror genre while participating in it, there was Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy (the third entry into the series, Army of Darkness, was released in 1993). Equal parts suspense, camp, comed...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NC-17" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, ...
What do you get when you cross George Romero with The Three Stooges by way of the director of A Simple Plan and The Gift? Something offbeat, to be sure. Something grotesque, without a doubt. Something... groovy. Evil Dead II can be seen as ...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-03-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, ...
Ash (Bruce Campbell) is a housewares salesman at an S-Mart department store before a venture to the house from The Evil Dead and The Evil Dead II sends him through a time tunnel into the Middle Ages. Suddenly, as the "Promised One" of prophesy, he i...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-02-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidz, Marcus Gilbert