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.

Review of Vick Campbell’s Spanish Horror, ‘Derangement’ (2016)

Spanish filmmaker Vick Campbell has clearly been inspired by some of the great directors before him, such as Jess Franco, Paul Naschy and Armando Ozssario. It’s clear to see these styles in much of Campbell’s work on 2016’s Derangement (AKA Transtorno Mental). In the film, we get a plethora of these filmmaking …

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Behind The Bong… An Interview With ‘4/20 Massacre’ Director Dylan Reynolds

You can see by our review that we loved the movie 4/20 Massacre (2018), filmmaker Dylan Reynold’s debut horror flick. Although he has a bunch of credits working in the film industry, his directing projects are few, although we honestly admit that his talent in directing makes up for his …

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Controversial Short ‘Blutgeil’ (1993) Is A Gory Mess, But In A Good Way

From Switzerland comes Blutgeil, a crazed 24 minute horror short from 1993. Also known as Zurich Cop Eaters, this bizarre film landed director Lö Lee and his fellow filmmakers in some hot water when it released. There is actually a documentary, which you can watch below, about the ridiculous and …

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Islandrocks’ New Album Rocks The Eurocrime/Giallo and Sci-Fi Retro Theme!

The amazing, one-man music project, Islandrocks, is back with some new and genuine material to sooth more movie genre fans. Hailing from Sweden, Islandrocks founder Thomas Nyholm has returned to deliver a 13 track album with some expertly executed and original eurocrime/giallo themes in the vein of the classical style used in …

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‘4/20 Massacre’ (2018) Film Review

From director Dylan Reynolds comes 4/20 Massacre, a slasher romp about a few unlucky gals and their camping trip in the woods. Before watching this, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Could it be a campy, tongue-in-cheek gore fest, a straitlaced and serious no-nonsense slasher or a retro throwback to …

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BUFF 2018: ‘Let The Corpses Tan’ (2017) Capsule Review

Wonderfully offbeat and original, visually sublime and savage in style and delivery, Let The Corpses Tan is a refreshing and creative take on the crime/thriller fueled by an enigmatic and powerful presence of storytelling. The screen lights up with an engrossing display of vivid colors,  suspenseful ultra-violent bravura and classic …

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White Goods (2018) Film Review

U.K. indie filmmaking madman Bazz Hancher delivers his latest tale of dark depravity and sick twisted humor in White Goods, making a departure from his previous efforts, Films From A Broken Mind and Blast From The Past, which were both anthologies. Blast From The Past was a collection of Bazz’s earliest …

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Blaze Of Gory (2017) Film Review

So the big kicker with Blaze of Gory, a crazed anthology from the U.K., is that that the majority of the material in all 9 segments were lifted from stories from a 16-year-old girl named Blaize-Alix Szanto, who started the stories when she was 12. U.K. director/screenwriter David VG Davies …

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‘The Rise And Fall Of An American Scumbag’ (2017) Film Review

Colorado indie filmmaker Dakota Bailey returns with his fourth feature, The Rise And Fall Of An American Scumbag. Expanding further on his his last film, American Scumbags, Bailey brings back most of the same cast to go another round of down and dirty dealing, double crosses and abject behavior. Although American Scumbags was …

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‘P.O.E. 2: Project Of Evil’ (2012) Film Review

P.O.E. 2: Project of Evil is the second entry in the P.O.E. anthology series, and the film delivers seven tales from eight directors, a very ambitious undertaking exploring the literary works of Edgar Allan Poe. Once again, Italian director/producer Domiziano Cristopharo was very involved. The P.O.E. films continue to impress …

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