night of the living dead

Uncovering Curiosities: Joe Begos’ VFW

Over the last 10 or 15 years, much has been said and done about the Grindhouse aesthetic. Since Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez unleashed their double-bill feature of Death Proof and Planet Terror 2007, many directors have tried and (mostly) [...]

October 30, 2021

Horror Movies To Watch This Halloween

October is when the nights get darker and more mysterious. It’s the month where people like to delve deep into the horror genre and watch a variety of scary movies as Halloween approaches. Movies In Focus has put together a [...]

October 2, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Douglas Schulze’s MIMESIS: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Low-budget filmmaker Douglas Schulze’s 2011 horror film, Mimesis (meaning imitation) manages to do something new with the genre, whilst still riffing on a classic – this time it’s George A. Romero’s 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. Now, [...]

February 2, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Second Sight Films’ Remastered Release Of George A. Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD Is Remarkable

We live in a world where zombie films (and shows) are now ten-a-penny. However, the great George A. Romero is the grandfather of the horror sub-genre and zombie films don’t come more iconic that 1978’s Dawn Of The Dead. Sequelised, copied and [...]

November 10, 2020

25 Great Horror Movies To Watch This October

October is the month where people like to delve deep into the horror genre and watch a variety of scary movies in the lead-up to Halloween. Movies In Focus has put together a list of 25 great horror movies. Some of them are classics films and others [...]

October 4, 2020

Clip From Forthcoming Horror Movie Remix MIMESIS: NOSFERATU

Movies In Focus really enjoyed director Douglas Schulze’s Mimesis: Nosferatu when I caught it back in 2018. It’s a sequel to 2011’s Mimesis: Night Of The Living Dead, a low budget horror which took George Romero’s Night Of The [...]

September 12, 2020

John Carpenter’s ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

Released in 1976, Assault On Precinct 13 was John Carpenter’s second feature film after the low budget science fiction film Dark Star. The film is a homage to the great Howard Hawks and it’s a riff’s on the director’s 1959 [...]

June 29, 2020

The Best Movies To Watch During The Coronavirus Shutdown

The world is slowly shutting down due to COVID-19. The Coronavirus means a lot of people across the globe will be locking themselves in, self isolating and keeping away from the general population. These are unprecedented times. Cinemas across the [...]

March 16, 2020

Review: Joe Begos’ VFW Is A Bad-Ass, Bone-Crunching Beat E’m Up

February 15, 2020

Trailer: VFW Looks Like It’s Going To Kick Serious Ass

Hubba, hubba hubba. This first trailer for VFW ticks all the right boxes for Movies In Focus. Director Joe Begos appears to have delivered a wonderfully gnarly siege movie. That’s totally in the MIF wheelhouse. Pitched as The Wild Bunch [...]

December 11, 2019

Interview: Producer Dallas Sonnier Talks Pushing Boundaries & Making Great Movies Away From Hollywood

Dallas Sonnier is one of the bravest and most exciting film producers working today. Through his company Cinestate, Sonnier he has delivered a roster of punchy movies including the Kurt Russell western Bone Tomahawk, Vince Vaughn crime-thriler Brawl [...]

July 17, 2019

Grizzled Tough Guys Kick Mutant Butt In Fangoria’s V.F.W

Want to see a bunch of grizzled genre stars kick mutant butt? You do? That’s good, because genre stalwarts Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred Williamson, Martin Kove, David Patrick Kelly and George Wendt are starring in V.F.W, a new [...]

March 31, 2019

Bite Me: See A Classic Horror Remix In The MIMESIS: NOSFERATU Trailer

Movies In Focus has been writing about Doug Schulze‘s Mimesis: Nosferatu since Mimesis: Night Of The Living Dead was released way back in 2012. I’m there for any film which uses F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu as a stepping-off point and [...]

August 18, 2018

Horror Bites Back: First Poster For MIMESIS: NOSFERATU

Doug Schulze‘s Mimesis: Nosferatu has been shot and now the fright pic is slowly gearing-up for release. The horror sequel sees a group of students putting on a production of F.W. Murnau’s classic Nosferatu, but things don’t quite [...]

August 14, 2018

Nosferatu Lives In These First Images From MIMESIS EVOLUTION

Way back in 2012 Movies In Focus reviewed Mimesis, a horror that riffed on George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead (read the review). Now director Douglas Schulze is back with a sequel, titled Mimesis Evolution which uses F. W. Murnau’s [...]

March 3, 2018

Nosferatu Is Back! Behind The Scenes Images Of MIMESIS: SYMPHONY OF HORROR

Movies In Focus was a big fan of Douglas Schulze’s Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead when I saw it back in 2012 (God, was that really five years ago?). The film riffed on horror movies, particularly Night of the Living Dead and it cleverly used [...]

January 21, 2017

Movies In Focus’ Top 20 Horror Films

It’s very difficult to distill something into a list of ‘bests’. However, sometimes it’s good to take stock of something and evaluate the quality, trying to understand what it should or shouldn’t be. I’ve been writing about films for a [...]

October 30, 2016

Anchor Bay & Meyers Entertainment Score Distribution For MIMESIS: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Movies In Focus was a big fan of director Douglas Schulze’s Mimesis (now re-titled Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead) and the film received great buzz on the festival circuit (read my review). The horror film has now been picked up for [...]

December 7, 2012

Review: Douglas Schulze’s MIMESIS: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

Lately, mainstream horror has been in the doldrums; studios seemingly appear to only want to remake older films, hoping that name recognition will draw audiences. Recent years have seen films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing and The Wolfman [...]

February 28, 2012