“The ICE… is gonna BREAK!” If someone told you they had a vision that the ice would break if you went skating, what would you do? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they checkout the ice in Stephen King’s The Dead Zone (1983) directed […]
This week, the Grue-Crew review a pair of films where the past catches up with the leads to terrify and haunt them. The first film this week, DISAPPEARANCE AT CLIFTON HILL from director Albert Shin, follows a young woman returning home only to discover “the truth can be deceiving.” The second film, GIRL ON THE […]
Any film that comes with that IFC Midnight banner immediately gets my attention – they’ve managed to send out some of my favorite films of the last few years – and they will try to work their magic once again with the release of Disappearance At Clifton Rock. A trailer and poster have made their […]
“The saliva is very contagious. It dribbles into open wounds and cuts, and causes immediate infection. So don’t let anybody bite you.” That sounds like universally good advice! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they try to figure out the nature of the body […]
 “Long Live The New Flesh!” Max Renn (James Woods) makes his declaration of rebellion against Videodrome, the very thing he’s become so attached to. But is he really rebelling against the system or merely another cog in the machine? It’s a question people often ask themselves every day with no easy answers. Luckily, those […]
Filmmaker David Cronenberg is synonymous with the body horror subgenre, and one of his earliest effort is Rabid (1977), a tale of the unintended consequences of experimental plastic surgery. A plastic surgery clinic performs emergency surgery on a motorcycle crash victim, but they accidentally give her something extra in the process. She awakens with a […]
“Be afraid! Be very afraid!” – one of horror’s most famous lines, imitated many times over, originated from tonight’s film, David Cronenberg’s classic body horror exercise in terror The Fly (1986). A very different film than the original 1956 Vincent Price classic, the terrifying fate of Seth Brundle is a much more horrific and grotesque […]
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Writer/Director Joe Begos began gathering notice with his first film, a short called Bad Moon Rising (2011). After that he began work on his first full length feature, 2013’s Almost Human, which was a hit on the festival circuit, and very popular on home video. He’s now promoting his latest film, The Mind’s Eye, which […]
It’s readily evident that writer/director Joe Begos has a sizable jones for David Cronenberg’s Scanners (1981) as his latest film, The Mind’s Eye can be construed as something close to a remake of it. But Begos does something really smart here, and he jettisons a lot of what slowed Cronenberg’s opus down to a crawl […]
One of the films that really intrigued me after hearing about it last year was called Bite. I’d read about its premise and while that didn’t really excite me all too much, the reports of people vomiting in disgust and passing out while watching it at last year’s Fantasia Film Festival immediately shot it to […]
Imagine [REC] peopled with the types of characters you might see in early Frank Henenlotter and John Waters movies, with low-budget attempts at early David Cronenberg-by-way-of-Troma body horror and goo effects, and a dash of David Lynch–homage-on-a-shoestring surrealism thrown in for good measure, and you might come close to guessing what it’s in store for […]