Raven Banner Entertainment’s new dark and thrilling film, Everyone Will Burn (Y Todos Arderan), premieres tonight at Fantastic Fest. This is David Hebrero’s Spanish-language sophomore feature. Hebrero directed and co-wrote and produced with Javier Kiran. Everyone Will Burn stars Macarena Gomez and Sofía García. Following a world premiere at Sitges, …
Read More »Budjette Tan Puts Pilipino Horror On The Map With ‘Trese’ – Comic Book Review
Budjette Tan is the mastermind behind Trese, which was first published in 2005. This Filipino komik (Tagalog for comic) was completed by Kajo Baldisimo, who ingeniously embossed the depictions on the book’s pages. This dark fantasy series tells a story of a gatekeeping crusader whose fate and family has left …
Read More »Ti West’s ‘Pearl’ (2022): This Prequel Will Have You On A String – Movie Review
Earlier this year, Ti West brought us X, a glorious amalgamation of schlocky ’70s sexploitation slasher films made with a modern style of storytelling and visual aesthetic. Almost simultaneous to the release of X was the announcement of a prequel, Pearl, that would shift the setting from the ’70s back …
Read More »Halloween Horror Nights 2022: BANG or BUST? – Event Review
Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights rolled out the red carpet to celebrate opening night pn September 9, 2022. They welcomed Hollywood icons such as the OG final girl herself, Jamie Lee Curtis, filmmakers Jordan Peele and Jason Blum, Freaky star Vince Vaughn, Nope star Brandon Perea, Halloween Ends star …
Read More »Ablaze, Stefano Vietti And Marco Checchetto’s ‘Life Zero’: Issues 1-5 – Comic Book Review
A Fresh Bite out of the Zombie Apocalypse? Screenwriter Stefano Vietti has teamed up with Marco Checchetto, the artist of Marvel Comics’ Daredevil, to bring the world of horror a new outlook on the zombie apocalypse through Ablaze Publishing. Their new comic, Life Zero, opens with scarce information or introductions …
Read More »“As You Wish:” Looking Back At Robert Kurtzman’s ‘Wishmaster’ (1997)
As of September 19, 2022, Robert Kurtzman’s (The Walking Dead franchise) second directorial project, Wishmaster, is 25 years young. Starring Andrew Divoff (our interview) and Tammy Lauren, the film is about a young jewel appraiser (Lauren) who is given a stolen jewel to look over, one that happens to have …
Read More »Matt Sobel’s ‘Goodnight Mommy’ (2022): An Unnecessary Remake You’ll Forget By Morning – Movie Review
There is nothing inherently wrong with remakes. The telling and retelling of tales is a practice as old as humanity. But with the ability to record and mass produce books and films comes the question: “Is this necessary?” The bar for this isn’t that high. Some films hold up well …
Read More »They All Float: Looking Back At Andy Muschietti’s ‘IT’ (2017)
Stephen King's It was a 1990 mini-series that got a re-boot in 2017 to tell the original stories with a new cast and a new attitude.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Retaliators’ (2022 ) Delivers Chaotic, Bloody Revenge
The Retaliators (2022) is a film that I’ve been wanting to see ever since it appeared on my radar after PopHorror’s Screamfest Horror Film Festival review. You may read another writer’s review here. The film sounds right up my alley. A horror-thriller about revenge, which who doesn’t love a good …
Read More »Mahal Empire Release: Michael Su’s ‘Death Count’ (2022) – Film Review
A fun fact: as a horror fan, I tend to not like gore for the sake of gore and anything considered extreme horror or torture horror. I usually avoid those movies like the plague. A movie that changed my mind to give some extreme horror movies a chance was Saw …
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