“Trust is a tough thing to come by these days.” To paraphrase Bo Diddley, “Who do you trust?” You don’t have to walk 47 miles of barbed wire or wear a cobra-snake for a necktie to know that the answer to the question is, “Nobody!” Join your faithful Grue Crew – Chad Hunt, Crystal Cleveland, […]
One of John Carpenter’s most unusual – and in this fans opinion – most entertaining films, Big Trouble In Little China has stood the test of time and earned cult status among fans around the world. Scream Factory has announced they are going to give the flick their royal treatment – giving us a Collector’s […]
This week on Horror News Radio: Blumhouse and Universal sign their INVISIBLE MAN…, Rob Zombie and the Firefly Family return in 3 FROM HELL…, … and the Grue-Crew review… CRAWL! This is HORROR NEWS RADIO, the official GRUESOME MAGAZINE podcast. Back with Doc Rotten once again are the scariest, goriest, bloodiest co-hosts on the ‘Net. […]
What I consider to be one of Carpenter’s better projects – Vampires is a great western – slayer mash up with a fantastic character in Jack Crow – a character I have often wished Carpenter might turn his sights on again at some point in his career. Vampires never seemed to get the love that […]
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving Holiday! Took a little break from the online word for a few days myself but – it’s time to bring you all up to speed with the horror headlines and there are few stories bigger than this. Halloween is heading to Blu-ray – and I’ve got all […]
In our second piece of Scream Factory related new this evening – the label today announced the line up of special features that will be rolling out with their Dec. 18th release of John Carpenter’s classic Starman. Released in 1984 – Jeff Bridges garnered an Academy Award nomination for his role and for some reason […]
Spoiler Alert! I don’t think I included anything that could ruin the film for anyone but out of an abundance of caution – if you don’t want to possibly read anything that could give any plot points away – go away till after you see it. Here – I’ll give you my short […]
“I met this… six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and… the blackest eyes – the Devil’s eyes.” There’s absolutely no doubt you know who says that and who he is talking about. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they prepare for 2018’s […]
Hard to believe that anyone reading this right now would need a refresher in the happenings of John Carpenter’s original horror-piece – Halloween but – just in case, the fine folks at Universal Pictures have but together something they have labeled their ‘Heritage Trailer‘ that recaps all the stuff that leads us to the […]
The PR machine is shifting into high gear is we come into the home stretch of pimping up the new chapter in the Halloween saga. I think we are all suffecintly stoked for what the haunt season holds for us but – those fine folks in the PR department want to make sure. Tonight […]
The good old PR machine is ratcheting into high gear as we creep ever nearer to the much anticipated release of David Gordon Green’s take on the Michael Myers mythos. In this world – anything that happened after John Carpenter’s original does not exsist which when you think about it – gives the filmmakers a […]
People seem to forget that John Carpenter’s STARMAN was nominated for an Academy Award back in 1984 – actor Jeff Bridges got a best actor nod for his take on alien turned human and let’s be honest – Karen Allen should have been nominated as well – she is amazing as the recently widowed Jenny […]
The Grue-Crew love horror film festivals and Popcorn Frights in Florida is one of the very best! Hot on the bloody heels of their 4th Annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival, the band of horror movie cravens announces their inaugural Wicked Weekend October Event featuring a celebration of films from the one-and-only horror icon director John […]
Going to be another huge year for John Carpenter fans – it would appear. A new chapter in the Halloween franchise hits this fall but before that – it’s time to visit some of the modern masters earlier and in some cases – overlooked works. Enter Scream Factory who have made their name […]
The big news from the Halloween remake camp up to this point had been the fact that we woud finally be getting our much anticipated first look at a full trailer come Friday – and we figured that would have to suffice for the next few days so imagine our surprise when USA Today hit […]