Recently my niece uncovered covert actions within her own household. Apparently my seven-year-old nephew had devised and executed a complex plan to watch The Walking Dead– a show that was deemed strictly off limits. Yet he’d managed to set an alarm for three in the morning, sneak out of bed, navigate Comcast’s Video On Demand feature and watch half an …

Within a few months of its premiere Alternative 3 began to take on a life of its own, generating rumors of government intrigue and secret plots to destroy the human race—except for really rich people. The most enduring myth is that all prints, promotional materials and even legal contracts relating to Alternative 3 were destroyed in a mysterious fire. To …

Within minutes of Alternative 3’s broadcast the switchboard at Anglia Television was flooded by terrified viewers convinced they’d seen a genuine documentary; a phenomena that hadn’t been seen since the War of the Worlds radio panic. But while Orson Welles had gone into hiding after his historic broadcast, the makers of Alternative 3 happily faced the public. As director Christopher …

Reader beware—we are about to tear away the veil of secrecy surrounding what one researcher has called, “The most dangerous film ever made!” revealing a conspiracy so controversial that even Breitbart News wouldn’t have dared publish it. It was all the brainchild of a dark cabal that involved a respected British newscaster, the screenwriter of Amityville 3D, electronic music pioneer …

SYNOPSIS: A group of actors are hired by a mysterious producer to rehearse a new show in an abandoned theatre. Upon arrival, they discover they’ll also be living in the derelict theater. But they aren’t alone- there’s a masked psychopath stalking the playhouse murdering them one by one.   REVIEW: When people think of British horror movies names like Hammer, …

SYNOPSIS: In the year 2050, America has been taken over by corporations, the countryside is a contaminated wasteland, and the population is unemployed, unmotivated and unwashed. To placate the masses, the ruling corporations present brutal and addictive virtual reality games, including the annual Death Race where champion drivers race each other while racking up bonus points for killing pedestrians. The …

SYNOPSIS: A vicious creature emerges from the canals of Venice California preying on dogs before graduating to human victims. A curious high school journalism teacher investigates the gruesome murders, discovering evidence that the beast is the product of nuclear radiation leaking from a nearby plant. He teams up with a local fisherman, and the intrepid duo set out to destroy …

SYNOPSIS: A young man brings four friends to a remote cabin for an idyllic weekend. But the trip is a ruse; secretly he’s come to track down a mysterious Bigfoot like creature he blames for his uncle’s disappearance. His suspicions were correct and within hours the group is fighting for their lives against the murderous beast. REVIEW: 1988 was a …

ALIEN (1979) – Genre buffs are probably aware that this classic shares its concept with Edward Cahn’s 1958 monster on a space ship funfest It! The Terror From Beyond Space. But that similarity could be chalked up to its core idea being a science fiction trope rather than plagiarism. But viewers weaned on late night television also noticed that Alien’s …

“The only ‘ism’ Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”- Dorothy Parker 2016 has ended with the usual chorus of journalists endlessly recapping the year’s major and minor events. But they overlooked one Hollywood story that’s subject should have been near and dear to any writer’s heart—plagiarism. It all started in 2012 when French filmmaker Luc Besson co-wrote and took sole story …

SYNOPSIS: An alcoholic journalist in Colombia stumbles on to a crashed UFO hidden deep in a remote cave. When he attempts to publish his discovery, he becomes the target of escaped Nazis, the CIA, the KGB and a murderous alien robot. REVIEW: The Italian film industry is renowned for its history of boom and bust periods. It spent the initial …

SYNOPSIS: An eccentric psychiatrist introduces a colleague to four particularly bizarre cases, each being the subject of a short story. There’s a boy and his lethal imaginary friend, an antique dealer who slips back and forth in time, a man who becomes romantically involved with a tree stump, and a Hawaiian author planning a very ghoulish luau. REVIEW: Since 1924’s …

SYNOPSIS: A young woman goes undercover at an elite girls’ boarding school to find her sister’s killer. But instead she uncovers a satanic conspiracy that drives innocent girls to commit suicide … or worse. Two future Charlie’s Angels face the devil himself in this 1973 made for television chiller. REVIEW: I’m sitting here having a flashback to 1973 when I …