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Steven Kostanski’s ‘DEATHSTALKER’ (2025) Review: Blood, Beasts, and B-Movie Bliss

STEVEN KOSTANSKI’S DEATHSTALKER (2025) isn’t the kind of fantasy film that tries to compete with sprawling, big-budget franchises. Instead, it leans into the joy of retro adventure—embracing the camp, blood, and bizarre creativity that made the 1980s sword-and-sorcery boom so endearing to cult audiences. It’s a bold, knowingly ridiculous resurrection …

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Laugh At The Devil – 25 Years of ‘BEDAZZLED’ (2000)

As mentioned many times previously, most remakes are unnecessary or worse. Then you have ones that were actually good such as The Thing and Ocean’s 11. There was another one that many felt was just as good as the original, and that was the 2000 comedy BEDAZZLED.  To understand BEDAZZLED …

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Japanese Practical FX Monster Movie ‘BAKEMONO’ Wins Best Feature and Three FX Awards

Inspired by The Thing but shot in Japan, Bakemono won Best Feature at the Spooky Empire Horror Film Festival. At the Atlanta Horror Film Festival, it won Best Special Effects and at the Motor City Nightmares Film Festival, it also won Best Special Effects. At A Night of Horror Film …

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Ronin James’s ‘AMITYVILLE BARBI VS THE EVIL DEAD-O’s’ (2025) – Short Film Review

I’m a huge fan of The Evil Dead series. Any time something is said to be in that style, it always piques my interest. One of the latest is Amityville Barbi Versus The Evil Dead-O’s. Read on for my thoughts on the short film. Synopsis Barbi (JESSA FLUX) has a …

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Spencer Charnas and Matthew Lillard Unite for Ice Nine Kills’ Joker-Inspired ‘THE LAUGH TRACK’

Ice Nine Kills is once again expanding its twisted cinematic universe — this time with a Tim Burton twist and the help of a horror legend. On Oct. 9, the band dropped the music video for its highly-anticipated song “The Laugh Track,” inspired by the 1989 Batman film by Burton and its …

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Lost in a Sea of Monotony: ‘THE DROWNED’ (2025) – Movie Review

Making his feature film debut, director Samuel Clemens takes viewers on an isolating trip to a house that feels abandoned near the edge of the world. Woven with references to Greek mythology, The Drowned follows three thieves who have just stolen a priceless painting and arrive at a secluded safe …

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Stephen King’s ‘SILVER BULLET’ (1985) – Still Tearing Us To Pieces – Retro Review

Stephen King’s Silver Bullet may have been one of the first horror movies I’ve ever seen, and I fell in love with it. As a young child, there was nothing scarier—or cooler—to me than werewolves. Vampires were scary, yes, but you could speak to them and possibly barter with them. …

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Adrian Langley’s ‘THE OVAL PORTRAIT’ (2025) – Movie Review

Edgar Allen Poe’s The Oval Portrait is a story that has had several different variations, leading to Adrian Langley’s modern telling, which is honestly more terrifying than the story itself. The film has rolled right under the radar since 1972. I don’t understand how people could look right past this …

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