Writer/director Larry Fessenden’s Depraved is a gory, thrilling modern adaptation of the Frankenstein mythos, replete with commentary on today’s society and many of its shortcomings. Like the majority of Fessenden’s directorial efforts, it’s a thinking person’s horror film, but one that pulls no punches in the visceral shocks department. Alex (Owen Campbell of Super Dark […]
Director Joe (Almost Human) Begos returns with an independent horror opus and love letter to all things David Cronenberg. The film is called The Mind’s Eye and the influence of Scanners, Firestarter and their ilk is readily apparent. The Grue-crew dive into their thoughts about the film and their appreciation for the practical special effects. […]
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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 […]
In the recent years, the horror anthology film is seeing a bit of a revival with films such as V/H/S, the ABCs of Death, Trick R Treat and A Christmas Horror Story to name just a few. The team behind the successful V/H/S series of films is now out to scare, fascinate and entertain fans […]
Narrowing down a list of my favorite fright flicks for this year was not an easy task, thanks to what I consider a bumper crop of scare fare. The year was buoyed by some solid creature features tailor-made for a monster kid like me as well as a few strong supernatural entities – er, I […]
After watching the Christmas-set thriller Body, you may just want to stay at home with your friends and loved ones during the holiday season rather than going out while under the influence of alcohol and drugs to seek mischief. Hopefully you would have made such a decision even without seeing this taut film, an effort […]