The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles is presenting a double feature of Son of Frankenstein (1939) and House of Frankenstein (1944) this coming Sunday and Monday. Son of Frankenstein was directed by Rowland V. Lee and stars Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Béla Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson, and Donnie Dunagan. Projected on 35mm film. House of Frankenstein was directed …

The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles is presenting a double feature of This Island Earth (1955) and It Came From Outer Space (1953) this coming Sunday and Monday.  The latter film is often cited by filmmaker John Carpenter as an early influence. This Island Earth stars Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller and Russell Johnson and was …

Cinema Epoch is following in the footsteps of other studios by not only acquiring and releasing catalog titles to DVD; they are also producing their own films. The studio is currently planning the following projects beginning in 2014 and will feature actor/voice over artist Douglas Dunning and actress Laurene Landon (from Yellow Hair and Hundra): Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance …

Paramount Pictures’ highly lucrative Paranormal Activity series continues this Friday, January 3, 2014 with the release of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. This is the fifth installment of the film series and the first one to possess a title minus the requisite sequel number as part of it. The film maintains the style of the “found footage” look that has …

John Harrison has recorded some truly great music for George Romero’s films. My personal favorite is Creepshow (1982) and I hope that one day a full soundtrack release will finally come our way. In the meantime, his score to Mr. Romero’s 1985 film Day of the Dead zombie film has recently been released in the form of a new, 2-CD …

Can it really be twenty-nine years since I began reading Tim Lucas’ ruminations on cinema and its representation on home video? While we currently read reviews of DVDs and Blu-ray, we all pretty much take for granted how the reviewer rates both films and their presentation on these respective formats. Those of us like myself who have been following home …

Lee Holdrige’s magnificent score to Don Coscarelli’s entertaining 1982 outing The Bestmaster is at long last coming to CD in a two-disc set that will include much music that not only did not appear on the original twelve-track vinyl LP released in 1983 (or the identical Italian CD in 1995) but also was cut from the film. The CD set …

Here’s something unique for the Nightmare on Elm Street fan in your life: the Freddy Krueger Animated Chest of Souls Sweater: From the distributor:

Silent Night, Deadly Night, the infamous “killer Santa” horror film, is getting a re-release in movie theatres. Originally released twenty-nine years ago on November 9, 1984 (on the same day as A Nightmare on Elm Street) by TriStar Pictures, Inc., the film received much media attention, pretty much all of it negative, from picketing mothers condemning the film as anti-Christmas …

There are many reasons why I have wanted to live in Toronto. Rush stems from the city; Black Christmas (1974) was filmed in and around the surrounding areas; the city boasts its own film festival; Atom Egoyan has shot most of his best work there; and you cannot mention the city with talking about David Cronenberg, one of the cinema’s …

Over the weekend, Scream Factory made this announcement on their Facebook page: **SURPRISE SATURDAY TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT!!** Two Werewolf Cult Favorites – 2000’s GINGER SNAPS and 2002’s DOG SOLDIERS – will be coming to Scream Factory as Collector’s Editions in the Summer of 2014! Deal was just signed recently. More details to follow in the New Year.

SYNOPSIS: Down in the farm country of the US twins are born. One of them turns out to be good, while the other becomes rather evil. REVIEW: Robert Mulligan’s The Other (1972), based upon the 1971 novel of the same name by author Thomas Tryon who also penned the film’s screenplay, is a gem of a film. Once a staple …

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) was considered a critical disappointment when released in May 1980.  Apparently, time has healed all wounds.  According to reports in the New York Daily News and the Guardian, website Play.com surveyed 10,000 users to uncover what the ten most frightening films are in terms of physical response to fright.  They then hooked up the film …

Director Richard Ciupka’s Curtains, the 1983 Canadian thriller about six actresses vying for the part of “Audra” at the home of film director Jonathan Stryker, will screen on 35mm (courtesy of yours truly) on Friday, November 1st, 2013 at the Francesca Beale Theater near Lincoln Center at 7:00 pm.  Actress Lesleh Donaldson, who plays ice skater Christie Burns in the …

  Curious that Richard Schenkman’s Mischief Night (2013), a film about a pre-Halloween home invasion, is being released on DVD in December and not now. Click here for more information about the film.