Anxiety, Egos and a Big, Green Monster: An Interview With Author Julian David Stone as he Takes a Fictional Look at Carl Laemmle Jr.’s fight to bring Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the Silver Screen It was a nerve-frayed 6-year-old who stayed awake on Friday nights with his dad to watch the local creature features show and received an introduction into …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The lives of ten strangers intersect through a terrifying chain of events as a mutating fungus begins to spread through a small town wiping out everyone that comes into contact with it. REVIEW: The Spore seems ever like the cinematic equivalent of the old Murphy’s Law axiom “If it looks or sounds too good to be …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area. REVIEW: Been some time since a fair amount of intellectualism has been so at the center of a sci-fi chiller meant more to scare for box office dollars than provoke thought, contemplation and elevate the discussion …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities. REVIEW: In the annals of cinefantastique history, there is something of a linking narrative between the best of cinema that manifests into a solid platform on which to build that classic …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being relegated, the two fighting brothers signed up for a new game. But they didn’t know that they need to stay in an arena to fight zombies. REVIEW: As a reviewer I’ve never been of the complete feel that the balances that exist in moviemaking (dialogue to action, slow or deliberate versus fast or energetic …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a young author returns to her horror roots, terrible things begin to happen around her. REVIEW: Perhaps the most fascinating of horror film themes is the one that studies the human condition, in all of its positive and negative glory, in depth. If the power of the demons within each of us can be allowed …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young woman organizes a meet-up party at her mother’s house where things go awfully wrong and some of the guests disappear mysteriously. They keep on haunting her in unexpected circumstances. REVIEW: Abuse in a family relationship often is not even about the physical, yet can be as ugly, as life-altering of a scar left on …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An Army psychologist held captive by an unknown adversary must find her way out of an RV in the middle of nowhere to survive. REVIEW: Not since I viewed Pink Floyd’s The Wall for the first time in the late 80s (replete with brain sogged by alternative substances as it happened) have I had as much …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Richardson family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter’s pregnancy in Northern California. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult member, Aksel Brandr, pays them an unexpected visit. Aksel, on behalf of the cult’s leader Henrik Brandr, offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A married couple rents a beach side Airbnb only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. They soon discover to be in the grips of a mysterious cult and their ancient sea god. REVIEW: I’ve been an obsessed fan of Howard Phillips Lovecraft since being a boy of 16 and reading The Call of Cthulhu …

Like any good, aspiring filmmaker, David Black is never one to sit on his hands and wait for opportunity to do that knocking on the proverbial door thing. Or, as this is on the subject of horror films, the scratching claw sound against the steel of the dungeon door as it were. The Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has restricted many folks across …

One of the true pleasures of writing on film, whether it be in the horror genre or elsewhere,  is having fate chart your course, on frequent occasion, as a scribe such that it allows the occasional parallel course match, and even an intersection of connection, with many of the other artists in the medium whom you’ve interviewed before and offering …

Matthew Moy Goes From Running a Diner in 2 Broke Girls to Battling Airsickness and a Demonic Spirit in Exorcism at 60,000 Feet It is a once in a lifetime opportunity when, as an interviewer, your passions for multiple subjects come together as one. I’d thought, as a child, that nothing could achieve the level of obsession that I have …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young medical student attempts to cure her brother from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to help him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed. REVIEW: As someone who has battled mild forms of insomnia (much due to anxiety) …

The Coronavirus has either pushed back or postponed all planned events for the summer and early fall, and has taken a sledgehammer to submissions which is the lifeblood of film festivals. The Death’s Parade Film Festival is based in one of the hardest hit areas of California, so the organizers made the tough decision to postpone the festival until 2021. …