Homicidal mushrooms with teeth terrorizing a wooded retreat?? Yes please!! In a nutshell, that is the premise of director Dave Wascavage’s (Tartarus) cheap-o epic Fungicide! What film deserves the Visual Vengeance treatment more than this one? At least it’ll go well on pizza… Synopsis What happens when a crazed scientist …

The 1980’s culture of aerobics, neon leotards, and legwarmers is the setting for director Brett Kelly’s (Ghastlies) new horror/comedy, dropping on blu-ray from SRS Cinema. Synopsis When Penny’s aunt–a legendary aerobics instructor from the spandex-clad 80s–suddenly passes away, she is tasked with cleaning out her home. Between the leg warmers …

Like it or not, everybody, and their brother (sometimes literally), in the late 90’s-early aughts, were making direct-to-video horror films. Shooting and editing were quick, easy, and relatively cheap, and distribution was everywhere to feed rental stores hungry for product. Predictively, lots of ripe turds were shat out onto shelves, …

It’s truly hard to believe that horror filmmakers were running out of ideas in the mid 1980’s, but haunted elevators? On the surface, that’s what director Dick Maas’ 1983 film The Lift appears to be about. But, in a strange amalgamation of genres, it touches on some themes that were …

In the world of low budget horror and subversive cinema, there are many, many “WTF?” moments. One of these was when I heard of the title Orgy of the Dead 2, and looked up the original film. Imagine the WTF-ness of the moment when I learned that the OG Orgy …

My introduction to director Rolf Kanefsky was 1990’s brilliant There’s Nothing Out There, but my introduction (apart from a fleeting Tromatic glance)  to horror film goddess Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley) was Kanefsky’s equally brilliant The Hazing. Having only seen it on bootlegs of dubious quality and streaming, I jumped into …

Rockstar biographies run the gamut. Often they’re sordid tell-alls, or they’re fictionalized fluff pieces, glamorizing a destructive lifestyle and elevating very flawed people to deity status. With Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer, director Wes Orshoski (Lemmy), no stranger to metal biopics, leaves it to the viewer to decide, for the …

Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Whether you’re aware of it or not, this legendary figure has arguably had a larger influence on all things horror than anyone. Ever. I “discovered” Lovecraft, personally, after seeing a number of the films I’m about to jaw on about, which led to a lot of “so …

With a penchant for putting out all inclusive releases of truly subversive cinema, Unearthed Films’ new release of Alex Chandon’s (Inbred) violent love letter to the “anthology” horror of the 70’s, Cradle of Fear, is a two disc smorgasbord of blood-soaked madness! Synopsis A gruesome homage to the cult Amicus …

Wildeye Releasing’s Visual Vengeance series is really breathing new life into late 90s/early 00s shot-on-video stuff by doing deluxe collector’s edition type releases that are normally reserved for the more familiar genre films. Being from Northern Ohio, I’m pretty surprised I hadn’t heard of Cleveland based writer/director Les Sekely (Night …