Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A girl living alone in a post apocalyptic wasteland finds herself hunted down by marauders who want her to fight in their fighting pit for their entertainment. REVIEW: Since the days when Sigourney Weaver climbed into a giant robot exo-skeleton to fend off the mother of all Xenomorphs in Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien and Jaime Lee …
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Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An American military satellite crash lands in Eastern Serbia and a team of US and Serbian agents are dispatched to secure the remains of the satellite, but when they locate the crash site all is not as it seems. REVIEW: One of the treats of reviewing horror films is the chance to get different perspectives on …
Read More »Film Review: Boar (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before REVIEW: For years, going back to the world of vhs …
Read More »Film Review: Dolphin (short film) (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man returns home with a woman after a successful blind date. But little does he know, he’s in for a long night. REVIEW: Don’t ever tell Itai Guberman, CEO/Founder of MyIndie Productions (with partner Asaf Angel), that he cannot do something. It just fans the already burning creative fires to a white-hot inferno as he …
Read More »Interview: Chase Dudley
Chasing Your Dream While Visions of Tom Holland, Wes Craven and a Guy Named Hitchcock Do the Monster Mash in Your Head: An Interview with Aspiring Filmmaker and Star Chase Dudley Ever since I first heard Peter Cushing utter the immortal lines “Monsters? We’re British, you know!” from Horror Express back in 1976, I’d had the rather dramatic epiphany without …
Read More »Film Review: Wildling (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A blossoming teenager uncovers the dark secret behind her traumatic childhood. REVIEW: There are several defining characteristics that tell you when you are watching cinema of the bizarre. In some films it’s a pre-credit dream sequence, perhaps, followed by distorted visuals of the fish-eyed lens variety and shots that make little sense unless you are under …
Read More »Film Review: Vampire Clay (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A plasticine demon devours the denizens of a rural art school. REVIEW: How innocent the fun is in being a kid. Especially those times when you had Play-Doh in your hands and could create. For most kids, like me for example, the end results showed little promise of becoming the next great sculptor. It was a …
Read More »Film Review: Third Temple (short film) (2014)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In Israel, in the years following the events of the Social Protests of Summer 2011 and the events that followed, life has become more and more difficult for the average citizen. Government corruption and the ever-rising costs of living have forced people into a quiet protest, left with no choice but to generally accept the status …
Read More »Film Review: Down a Dark Hall (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: One of the draw points for me in watching a horror film of a type that involves a cult or coven (even a loose grouping of people) is having the antagonist have that face of gloom, doom and out of control righteousness to their cause. Uma Thurman has that countenance and more. What covers her look …
Read More »Interview: Thom Mathews
From Pitching Tostito’s to Dealing With a Might Perturbed Jason Vorhees and a Zombie Tussle, the Unique Ride to Horror Movie Fame of Thom Mathews I must make an honest admission before I begin this piece. I was late to warm to the slasher rage taking over the 80s. Sure, I was bowled over by Carpenter’s initial 1978 sojourn Halloween, …
Read More »Film Review: The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths. REVIEW: I must admit right off the bat to not being the biggest fan of stalk-and-slash gore fests as they are usually on the high level of predictability and carry an extreme nihilistic …
Read More »Film Review: Marrowbone (2017)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live. REVIEW: As a horror film fan for some 45 years and a reviewer for the last 10 or so, …
Read More »Film Review: SiREN (2016)
SYNOPSIS: A bachelor party becomes a savage fight for survival when the groomsmen unwittingly unleash a fabled predator upon the festivities. REVIEW: Remember the ages-old mythology direct from the Middle Ages about the Succubus and the Incubus, the female and male demons, respectively, who used powers of sexual allure to draw life force from their victims and enslaving their will …
Read More »Interview: Christopher Wesley Moore – Part 2
From Sondheim to Serial Killers, The Wild Rise of an Indie Auteur: An Interview with Actor, Writer, Director and All-Around Horror Fan Christopher Wesley Moore Cont’d from : Interview: Christopher Wesley Moore – Part 1 KN: Not every male actor in the industry can claim on their resume that they once portrayed a vegan lesbian who talks to trees and …
Read More »Interview: Christopher Wesley Moore – Part 1
From Sondheim to Serial Killers, The Wild Rise of an Indie Auteur: An Interview with Actor, Writer, Director and All-Around Horror Fan Christopher Wesley Moore It’s easy to discuss every aspect of horror and fantasy output from the major studios and to assume that the survivability of the genre lies with the big boys. In reality, what drives horror from …
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