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Film Review: Z.P.G. (1972)

SYNOPSIS: “In the not-too-distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation, making the decision to ban the birth of babies for thirty years. Brainwashing and robot substitutes are used to quell the yearning for children with the death penalty as the ultimate deterrent. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot …

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Film Review: Galaxy of Terror (1981)

SYNOPSIS: SciFi suspense thriller in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations. REVIEW: As we all know by now, Roger Corman helped to launch the career of pretty much everyone in Hollywood. I couldn’t tell you how many films he has produced or how many of them I have actually seen but …

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Book Review: Dark Highway – Author Dan Thomas

Dark Highway Sometimes life gets bad, then it gets even worse, then you die. Dark highway by Dan Thomas is a story about a man named Tom Turley whose life flows down a road littered with disappointment and grief. A salesman for a furnace company Tom can never seem to catch a break in life though all those motivational tapes …

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NYC Horror Film Festival Returns!!

Our friends at Bloody-Disgusting.com have shared some great news, especially for those of us who live in the NYC area. The New York City Horror Film Festival is returning this this November! And it will be celebrating it’s tenth anniversary after the untimely death of it’s founder & visionary, Michael Hein. I’ve written about the profound loss that the horror …

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Bad Moon Books and Hippocampus Press receive HWA 2011 Specialty Press Award

Bad Moon Books, of Garden Grove, California, and Hippocampus Press of New York, New York will both receive the Horror Writers Association’s Specialty Press Award for 2011. The award will be presented during the gala Bram Stoker Awards™ Banquet to be held this year in Salt Lake City on March 31. The annual Specialty Press Award recognizes a publisher outside …

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The Terror Experiment – Adrenalin Overload!

April 10th on Blu-ray™ and DVD – from Anchor Bay! Reaching into the heavens, the Federal Building is the ultimate symbol of government authority, power and security. But for some, it’s the perfect target to expose our nation’s vulnerability to attack – as well as expose potentially deadly secrets kept from its citizens. It’s only a matter of time… Anchor …

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Film Review: Night of the Comet (1984)

SYNOPSIS: A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive. REVIEW: I’m a child of the 80’s. I spent the majority of my teen years in that time period and my love for horror films was spurned by it as well. I remember seeing many of these films in …

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Film Review: Edge of the Axe (1988)

SYNOPSIS: People in a small town are being hacked to pieces with an axe by someone wearing a creepy white mask. Law enforcement in the area is basically clueless as to who is behind the murders so a young computer whiz named Gerald and his sort of girlfriend Lillian try to solve the mystery themselves. Will they find out the …

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Film Review: Blood Runs Cold (2011)

SYNOPSIS: Winona, a successful artist looking to get away from her stressful life. Her manager rents her a house in her home town where she runs in to an old boyfriend. They go back to the house, only to find out it is not as empty as they assumed. REVIEW: Written by: Sonny Laguna, David Liljeblad, Tommy Wiklund Directed by: …

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‘Profane Exhibit’ adds Richard Stanley story

Richard Stanley, director of Hardware, Dust Devil and one of the stories of Theatre Bizarre joins the Profane exhibit with an african lensed story called “Coltan” which is a unflinching look into darkest Africa where human life is traded for fortune and the most unspeakable atrocities are committed. The Segment will be scored by award winning composer Simon Boswell Deep …

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Grindhouse retro gem ‘El Monstro del Mar!’ announced

 Breaking Glass Pictures has announced the February 28 DVD release of the nautical bloodbath, retro-horror thriller “El Monstro del Mar!” (SRP $24.99). “El Monstro del Mar!” mixes sexy yet deadly beauties, the infamous Vernian monster, and a grindhouse feel that gets the blood pumping and brings a renewed fear of what lives in the sea. Let the bloodbath begin! Three …

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Film Review: The Scarlet Worm (2011)

SYNOPSIS: An aging killer trains a young hired gun in a plot to assassinate a meek brothel owner performing barbaric abortion acts on his prostitutes REVIEW: “The Scarlet Worm”, is fantastic great western that has enough off-beat elements to make it a stand alone kind of experience. Helming the brunt of the film is actor Aaron Stielstra who is called …

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Book Review: Attic Clowns – Author Jeremy C.Shipp

ATTIC CLOWNS When Peter Straub and Jack Ketchum recommend an author you sit up and take notice. Such is the case with Jeremy Shipp. I’ve been thinking how to communicate his unique brand of fiction, commonly labelled ‘bizarro’. And so I’ve decided to use a drug metaphor. Let’s pretend you’re on your way to the fun-fair and to spice things …

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Film Review: The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff (1973)

SYNOPSIS: At the 2009 Goya Awards Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars writer/director Jess Franco received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 50-year career that includes such immortal classics as VAMPYROS LESBOS, BLOODY MOON and his infamous DR. ORLOFF series. In this 73 Orlo shocker, William Berger (KEOMA, FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON) stars as the diabolical doctor who unleashes …

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Film Review: Morlocks (2011)

SYNOPSIS: An experimental time machine opens a window into the future and mutated monsters (the Morlocks) use it to come back to the present and go on a murderous rampage. REVIEW: Written by Adam J. Karp, Royal McGraw Directed by Matt Codd Starring: David Hewlett, Christina Cole, Robert Picardo Best Line Runner up: “Let me see if I got this …

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