If you’re not familiar with the work of UK filmmaker Darren Ward, fret not, neither was I. However, with a new boxed set, Blu-ray release from Ward’s own Giallo Films and Treasured Films Ltd., the maestro of lo-fi brutality will finally get a wider audience, and his sanguinary soaked due! …

As a fan of low/no budget indie horror, I always look forward to seeing what these hometown auteurs come up with using their, often meager, means. When the studios start re-hashing literally everything, it’s usually in the indie folks that bring both the originality and the heat. I’m of the …

When I was a kid, I remembered seeing Tobe Hooper’s (Poltergeist) Salem’s Lot on TV. and it scaring the absolute shit outta me! Seriously, the first thought in my pre-adolescent brain was “they can’t do stuff this scary on TV., can they?!?”. Surprising, to well…probably nobody, Hooper’s take on the …

SOV director Bret McCormick (The Abomination) was churning out product for VHS rental at a pretty decent clip in the 1990’s. Some of his output is hit-or-miss, and he wore his influences on his sleeve, but for fans of the campy & cheap, but ambitious, this is the stuff! Wildeye’s …

George Romero’s seminal 1978 film, Dawn Of The Dead, is widely regarded as one of the most influential films in modern horror. Being such an iconic film interest in anything, and everything, about the fabled production is in high demand. Surviving stars of the film are regulars on the convention …

I’ll be completely honest, I LOVE Wild Eye Releasing’s Visual Vengeance series. Overlooked and forgotten (sometimes rightfully so) low/no-budget SOV features from filmmakers who either went on to greater things, or flashed out completely. They seem to make it their duty to preserve these gonzo, and legitimately entertaining, little gems …

At little over a decade before we were widely exposed to the “beauty is pain” concept by recent offerings like The Substance and The Beauty, Japanese filmmaker Mika Ninagawa (Sakuran) adapted a manga and created a beautiful film called Helter Skelter (no relation to Charles Manson). 88 Films, as part …

It seems like whenever “German splatter” is discussed you hear the name Olaf Ittenbach (Beyond the Limits). Admittedly, I’m only familiar with his work on Bloodrayne. However, with Unearthed Films’ new Blu ray presentation of Garden of Love (aka The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine; 2003), I was excited to take …

Forty years is a long time! And, as you can expect, for collectors of fright films on physical media, “anniversary” editions are a big deal! Questions abound: What’s new? Given the limitations of the source material (as much as we hate to admit it, many of our 80’s favorites were …

More standalone Blu-ray releases of The Houses of Doom set, this time it’s a fun, crazy, two-fer from Italian schlockmeister Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare City)! Originally slated for European television, these long lost films are finally seeing the light of day courtesy of Cauldron Films. The House of Lost Souls Synopsis …