The second New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival took place September 22 – 24 in Iselin, NJ, bringing in horror fans from all over to meet vendors offering cool items related to our favorite films and meeting and greeting those in front of and behind the cameras of the new genre offerings. I appreciated this convention as it’s so …

Countless (no pun intended of course) books have no doubt been written about the career of the late Sir Christopher Lee, the actor arguably best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula and his appearance in scores of science fiction, fantasy and horror films. I was introduced to Sir Christopher’s work when I was five and caught several scenes of …

SYNOPSIS: An LAPD blade runner discovers a long-buried secret that has repercussions far beyond anything that he can imagine. REVIEW: Harrison Ford was the first actor I was a huge fan of during my childhood who portrayed multiple characters I adored. I was eight and-a-half years-old when I saw his portrayal as Han Solo in Star Wars in 1977 and …

They say that time heals all wounds and in the annals of horror film history this is not an overstatement when discussing John Carpenter’s initially lambasted and subsequently highly-lauded 1982 film The Thing, based upon the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell writing as Don A. Stuart. Thanks in large part to cable television and home video, …

SYNOPSIS: An actress (Samantha Eggar) escapes from an asylum to attend her husband’s (John Vernon) casting session for starlets. REVIEW: Have you ever wanted sometime sooo badly you would do anything for it?  Well for me, I have wanted Curtains (1983) on DVD and Blu-ray for years. I own a 35mm print of this film, and I’ve seen it projected …

SYNOPSIS: The Shawshank Redemption in outer space. Just kidding. In the near future, two women find themselves framed for crimes they didn’t commit and are both sent to a planet for such hostiles, a place run by a brutal warden who does her best to break them.

tagsWhen a film is as uninspired and as amateurishly made as Lance Lindsay’s Star Crystal (1986) is and ends with the words “Filmed entirely in SPACE” following the end credits, you know that you’re going to wish that you had those 93 minutes of your life back. Unfortunately, science has not gotten us to the point where that is possible …

Bringing Filmmakers and Celebrities Together in an Awesome, Three-Day Event Held Twice a Year The New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival premiered in March in Edison, NJ. It will be held again in Central New Jersey and is set to be an even bigger event than the first. For starters, among the personalities scheduled to appear are a reunion …

May 23, 2017 is the 37th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s film version of Stephen King’s novel The Shining and it has come to our attention that Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights will follow up their tribute to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist with an attraction for Mr. Kubrick’s film that replicates the hedge maze.  The attraction is due …

There is an interesting article by Alison Nastasi over at Flavorwire.com about fifteen obscure horror film titles.  I always love reading these lists that other writers come up with because invariably there are some titles on them that I have not only not seen yet but have never even heard of before.  This list is no exception, and it’s unfortunate …

SYNOPSIS: The Devil and an Archangel are locked in a wager to see who will win a bet.

The Monsterpalooza convention in Pasadena, California this coming weekend will afford convention goers a rare opportunity to meet the last of the great horror film stars, the Queen of Horror herself, actress Barbara Steele.

Donnie Darko, the 2002 darling of the Sundance Film Festival, has undergone a 4K digital restoration and will be released in selected theaters for a theatrical run on March 31, 2017, and followed by a 2-disc Blu-ray release of both the theatrical cut and the slightly longer director’s cut.  From the press release: Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko Returns to Theaters …

Director Jeff Frumess on the set of Romeo’s Distress with Dave Street What was the first movie you remember seeing in a theater? Jeff Frumess: The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 1990’s Spaced Invaders.  ​I went a few times and can even remember turning my little plastic play table on its side to recreate the …

SYNOPSIS: James Ferrose is a young man who fantasizes about a woman named Jane Matthews and finds himself being bullied by those close to her.  REVIEW: Like The Catcher in the Rye, the coming-of-age story read by millions, the action in Romeo’s Distress, the new film from director Jeff Frumess, takes place over a period of three days. Unlike in …