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Let Me Go (The Right Way) is the most recent short film addition to ALTER’s platform. The film has some big names attached to it, which intrigued me even more to check it out. The film was written and produced by Owen King (Stephen King’s son). It was directed by …

XYZ Films has just acquired the rights to director Franklin Ritch’s (Bedridden) sci-fi film, The Artifice Girl. The film stars Tatum Matthews (The Gift), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), and Sinda Nichols (J Doe). The film world premiered at Fantasia Festival, with its US premiere last week at SXSW. Synopsis: The story …

I enjoy folklore horror films.  It’s not something we get a lot of and I like the lore part of them. They are usually set in quaint, small towns, which is why we find what happens there so shocking.  When I first found out about Well Go USA’s latest film …

Available now to stream on Tubi from October Coast and director Ehrland Hollingsworth (Family Therapy) is a new horror western: Homestead. The film stars Brian Krause (Sleepwalkers, Charmed), Jamie Bernadette (I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu), and Diamond Dallas Page (The Devil’s Rejects). Homestead Synopsis In this nail-biting mesh …

Somewhere between Rod Serling and The Crypt Keeper, wandering down the darkest roads of the human psyche, was The Hitchhiker. HBO’s first stab at a horror/thriller anthology series ran successfully from 1983 to 1987, then continued its reign on the USA Network from 1989 to 1991. Yet, we don’t hear or …

In Swarm writer/producer Janine Nabers (Watchmen (2019) and actor-musician Donald Glover (Atlanta (2022), explore toxic fandom with some gore, cringe, and dark humor. Bring on the Gore and Cringe! If you’ve watched Atlanta, you’d know their creative team brings cringe and has put a unique spin on horror and surrealism. …

2020 was an insane year. From a devastating pandemic, worldwide police brutality marches, a bizarre election, missing toilet paper, and spicy chicken sandwiches (Popeye’s was better). While the pandemic had us on lockdown, movie theaters weren’t deemed essential. Production studios had to reconstruct their model to get movies to the …

While technically not a horror convention (my usual haunts), Fantasticon-Toledo this past weekend, had plenty to offer the average horror fan. Walking into the, very full on Sunday, Seagate Convention Center, you immediately got the feeling that you were, somewhat anyways, among “your tribe”. There was definitely some full frontal …

Rest In Peace, Pearry Reginald Teo, 7/23/1978-3/9/2023. The world of independent cinema has lost a true visionary and respected filmmaker. Pearry Reginald Teo passed away of, as of yet, undisclosed causes, at his Hollywood home on March 9th, 2023. He was 44 years old. The Singapore-born Teo came to the …

Dear Mr. Cronenberg,  March 15th marks your 80th trip around the sun. An auspicious occasion in itself, but you sir, are celebrating 80 glorious years on this earth, many of which were spent making indispensable films, writing novels, acting, and being a father. You helped create a new, subversive sub-genre, …