Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Magnus Dens returns to his childhood home and the scene of his father’s death in the hopes of learning how he died. He encounters a mysterious and ethereal woman who appears to live in the ocean and bears a striking resemblance to his female childhood friend. Is she real, or a figment of his damaged mind? …
Read More »ALICE, SWEET ALICE Soundtrack Album Coming from Waxwork Records
It has taken forty-five years, but one of the best soundtrack scores ever composed for a thriller is finally being released. The fine folks at Waxwork Records are now taking preorders for the imminent release of Stephen Lawrence’s creepy score to Alfred Sole’s 1976 thriller Communion, known to horror fans alternatively as Alice, Sweet Alice and Holy Terror. From the …
Read More »Laurene Landon in HUNDRA Coming to Blu-ray
Hundra (1983) Actor and film authority extraordinaire Douglas Dunning (Have Voice Will Travel )has brokered a ten-year license deal with Dark Force Entertainment to produce a new and upcoming Blu-ray of the 1983 sword and sorcery fantasy adventure film Hundra, the Italian-American-Spanish vehicle co-written and directed by Matt Cimber and starring actress Laurene Landon and winner of the Saturn Award …
Read More »Actress Interview: Robin Sherwood
Robin Sherwood is well-known to horror film fans for her performance as Eileen in David Schmoeller’s 1979 psychological thriller Tourist Trap, and as Charles Bronson’s mute daughter in 1981’s Death Wish II who meets an untimely death on a metal fence(!). Having studied acting with Stella Adler, some of her fellow students include Bud Cort of Harold and Maude fame, …
Read More »Z DEAD END to Feature Douglas Dunning and George Lazenby
Actor, producer, stuntman and 70mm camera operator Douglas Dunning will be starring with George Lazenby (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1969) in Z Dead End, a new zombie film unlike any before it. The film is written and to be directed by Robert Resto (The Brain Hunter, 2013). Shooting is scheduled to begin in Connecticut in November. This is one …
Read More »Book Review: Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company
Howard Maxford is not a household name as far as authors are concerned, however in the realm of film books he has provided some truly informative and entertaining titles dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, and George Lucas. He is also responsible for The A – Z of Horror Films (1996) and The A – Z of Science Fiction and …
Read More »Terror in the Aisles (1984) Coming to Blu-ray in October 2020
When Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II (1981) was released on Blu-ray by Universal Home Video in 2011 for its 30th Anniversary, it included a welcome and unexpected extra – a presentation of Andrew J. Kuehn’s 1984 thrill ride Terror in the Aisles, a sort-of-documentary which contained the scary parts from well-known horror films. Released in movie theaters the same day as …
Read More »Film Review: Trilogy of Terror II (1996)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Veteran director Dan Curtis returns to one of his best-known works, 1975’s Trilogy of Terror, with a follow-up sequel bearing the requisite “II” in the title.
Read More »Film Review: Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A vindictive and seductive teacher, a spinster and her sexy sister, and a lonely woman unable to cut the umbilical cord from her mother all appear in three separate stories from one of America’s preeminent writers, Richard Matheson, one of the greatest writers of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.
Read More »Film Review: Stage Fright (1987)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS:An acting troupe trying their hardest to pull together and mount a controversial musical finds themselves outwitted when a serial killer escapes from a local mental hospital and inspires a change in the musical’s narrative to horrific effect.
Read More »Film Review: Alice Sweet Alice (1976) – Review 2
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Karen Spages is murdered on the day of her first Holy Communion and all eyes point to her older and jealous sister, Alice, who wants a Communion of her own but is ineligible since she was born out of wedlock. As the body count starts to mount, Alice becomes the prime suspect.
Read More »Film Review: Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A woman recently released from a sanitarium hopes to start a new life in a quiet town with her husband and their mutual friend, only to discover that the world she thought she knew does not exist. Is what is happening really happening? Or is it all in her mind? REVIEW: In the history of cinema, …
Read More »Film Review: Dark Star: HR Giger’s World (2015)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A documentary following the final days of one of the world’s greatest artists whose nightmarish visions fueled one of Hollywood’s best and most lucrative franchises and catapulted him into immortality. REVIEW: “The dark corners of the human mind are the deepest dark, I believe, of anything in the universe,” once said author, playwright, producer, and director …
Read More »Film Review: The Brood (1979) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: A woman who is embroiled in a nasty divorce from her estranged husband channels her inner rage into giving birth to ugly, asexual children who kill the objects of her anger while under the care of a psychiatrist. REVIEW: It’s finally here. David Cronenberg’s 1979 film, The Brood, which opened in the United States on Friday, September 7, 1979, …
Read More »Film Review: Breakdown (1997)
SYNOPSIS: A New England couple on their way out west to start new jobs and a new life find themselves caught up in an extraordinary game of deadly cat-and-mouse. REVIEW:
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