What a great time it is to be a horror fan when I can sit here and prepare myself to talk to you about the return of a classic horror franchise – made famous by the brilliant horror minds of George Romero, Stephen King, and Tom Savini. There is no question in any genre fans […]
A wanna-be playwright and his young bride accept an invitation to an exclusive dinner party at the palatial home of a wealthy recluse hoping he will agree to back the writer’s latest play. They don’t know the man…or any of the other guests that will be attending the party. They just know that the last […]
Horror short The Springfield Three, prolific writer/director Samuel Gonzalez Jr.’s latest effort, is inspired by the true-life missing person case involving friends Suzanne Streeter and Stacy McCall, and Streeter’s mother, Sherrill Levitt, who went missing from Levitt’s Springfield, Missouri home on June 7, 1992. It should be noted that this is a fanciful narrative short […]
Filmmaker Christopher G. Moore’s latest short film Backward Creep is his strongest outing yet, building on an admirable filmography that includes Gut Punched and Knob Goblins. Moore’s latest takes a more serious tone than those two fine darkly comic efforts, weaving a tale of terror that is making an award-winning run on the film festival […]
Writer/Director Dan Sellers and his Wreak Havoc Productions cast and crew deliver a stellar Stephen King adaptation with their latest short film, Uncle Otto’s Truck. The short story of the same name — part of King’s Dollar Baby Program — was published in the author’s Skeleton Crew collection, and Sellers has done the tale great […]
Charles Bronson and Leatherface get into a fight. What sounds like a cheap joke or a bad meme is really just Cry Havoc, a cheap, bad movie written, directed, edited and shot by Rene Perez (The Punished) that features a Charles Bronson impersonator named Robert Bronzi as the hero and a joke shop Leatherface wannabe […]
Found footage films. You either love them or you don’t. That may sound like a bit of an oversimplification, and there are some exceptions that rise above the genre, but watch enough found footage films (a new one seems to get released every couple of days) and you will eventually find yourself on one side […]
Don’t make any plan for the immediate future after watching Among Them. You will be too busy thinking about everything you saw — or thought you saw — happening in the movie to be able to handle anything else. You may even want to set aside an extra 90 minutes of your time to watch […]
Quibi – the new streaming service made just for your portable devices – has been out for a bit now and they have made sure that the horror genre has been well represented during their initial rollout. We talked a week or so back about 50 States Of Fright – which by the way are […]
When I first heard of the new streaming platform Quibi – I honestly had zero interest. My whole life I’ve worked my way up from watching TV on a 12-inch black and white screen when I was a boy to finally having a 60 inch HDR monstrosity in my viewing room so why in the […]
Maria (Ashley Bell of The Last Exorcism and Carnage Park, and who was absolutely outstanding in Psychopaths) just wants to have a relaxing vacation in an elegant Airbnb-style rental with her work-obsessed girlfriend Jules (Noreen DeWulf). What the couple winds up with instead is a terrifying game ruled over by their unseen, sadistic host in […]
Looking for her dog in the backyard of her new home, a young single mom named India (Lois Wilkinson) discovers an antique Witchboard half-hidden in the undergrowth. She takes it into her home and, a few days later while having a glass of wine with her friend, Becca (Gabriella Calderone) decides to see if the […]
Director Adrienne Lovette and screenwriter/actor John Rice team up again after their 2016 horror short Hidden Daylight (reviewed here) and craft another winner with The Dark Room, a supernatural chiller starring Rice as the host of what was supposed to be a fun psychic party. Naturally for a scare-fare short, things turn out differently. Five […]
The first half-hour or so of Getaway feels very familiar. There are three menacing hillbilly serial killers living out in the woods and three nubile young women enjoying a weekend in a nearby cabin. What happens next seems pretty obvious, but director Lane Toran, who co-wrote the script with Jaclyn Betham, still manages to crank […]
A group of high school seniors, played by actors in their late 20s and early 30s, are being stalked and slain by a lumbering killer wearing a hoodie and a medieval plague doctor mask in The Lurker, a ponderous and predictable slasher film from director Eric Liberacki (Spoiled Fruit). The plot centers around fledgling thespian […]