Doc Rotten, Author at Gruesome Magazine

Doc Rotten is the founder of Gruesome Magazine. He is also a film critic for Gruesome Magazine and the podcast host & producer for Horror News Radio, Monster Movie Podcast, Decades of Horror: 1970s, The American Horror Story Fan Podcast and Hannibal Fan Podcast. He is also co-host of the Dracula podcast on TV TALK and is a contributing reviewer for HorrorNews.Net and Widescreen Warrior. Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.

Gruesome Trailers

[Trailer] Hardcore (2015)

Listen up, Grue-believers, you are in a movie – a gory, action-filled, over-the-top grue-fest. Did you know that? Ha! The film is called HARDCORE and it is gaining tons of […]

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Jeepers Creepers 3 set to begin production early 2016

According to Variety, American Zoetrope and director Victor Salva are finally set to bring the Jeepers Creepers franchise back to life with a third film to begin production in Vancouver […]

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[Film Review] “The Visit” (2015): M. Night Shyamalan Returns to Horror with a Wickedly Humorous Hit

THE VISIT is the latest effort from once-popular director M. Night Shyamalan. Sneaking into theaters with little fan-fare and low expectations – but an interesting marketing campaign – the film […]

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[Trailer] Krampus (2015)

From the mind of director Michael Dougherty and Legendary Films comes a special yule-tide holiday treat KRAMPUS. The festivities have never been this frightening. In a busy year for merry […]

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[Podcast] Bloodsucking Bastards – Area 52 – Episode 127 – Horror News Radio

Mixing Office Space with Fright Night, BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS (2015) provides laughs, scares and gore galore. Directed by Brian James O’Connell and the comedy troupe Dr. God, the film stars Fran […]

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[Trailer] Queen Crab (2015)

“She has awakened and she’s angry! ” With a title like QUEEN CRAB and a Sci-Fi schlocky feel, the latest offering from Wild Eye Releasing offers up some high camp […]

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[Podcast] Final Girl – Cub – Episode 126 – Horror News Radio

Abigail Breslin and Wes Bentley star in FINAL GIRL from director Tyler Shields as a pair of mysterious outlaws who focus their attention on a band of murderous maniacs preying […]

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[Podcast] The Wrath of the Lamb — Hannibal — Season 3 — Episode 13 — Hannibal Fan Podcast

” I believe that is what they call the mic drop. You dropped the mic, Will.” – Hannibal goads Will Graham as our troubled hero gleefully executes his plan to […]

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[Podcast] Sugar Hill (1974) — Episode 23 — Decades of Horror 1970s

“She’s sweet as sugar… with a voodoo army of the undead!” – the tag line for Sugar Hill (1974) sets up the premise pretty quickly as Marki Bey teams up […]