As technology advances, allowing newer ways to tell stories, and pass information on, certain forms of entertainment fade away into the mists of the past and nostalgia.  I remember being a kid, and staying up later under my blankets with my radio, tuning into " The Inner Sanctum ", or finding old " Twilight Zone " episodes on VHS tape. Fortunately, while such shows may go out of style, and get relegated to the bargain bin of your local Wal-Mart, the advance of technology also provides new ways to preserve them in the hopes of introducing new audiences to them... One such example is the DVD box-set I found featuring episodes of the show, " One Step Beyond ."  It was a show that focused on presenting re-enactments of recorded paranormal events.  The episodes varied from recounting premonitions had prior to Lincoln's assassination, to pyrokinesis, to World War One soldiers deserting after seeing a heavenly vision, to a clown stalking a woman's kille...

Remember when most long-running TV series would eventually resort to a clip show? Basically it was a lazy excuse to give everyone a week off and tell a story using footage from past episodes. Well, the 1984 "documentary" Terror in the Aisles is essentially that, only for the horror genre. Someone said, "let's make a horror movie... but using scenes from other horror movies. It'll be cheap, easy, and we can still make a buck even if it bombs." And that's basically what happened. Donald Pleasance and Nancy Allen probably worked for a day each, and provided material upon which to wrap footage from a few dozen horror, science fiction and crime films around. Terror in the Aisles is presented as an exploration of the horror genre and its tropes, but it's really just an excuse to watch scenes from Halloween, The Exorcist, Ms. 45, Jaws, Psycho and countless other movies. If you're OK with that, you'll be OK with Terror in the Aisles. Truth ...

As most people who know me are aware, I have a fondness for the older horror movies, so it's no surprise that I would be willing to pop back to 1987 to find an interesting one to review. That interesting one just happens to be John Carpenter's " Prince of Darkness "... A small church in Los Angeles is hiding a secret... a secret that has been guarded for thousands of year. A secret that has existed since before time began. A secret that is finally waking up ...