Festivals and Conventions

Anyone who knows me knows I’m a sucker for horror comedies. There’s just something gratifying about a genre flick that can laugh at itself. So it was my absolute pleasure to be able to review Laugh Now Die Later Shorts Block, the horror comedy block from this year’s Brooklyn Horror …

Ever since I found out about Wolfman’s Got Nards, I have been looking forward to seeing this documentary about The Monster Squad. The Monster Squad  is one of my most favorite films of all time. It combines the power of friendship, the ’80s and Universal movie monsters. What’s not to …

This past week, the 2018 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival was held. I had the opportunity to view two of the horror short film blocks. The first one was Creeping Terror. The second one was Slayed – LGBT Horror Shorts. These short films were excellent and morbidly beautiful. I’m going to share …

If you’ve never watched a horror short, you’re truly missing out. I’ll never stop being amazed at how beautiful, well-crafted and horrifying these stories can be in just a short amount of time. It’s impressive and not everyone can pull it off. While covering the 2018 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, …

Halloween Horror Nights 28’s 10 haunted houses are split clean down the middle – 5 based on movies and TV shows and 5 original concepts. I covered the IP houses in the first part of my review, so that leaves an absolute grab bag of houses to prove what Universal’s …

For this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, I decided to shift a bit out of my comfort zone and review a sci-fi film. I’ve never been a fan of science fiction, so picking Rigel Films’ sci-fi thriller, Empathy Inc., was a tricky decision from the start. So, was it a good …

Nothing gets under my skin like the syrupy perfume of fog juice. It’s a conditioned response that tells the pit in my stomach that an unholy night is falling, where the shadows stretch into sinister shapes, chainsaws beckon like gas-fed cicadas and lines creep on for all eternity. That smell …

Last weekend, I was invited to attend media night for the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor haunted maze event in Long Beach, California. I had never attended such an event, and to say I was excited, thrilled and honored is an understatement. The more I read about it, the more elated I …

I recently had the opportunity to attend the premiere for a great horror thriller at the LA Film Festival called The Dead Center. I can honestly say that this film is a thrilling horror film that continued to improve right up to its thrilling conclusion. Official Synopsis: When a mysterious “John …

The 2018 Fantasia International Film Festival has been one hell of a ride, and sadly, it will soon be wrapping up. Although we covered a lot of the feature film hits, we are also giving some love to the shorts as well. On that note, here are my thoughts on …