“Hello… Hello… I’ve got a message for you… and you’re not going to like it… Pray for death!” Yup. He’s right. His message was not likable. Join your faithful Grue-Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they try to keep it real amidst the world of quantum mechanics, John […]
Tag: John Carpenter
Fantasia’s Huge Third Wave Announcement Includes Lifetime Achievement Award for John Carpenter and More Amazing Films
Fantasia Film Festival’s first and second wave announcements about its 24th edition were already nothing short of incredible, and today the Montreal-based fest will cause even more jaws to drop as it has announced a colossal new assortment of feature films, along with details on scheduled panels, talks, tributes, and special events. Following is the […]
Escape from New York (1981) – Episode 157 – Decades of Horror 1980s
“I swear to God, Snake, I thought you were dead.” Didn’t everybody? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they once again travel to the world according to John Carpenter, this time partnering up with Snake Plissken as he tries to Escape from New York […]
The Thing (1982) – Episode 147 – Decades of Horror 1980s
“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, […]
Scream Factory Is Getting Onboard ‘The Pork Chop Express’ And Bringing Us An Amazing Collector’s Edition Of ‘Big Trouble In Little China’
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 […]
Review of Crawl on Horror News Radio 333
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. […]
Scream Factory Prepping Collector’s Editon Blu-ray of John Carpenter’s ‘Vampires’
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 […]
‘Halloween’ Is Heading To Blu-ray – Here’s All The Info Plus – A Deleted Scene
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 […]
Check Out The Extras That Await You On The New Blu-ray Release Of John Carpenter’s ‘Starman’
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 […]
Film Review: Halloween 2018 – Dave’s Comments On The Return Of The Iconic Franchise
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 […]
[Podcast] Halloween (1978) — Episode 82 — Decades of Horror 1970s
“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 […]
Everything Old Is New Again In ‘The Heritage’ Trailer for ‘Halloween’
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 […]
New Interviews Chat Up The Upcoming New ‘Halloween’
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 […]
New Featurette Gives Us A More In depth Look At ‘HALLOWEEN’
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 […]
John Carpenter’s STARMAN Gets A Blu-ray Release Date And Brand New Cover Art
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 […]