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.

Musician IslandRocks is Re-visioning the Retro Movie Theme!

I’ve been watching horror cinema faithfully since High School in the early nineties. When I discovered Italian cinema, my mind was blown, especially Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato and Dario Argento. In the early wave before a lot of these films even got good VHS treatment from companies like …

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‘Still/Born’ (2018) Film Review

Still/Born is a Canadian film directed by Brandon Christensen (It Stains The Sand Red 2016), and it tells the tale of man named Jack (Canadian Jesse Moss: Dear Mr. Gacy 2010) and his wife, Mary (Christie Burke: Black Fly, Falling Skies), who have just had a baby. The only soul-crushing part is that they were supposed to have …

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South Mill District (2018) Short Film Review

South Mill District takes place on earth after an alien war has pretty much destroyed humanity. The people that are left are remnants of Eon Corporation’s experiments, a company that created a disease called the Havoc Strain that turns humans into hosts for a deadly, mutated spider virus. Joe Meredith …

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DIS Mandragora (2017) Film Review

An exploration into the dark depths of nature both horticulturally, socially and spiritually, DIS is a high art journey of torture, restitution for sins past and a garden which feeds off the literal bodily fluids or seed of human sinners. Director Adrian Corona is digging deep into the spiritual abyss here …

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‘Day Of The Dead: Bloodline’ (2017) Film Review

I’m going to be honest… when I first saw the trailer for Day of the Dead: Bloodline, it looked promising. I know there have been a couple of attempts to resurrect George A. Romero’s 1985 classic. We had Day Of The Dead 2: Contagion and Day Of The Dead in …

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P.O.E. 4: The Black Cat (2017) Film Review

The P.O.E. films are probably one of the more unique anthology series out there. The titles have been producing a various number of interesting interpretations on the late writer’s work. Thus far, I have only seen P.O.E. 3: Pieces Of Eldrich besides this fourth installment, but I do have P.O.E. …

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Hung, Drawn And Slaughtered (2017) Book Review

Legendary Aussie artist Martin Trafford has been a busy boy, sketching covers and themes for a majority of indie films. He has also teamed up with German cult filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit, director of Nekromantik, to deliver a very cool underground comic that serves as a sequel to the films. Presented by …

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P.S.Y.C.H.O. Production’s ‘Zombiercalypse’ (2017) Short Film Review

Best Pils Productions and Violent Art have teamed up with P.S.Y.C.H.O. Productions to bring horror fans an entertaining, blood splashed short called Zombiercalypse. The film features Jim Aal as Jim Aal. It seems Aal has made quite the character of himself, as he was also in Cannibal Messiah, but in Zombiercalypse, …

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Bushwick (2017) Film Review

The film Bushwick comes to us at a time when the U.S. is in a state of political turmoil. I’m not a political person, but I can easily see on social media and television the many people who were dissatisfied with the current presidential situation. At the same time, I …

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Made Me Do It (2017) Film Review

Writer/director Benjamin Ironside Koppin delivers Made Me Do It, a psychological slasher which fortunately uses the up close and personal approach when introducing the killer. It’s hard to squeeze even a drop of originality into most modern horror/thrillers these days. At first glance, Made Me Do It seemed like it was …

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