Richard Taylor

Avid gore/horror/underground/brutal death metal/comic fiend. Got into the good stuff in the nineties by tape trading the likes of Violent Shit, Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Apocalypse, The Beyond, Guinea Pig series, Men Behind The Sun etc. Have written for a bunch of sites some now defunct and some still going such as Violent Maniacs Cage, ZFE Films With Attitude, Mortado's Pages Of Filth, Severed Cinema, Goregasmic Cinema, Extreme Horror Cinema and Twisted Minds.

‘Kindness Of Strangers’ (2019) Short Film Review

Director Lucky Cerruti’s Dead Vision Productions delivers the short Kindness Of Strangers. I was fortunate enough to have Cerruti contact me about reviewing his film. I had heard Kindness Of Strangers mentioned by people on Facebook, so I was definitely interested in checking it out. Kindness Of Strangers features an …

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Saying Goodbye To Special FX/Indie Filmmaker Ryan Nicholson (1971-2019)

Acclaimed Canadian special effects artist and indie filmmaker Ryan Nicholson has passed away on October 8, 2019 after his fight with cancer. Born in 1971, Nicholson grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He was an amazing self taught effects artist who studied under Oscar nominated artist Adrien Morot (Pet …

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Devourment’s ‘Obscene Majesty’ (2019) – Music Review

Essential slam/brutal death technicians, Devourment, have nothing to prove. Their repertoire of brutality is immense, satisfying and vast, from their early material, Molesting The Decapitated, to the whirlwind which is Butcher The Weak. The Dallas, TX outfit have come to make an even more infamous statement with their latest offering, …

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Juval Marlon’s ‘Sturmgewehr’ (2019) Short Film Review

Writer/Director Juval Marlon has unleashed his latest film atrocity, Sturmgewehr, upon mankind. The underground Swiss filmmaker, who runs Beheading Films, has been releasing more and more disturbing material, starting with short film Torture Fetish and Dead Baby Mutilation. Marlon then took a break from underground, snuff-style gore, making a film about local …

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Horror Meets WWII In ‘Overlord’ (2018) – Film Review

I’ve been excited to check out Julius Avery’s Overlord for awhile after hearing a lot of great things about it. I have a penchant for war movies and horror, so melding both of these genres seems like a smart thing to do. I’ve heard people comparing it to video games …

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‘The Sideling Hill’ (2019) Indie Feature Film Review

Extreme gore guru Harry Collins, also known as Nathan Hine, is the proprietor of the private Facebook group, Hardgore Core, a Facebook group I have had the pleasure of inhabiting since its conception. Harry has an insatiable passion for all things gore and has never faltered in his nonstop pursuit …

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Shellmont County Massacre (2017) Film Review

Indie director Gus Trapani might not be a name you are all familiar with, but after watching Shellmont County Massacre, I think you might want to check out some of his other work. Gus is a director that prides himself in guerrilla style filmmaking and who has a penchant for …

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‘Triptychon Of Fear’ (2018) Movie Review

  Grindhouse Films is this great underground film company out of Germany who has released a number of amazing low budget indie horror/gore films. Fuchsi Fuchsberger AKA El Gore, the man at the helm, has a vast family consisting of some heavy hitters in the underground German film scene, and …

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‘The Bliss’ (2018) Short Film Review

Underground cult filmmaker James Bell has been knocking out some cool, surreal low budget films to grace this toilet earth lately. Hailing from Michigan, Bell has an endless number of horror shorts under his belt, including Nutsack, Phantom Of The Demon, Manuer, Lucifer’s Cosmonauts, Tantrum and Dog Dick. Let’s not …

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