Cast: Kirk Franklin, John Legend, Dr. Bobby Jones, J Moss, Patti LaBelle, Pastor Shirley Caesar
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Paramount
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Every now and then we receive something for review that no one at Literary Illusions is really interested in seeing. When this happens the DVD or product is usually given to the writer with [...]

Writers: Michael Baez, Jonisha Rios
Director: Michael Baez
Cast: Jatnna Toribio, Jose Feliciano, Luis Jimenez, Giselle Blondet, Reymond Wittman, Mariana Seoane, Alessandra Ramos
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Lionsgate
Release Date: November 13, 2007
I deliberately postponed my review of A Wonderful Christmas, which is also known by the name Feliz Navidad. I wanted to wait until it was closer until Christmas. [...]

One of my favorite horror movies growing up in the 80s (and one of the first ones I saw) was Poltergeist. There’s just something creepy about an angelic looking five year old getting sucked into another realm filled with purplish-pink ectoplasm and evil spirits, while her brother almost gets eaten by a tree and strangled [...]

While I had heard about the movie, The House without a Christmas Tree, I had never had the chance to see this movie, which I knew many considered to be a Christmas Classic. I was raised watching movies like A Christmas Story, the original Miracle on 34th Street, It’s a Wonderful Life, Christmas Vacation and [...]

The story for Amityville: Dollhouse had promise. It wasn’t that the story was bad. It’s that the story became ridiculous about halfway through the film. There were way too many holes in this story, the acting was sub par, and the plot went from something that could have been cool to “WTF” pretty darn quickly.
Release [...]

After watching all the movies, adding up all the totals for their star count, and examining the entire box set, I have to recommend the Twisted Terror Collection. I must also warn you that you will find some movies in here you won’t like, but the overall collection is decent enough to warrant the purchase [...]

This movie was not what I expected. While it stars Peter Cushing, one of Britain’s greatest horror actors, the movie was uninteresting, unentertaining and I couldn’t get into it at all. I have heard you have to understand British storytelling to “get” this movie, but I’m a fan of many other films that come from [...]

I have seen it written that The Hand was one of Oliver Stone’s best pieces of work. If only he’d stuck with the brilliant storytelling he told in The Hand, he might actually be a good director. Somehow, I have to disagree with that assessment. The Hand was the best movie in the Twisted Terror [...]

Who knew that when Manny Coto wrote Dr. Giggles, he’d one day be both writing and executive producing the hit Fox drama, 24. That is exactly what happened though his writing style has vastly improved since the days when he was writing about a deranged doctor who had high pitched giggle fits. On September 25, [...]

Before there was Pet Semetary there was Deadly Friend. In Pet Semetary dead animals and humans could be brought back to life by burying them in sacred Native American grounds. In Deadly Friend, all you need is a robotic chip, which is implanted into the human brain. Sounds similar, right? Well…maybe not, but the zombie-like [...]

In the early 80s, one of the uprising young actresses was Jennifer Jason Leigh. With movies roles in popular films like Fast Times at Ridgemont High everyone knew who Leigh was. Eyes of a Stranger, which was released in 1980, was Leigh’s official “big screen” debut. She picked a pretty good film to act in, [...]

Fear is a healthy emotion that needs to be exercised and used on a regular basis. A healthy way to invoke fear is through horror movies. As horror movies have come along, they’ve evolved. Through their evolution, they’ve taken the ideas of past horror movies and tried to improve upon them. Some horror movies have [...]