Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains. REVIEW: “Return of the Living Dead” easily stands as one of the greatest zombie comedy films …
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Finding Quigley: An American Scream Queen
A high school music teacher sticks around after class to tickle the ivories and sing a few tunes he learned in his youth. His glory days are long gone but if he closes his eyes he relives just a little piece of them…in his head anyway. He was once just another guy that played in a band, but to his …
Read More »Sequels and Remakes: Return of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead After the success of Night of the Living Dead, the partnership between George Romero and John Russo soon ended, with Romero continuing to write and direct his own set of sequels. John Russo continued to write, but mostly novels instead of scripts, except for the few exceptions were he ended up writing a script from …
Read More »Top 10 Horror Films That Could Be Remade Effectively
Look, I’m not a fan of remakes. They tend to be rather pedestrian affairs with only the slightest amount of the originals’ power, and as such most are utter nonsense. Case in point would be remakes of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, The Amityville Horror, The Grudge, One Missed Call and any number of others in …
Read More »Sequels Better Than the Originals
In most genres of cinema, the sequel is almost inherently worse than the original. However, horror is not like most genres. Sequels can sometimes match the quality of the original or surpass it. The reason could be related to a higher budget, more attention from studios, less attention from studios, or just the result of taking scares and creativity to …
Read More »1985 – The Best Year For Horror
A few months ago, I hypothesized that 2016 was the best year for horror. And while 2017 is shaping up to be one for the record books, the key to finding the best year for horror is to look to the past. We have to go way back — to 1985. You read it here first, folks – 1985 is …
Read More »Top 10 Stripper Horror Films
Stripper based horror films have “not” been in abundance over the years. In fact just trying to come up with a top 10 list was an article project that took longer than expected. However as you’ll note in the first few choices, there have been some great and worthy moments within the genre that will always receive mention. Salma Hayek …
Read More »Award Winning Horror Studio Recreated Legendary Tarman from Return of the Living Dead
Award winning horror studio recreated legendary Tarman from Return of the Living Dead UK based horror photography studio HORRIFY ME has brought one of the most iconic zombies of all time back from the dead: TARMAN, from Return of the Living Dead. Buckets of black toxic slime were put to very creative use in this extremely messy photoshoot. Model Lee …
Read More »Monster Mania Con 28 – August 15 – 17
They’ve have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and they’re all out of bubblegum. Monster Mania Con 28 returns to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey this August 15 -17 and this summer’s convention could be the biggest and best yet. “THEY LIVE” Reunion features Rowdy Roddy Piper along with Keith David and Meg Foster. Wow! …
Read More »Film Review: More Brains! A Return To The Living Dead (2011)
SYNOPSIS: A documentary detailing the making of the 1985 classic “Return Of The Living Dead” as told by those who worked on the film. REVIEW: I remember the day I saw “Return Of The Living Dead” like it was yesterday. Partly because I had just had my heart broken by some filthy tramp who took up over a year of …
Read More »Doc Rotten’s Halls of Horror: Female Movie Monsters
The most famous of Universal Monsters are the Frankenstein Monster, Count Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Horror icons of classic thriller cinema are Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr., Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. Modern horror monsters are Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Jason Voorhees and Pinhead. It is easy …
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