SYNOPSIS: “Five friends go to a cabin in the woods for a vacation. They discover The Book of the Dead and a tape recorder belonging to a professor, who also owns the cabin. One of them plays back what is recorded on the tape– which just happens to be Candarian resurrection passages translated from the Necronomicon (Book of the Dead) …
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Film Review: Nosferatu (1922)
SYNOPSIS: “Count Orlok moves to Wisburg bringing the plague, which reveals his connection to the realtor Thomas Hutter, and the Count’s obsession with Hutter’s wife, Ellen – the only one with the power to end the evil.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: Back in the twenties, German director F.W. Murnau was so impressed with Bram Stoker‘s novel Dracula, he made Nosferatu: A …
Read More »Film Review: Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
SYNOPSIS: “The dead come back to life and eat the living in this low budget, black and white film. Several people barricade themselves inside a rural house in an attempt to survive the night. Outside are hordes of relentless, shambling zombies who can only be killed by a blow to the head.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: I am privileged, nay, honoured …
Read More »Fred Vogel and ToeTag Pictures: The Good, the Gory, and the Disturbing
ToeTag Pictures. Ever hear of it? They are the film company behind the August Underground trilogy, The Redsin Tower, Maskhead, and Murder Collection V.1. If you only watch mainstream horror releases then chances are you haven’t heard of them. Formed by Fred Vogel and Jerami Cruise on April 1, 2004 ToeTag Pictures and Vogel are, I believe, the most important …
Read More »Film Review: Tokyo Zombie (2005)
SYNOPSIS: A pair of bumbling wannabe jujitsu masters fight to survive a zombie infestation in Tokyo. REVIEW: Director: Sakichi Sato Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Show Aikawa, Kauzo Umezu, Erika Okuda, Shatoshi Hashimoto, Hina Matsuoka The Examination: Frequently funny zombie romp filled with zen, over-the-top slapstick and of course, nods to Romero. Zombies have never been as popular as they are these days and not …
Read More »Film Review: The Warlords (2007)
SYNOPSIS: After the entire army under his command is slaughtered, General Pang Qingyun (Jet Li) finds himself to be the only remaining survivor (thanks to the fact that he played dead). He wanders about until he is taken in by a woman who feeds him and nurses him back to health. He soon meets up with two other men and …
Read More »Playback – Seems Familiar
Variety reports that Johnny Pacar, Toby Hemingway, Brooke Smith, Alessandra Torresani, Jonathan Keltz, Ambyr Childers, Daryl Mitchell and Jennifer Missoni have all been cast in the new demon run amok flick Playback. Michael A. Nickles is directing from his own script, centered on high school students digging into their town’s infamous past and unwittingly unlocking a demon that preys upon …
Read More »The Last Exorcism and Chatroulette
Even if you have never been to the site you are aware of Chatroulette as it’s reputation precedes itself. It’s typically a site where horny young men try to get woman to act out sexually for them or where men trick people into looking at their genitalia. We know this. However in an absolutely brilliant marketing campaign for the Last …
Read More »Stake Land – A Road Movie with Teeth
Get ready for another vampire film only this time it takes place in a post apocalyptic world. Stake Land is another bleak future vision of America where a boy named Martin watches the country collapse around him due to economic and political disasters. In the aftermath of the collapse somehow vampires rise up creating an epidemic sweeping what’s left of …
Read More »New Children of the Corn film in development
New Children of the Corn film in development Joel Soisson is writing and directing a new COTC film for Dimension Films. This one is called Children of the Corn: The Dweller. What we know so far is this “ Tim and Allie are heading out of LA and into the very warm California desert to see Tim’s father. The car …
Read More »A Hellraiser without Doug Bradley?!?!
The Hellraiser franchise has seen it’s share of ups and downs. The first two were phenomenal and the third was a big disappointment to say the least. Let’s not even talk about the fourth one in this series. Through it all there has been one constant however. It’s that Doug Bradley has been Pinhead. He plays the character well (as …
Read More »Scream 4: screaming for more?
There seem to be some problems emerging with SCREAM 4/SCRE4M which are setting alarm bells ringing with fans around the world. With creator Kevin Williamson either on or off the project (depending what you read) and rewrites of the script having taken place, it’s easy to lose track of what’s actually happening. The film is now shooting., and there seems …
Read More »Horror Fandom: A Life in Red
Being a horror fan here and now is a strange thing. We are still the outsiders of genre fans to a certain extent. While most genre fans will have a few horror films in their top ten/twenty lists (yeah, it’s okay, we’ve all got them), the dedicated horror fan will have hundreds of top titles, depending on any number of …
Read More »Dark Tide: Halle Berry and some sharp ass teeth are involved…
Halle Berry, Ralph Brown, Adi Shankar, Luke Stein, Mark Elderkin, Thoko Ntshinga, and Sizwe Msutu have all been cast for roles in Oliver Martinez’s Dark Tide. The film has Ms. Berry playing Kate Mathieson, who is a shark naturalist and documentarian. She has been very reluctant to re-enter the water since the very tragic death of her mentor. Kate used …
Read More »Book Review: The Passage – Author Justin Cronin
Written by Justin Cronin Published by: Ballantine Books Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 784 pages Price: $27.00 The most anticipated novel of this summer — and possibly all of 2010 — is Justin Cronin’s THE PASSAGE. Following the current trend of ‘vampire fiction’ he has penned an epic novel in the tradition of Stephen King’s THE STAND and …
Read More »Magazine Review: Creepy Images Magazine – Issue 4
Published by Kessler & Benzel Gbr Publication Date: 2010 Format: Color – 64 pages Price: $9.50 Hey, is that tears of blood rolling down her face on the cover? Well I’m sure that isn’t due to the another issue of “Creepy Images” being released, as this extra loaded addition is a definite keeper. Sure, there is not alot of editorial …
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