When the first season of Slasher (The Executioner) premiered on the Chiller channel back in 2016, I binged the entire series in one day. It was that good. It was brutal, with a fascinating storyline and remarkable acting. I was hooked. When Chiller folded and faded from existence, there was …
Read More »Interview With Filmmaker Brandon Slagle For ‘Breakout’
Filmmaker Brandon Slagle’s latest film, Breakout, is an action crime thriller with a little bit of heart. It’s also one of the last films to star the late Tom Sizemore and is the first one to be released since Tom’s death in early 2023. Described as “Die Hard in prison,” …
Read More »Burn It Down: Interview With Boy Harsher
One of my favorite bands to burst into the scene in the last ten years is the electronic duo Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller, professionally known as Boy Harsher. With songs in both Terrifier 2, and Halloween Ends, their horror short, The Runner, in prime real estate on the streaming …
Read More »Announcing Jozsef Gallai’s ‘A Stranger In The Woods’ Starring Bill Oberst, Jr. And Lynn Lowry
We are so excited to announce Jozsef Gallai’s newest project, a tense horror film called A Stranger In The Woods. We love the other films we’ve reviewed by the filmmaker, Project Skyquake (2022 – our review) and I Hear The Trees Whispering (2022 – our review), plus there’s been The Poltergeist …
Read More »Interview With Anthony DiBlasi And Jessica Sula For ‘Malum’
One of my favorite movies of the past 10 years is Anthony DiBlasi’s 2014 psychological horror film, Last Shift. Its scary, violent, and drenched in blood. It’s the movie I suggest when someone asks me for a scary movie. So when I heard that Anthony was making Malum, a reimagining …
Read More »Interview With Bron Theron, Writer And Director Of ‘Half Dead Fred’
Back in 2021 I interviewed actor Corin Nemec about an upcoming project he was about to start filming. That project was Bron Theron’s Half Dead Fred, and Bron and crew were heading to Flint, Michigan to shoot the paranormal film-noir comedy. Now in 2023, that project is finished and was …
Read More »Interview With Ryan Lacen, Writer And Director Of ‘All The World Is Sleeping’
When I received the PR email for the new film, All the World is Sleeping, it was marketed as a “truly unique filmmaking experience.” Bold Futures, a reproductive justice based non-profit, joined forces with filmmaker Ryan Lacen to deliver to us a film “pushing back against the stigma faced by …
Read More »Interview With Elle Marr, Author Of ‘The Family Bones’
Locked-room thriller. That’s a new phrase I learned during this interview, and I have to say that it is one of my favorite categories of books. Described as “locked-room mystery,” locked-room can mean “A crime has been committed in a room or other location that’s been sealed from the inside, …
Read More »Interview With Jolene Purdy, Star Of ‘Unseen’
Yoko Okumura’s directorial debut, Unseen, is so fucking good. I have not seen a film with such strong female leads in a long time. Midori Francis (Grey’s Anatomy) and Jolene Purdy (Donnie Darko) carry this film from start to finish and I am here for it. All of it. Even though …
Read More »Interview With Yoko Okumura, Director Of ‘Unseen’ (2023)
Yoko Okumura’s directorial debut, Unseen, is so fucking good. I have not seen a film with such strong female leads in a long time. Midori Francis (Grey’s Anatomy) and Jolene Purdy (Donnie Darko) carry this film from start to finish and I am here for it. All of it. Even …
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