Tag Archives: Tom Atkins

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween, but they harbor a dark agenda. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover the plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran, with deadly consequences! Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Writer: Tommy Lee Wallace, John Carpenter (uncredited), Nigel Kneale (uncredited) Starring: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O’Herlihy, Ralph Strait, …

SYNOPSIS: A detective becomes obsessed with stopping a masked serial killer known as “Trick” who pops up every Halloween and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage. REVIEW: I’d heard a lot of buzz (both good and bad) about Trick before I saw it and I thought that it sounded like it was right up my alley. As most of …

Actor Tom Atkins is a legend. He has starred in everything from Escape from New York, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, My Bloody Valentine 3D, Night of the Creeps, The Fog, HBO’s OZ.  Tom took time to speak with Horrornews.net. He talks about Trick and more. Hi Tom, How are you?

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When two fraternity brothers thaw out a corpse from their school clinic, evil slugs from outer space that had been frozen inside the body race across campus, infecting lusty coeds and turning them into flesh-hungry zombies. Now it’s up to a chain-smoking former cop (Tom Atkins) to save the whole town from the alien menace. Fred …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: At 15 years old, Kyle Kuchta went to his first horror convention. Years later, he visits multiple cons to understand why these gatherings are so important to horror fans, vendors and celebrity guests. REVIEW: All documentaries have a purpose, whether it be exposing human rights atrocities, discussing gun laws or showing famous cyclists to be the …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: In New York City the police are hardly viewed as a “helpful source” even back in 1988. Imagine the fear that begins to swell around the city when a uniformed officer starts brutally murdering innocent people. Young officer Jack Forrest is soon framed for the crimes, but as he sits in jail the death toll keeps mounting …

SYNOPSIS: Details the making of Stephen King & George A. Romero’s 1982 horror anthology classic, from conception through to completion. REVIEW: The July 2016 North American blu-ray release of Just Desserts: The Making of ‘Creepshow’, filmmaker Michael Felsher’s feature-length chronicle of the creation of the classic 1982 anthology film, was, and is, cause for celebration for fans of director George …

SYNOPSIS: Details the making of Stephen King & George A. Romero’s 1982 horror anthology classic, from conception through to completion REVIEW: Fans of the movie “Creepshow” may or may not have seen this release when it originated in 2007 (which was previously only available overseas in repackaged formats). When I first received this, my thought was …why a dedicated release …

SYNOPSIS: “The year is 1997. New York City has been turned into a maximum security prison colony, when the American crime rate grows high. New York City is surrounded by a wall and the bridge is mined making sure no convict escapes from New York. Snake Plissken, a one-eyed former soldier turned bank robber arrives at New York after being …

SYNOPSIS: In this futuristic science fiction thriller, government security agent Jerry Hipple has been unsuccessfully tracking the city’s most infamous criminal The Red Harvest Killer. When two nomadic lovers, Katia and Gladys enter the city the death count rises and are being credited as Red Harvest killings. Obsessive compulsive Adrian, the actual Red Harvest Killer becomes furious that the sexy …

Halloween III: Season of the Witch recapped and reviewed on the Monster Movie Podcast by host Doc Rotten and special guest host Ormon Grimsby. The Monster Movie Podcast begins its year long look at horror films and monster movies from the 1980’s with one of the most controversial films of that decade, Halloween III Season of the Witch. This is …

SYNOPSIS: “One hundred years ago, on April 21st, the wealthy leper Blake bought the vessel Elizabeth Dane and moved with his friend from a leper colony to California to build a town for them to live with more comfort. However, while crossing a fog in Spivey Point, they were misguided by a campfire onshore, steering the course of the vessel …