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Film Review: Refuge (2013)

SYNOPSIS: Refuge is a suspense-thriller about a family struggling to survive in the wake of a great catastrophic event. REVIEW: The post-apocalyptic worlds that are set up in different movies, television shows, and books are fascinating. They are able to include modern amenities while also creating a dependence upon items that do not require replenishment. Weapons tend to revert to …

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Film Review: Pig (1998)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting. REVIEW: It was the special bluray edition release by Cult Epics that finally gave …

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Trio of Classic Horror Films Screening in Jersey City This Weekend

This coming Friday will see big-screen showings of three of horror cinema’s most highly regarded works.  F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) will screen Friday evening at Loew’s Jersey City theatre in Jersey City, NJ on Friday, October 24 at 8:15 pm. On Saturday, October 25, James Whale’s Frankenstein will screen at 6:30 pm.  This will be followed at 8:15 pm with …

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Ox Baker Passes Away

Professional Wrestler, Ox Baker, passed away early Monday morning.  Ox Baker will forever be remembered as one of the great villains of the squared circle.  Ox Baker played Slag in the movie, “Escape from New York” and had a brutal fight with Kurt Russell’s character Snake Plissken. I had the pleasure of talking with Ox Baker last Tuesday evening about …

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Film Review: Cam2Cam (2014)

SYNOPSIS: An American tourist in Bangkok encounters a mysterious group of web performers harboring a terrible secret REVIEW: It’s hard to talk about Cam2Cam without feeling like you’re talking about a product of work that’s really two distinct short films, with a smattering of shared actors and have been stitched together by Director Joel Soisson (Piranha 3DD). And there’s good …

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Film Review: Pretty Dead (2013)

SYNOPSIS: After killing and cannibalizing several men and being found unfit for trial, Regina Stevens desperately tried to convince her psychiatric caregivers that she wasn’t mentally ill, but was in fact slowly becoming a real life zombie. REVIEW: If Shaun of the Dead was the world’s first Zom-Rom-Com, then allow me to introduce you to Pretty Dead, the world’s first …

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Film Review: Exists (2014)

SYNOPSIS: A group of friends who venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend find themselves stalked by Bigfoot. REVIEW: If you were ever wondering when the time might arrive that actually uses Big Foot as a main horror element AND succeeds in being a kick ass horror film, then that time has come. “Exists” is a 2014 …

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Film Review: Ozone! Attack of the Redneck Mutants (1986)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: A hole in the Ozone layer turns some rednecks into flesh-eating mutants.  REVIEW: If you really think about it (and I know you want to), it’s kind of surprising that with the recent cash-in on everything zombie, we haven’t seen much from the mutant/mutation sub-genre. Really, they’re the same type of movie, a horde of transformed …

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Film Review: See No Evil 2 (2014)

SYNOPSIS: A group of friends pays a late-night visit to the city morgue to surprise Amy (Harris) on her birthday. But the surprise is on them when the one-eyed corpse of brutal psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) unexpectedly rises from a cold sub-basement slab. Their wild party quickly turns into a terrifying slay-fest as the sadistic mass-murderer resumes his savage rampage …

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Film Review: Kettensagen Zombies Redux (Chainsaw Zombies) (2010)

Rate this Film REVIEW: Okay, so apparently, back in 1999, Andreas Pape (a regular in Timo Rose films) and Oliver Kellisch (an actor almost exclusively in Timo Rose films) got together and made a short (28 minutes long) German splatter movie about a zombie with a chainsaw called Kettensagen Zombies (or Chainsaw Zombies). For whatever reason, in 2010 the same …

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Book Review: The Art of Greg Spalenka – Author Greg Spalenka

The cover says it all. A mixture of beauty, technique, spiritually, experimentation and style. Greg Spalenka has been churning out paintings and illustrative work for decades. A collection captured under one volume is a blessing to artists and enthusiasts of all things interesting. This recent release is titled “The Art of Greg Spalenka” now coming under the wing of Titan …

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