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MONSTER MOVIES (POCKET ESSENTIAL SERIES) (PAPERBACK) Written Author Emma Westwood Published Author Pocket Essentials Publication Date: 2008 Format: Black /White – 160pages Price: $9.95 Another engaging release from the pocket film books over at “Pocket Essentials”. Monster Movies by Emma Westwood is a short and sweet overview of a whole lotta monster based films. An obvious fan of the genre, …

SYNOPSIS: psychological horror/thriller depicting a backwoods family with a dark secret. REVIEW: From the creation of Director Greg Daniel, comes the backwoods  style horror film “Carl“. Best described as a little bit “Psycho meets the Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “Carl” is a new hillbilly slasher film, that is far removed from the excellence of its influences. The film is an independent …

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S., MINORU KAWASAKI S FOLLOW-UP TO CALAMARI WRESTLER, A CULT CLASSIC PSY-KOALA HORROR / COMEDY! Tamura is an average Japanese salaryman working in the offices of a pickle distribution company. He is well liked in the office, hard-working, polite, wears a suit and tie, and also happens to be …

FORBIDDEN SCIENCE: FROM ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES TO FREE ENERGY (PAPERBACK) by J. Douglas Kenyon Published by Bear & Company Publication Date: 2008 Format: Black /White – 336 pages Price: $21.99 Forbidden Science is a dangerous book. And by dangerous I mean that in a sense of awakening. Too many times we get caught up in the fantastic only to have it …

SYNOPSIS:  A group of your standard cliché college students are looking for a place to party for the weekend when they are suddenly offered a chance to party at April’s house. It doesn’t phase the group of coeds that none of them have ever really hung around with April, nor does the girls neogothic wardrobe. The kids don’t even notice …

HAMMER GLAMOUR Written by Marcus Hearn Published by Titan Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 160 pages (Hardcover) Price: $29.95 I think my review could easily be summed up into 1 word…Wow! This latest gem from Titan Books is no door stop, Hammer Glamour is a beautiful edition in hard cover, full color and vibrant quality pages that deserves …

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: Leaving the studio environs behind, a rock band gets more than they bargained for when they set up shop in a seemingly abandoned military academy to record a new album in this indie chiller helmed by Jeff Thomas. The group realizes something’s amiss when they find sketches picturing decomposing corpses and a sinister art gallery with …

TALES FROM THE CRYPT – COMIC #8 – 2008 Published by Papercutz Retail $3.95 each Back again to cover another issue of Tales from the Crypt. This time we take a look at new issue #8. The special thing about this particular one is the 2 cover alternates. The one I happen to be reviewing is the special “Palin” issue, …

I have the pleasure of finally reading and reviewing a volume …..a long time coming. When I say a long time, I mean I’ve been hearing about this arriving on shelves for seems like decades. I don’t actually remember the official date I caught wind of it, but it was definitely a different time, a different era and most of …

New York City has had a bad couple of weeks. Both Hurricane Sandy & Nor’easter Athena unleashed their wrath on the city & it’s five boroughs. But the late Michael J. Hein’s dream of NYC having it’s own horror film festival lives on despite mother nature’s best efforts to thwart it. The combined efforts of some very dedicated people have …

In today’s latest still to come out of the Machete Kills production, fans are wondering who this new version of Alex Vega is and where she’s been hiding. The cast of Machete Kills” sports a rather impressive lineup which include Alexa joining Mel Gibson, Sofia Vega, Charlie Sheen, Jessica Alba, Amber Heard, Vanessa Hudgens, Michelle Rodriguez, , Edward James Olmos, …

SYNOPSIS: In 2011, A Robo Legend Will Rise Again REVIEW: From out of the mind of director/ writer Noboru Iguchi arrives a new title taking a more traditional (and less visually violent) approach paying homage to some of the more earlier Asian release of our past. The poster image quickly drew to mind some of the older favorites such as …

SYNOPSIS: A Paranormal Spooftacular! REVIEW: I had just seen the trailer for what looked to be an amazingly unfunny film called “A Haunted House” starring the amazingly unfunny Wayans Bros last week. The film is to be a spoof on “Paranormal Activity” & it’s ilk and I realized that there hasn’t (To my knowledge) been any spoofs on the “PA” …

For those of you in the UK, the fine folks over at Arrow Video are releasing a painstakingly restored version of the Lucio Fulci classic, Zombie Flesh Eaters to Blu-ray and DVD on December 3rd. This film with many aliases, known here in America as Zombie, in its native Italy as Zombie 2 due to George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead …

Rosedale the Vampyre is the latest novella by Lev Raphael.  It’s a wonderfully told historical supernatural novella about a man’s journey into the unknown.  The story is told in a period voice, so you will easily find yourself immersed in the story.  Grief-stricken by his wife’s untimely death, a wealthy New York banker turns to sexual abandon in the bordellos …