Reviews

In the summer of 1986, I remember seeing the trailer for Maximum Overdrive one afternoon and thought that it looked promising. Mainly because the creepy-looking Stephen King standing in front of the even creepier-looking Green Goblin head in the background promising to scare the Hell out of us intrigued me. …

Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox is a new concept in a genre we have begun ignoring. However, this movie humored me in several ways. It took a little time to figure out what was happening. There are still some things I don’t understand, but I think that’s how …

The fight for survival is a trope that will instantly raise the tension and the stakes in any cinematic genre. This is the case in Arena Wars, a futuristic drama in which the battle for freedom could have dire consequences. Let’s take a look at Arena Wars and see which …

I’m sure we’ve all be there: hurting for money, behind on bills and in desperate need of a quick fix. This is where Trim Season protagonist Emma finds herself. She finds her solution in the form of trimming buds of marijuana at a growth operation in the middle of nowhere …

In an industry that has given us such intellectually challenging fare such as: Sharknado, Mega Piranha, and, of course, Velocipastor, is it any wonder that, sooner or later, someone would take the piss and release something like Bad CGI Gator? Fortunately, for fans of cheese, Charles Band’s Full Moon Features …

  I found GWAR when I was about five years old. They were interviewed on a Hard and Heavy VHS that spotlighted both legends and newcomers to the industry.  I saw clips of their live show, and that was it.  GWAR was like my KISS, only better.  I used to …

The Afterdark Horrorfest: 8 Films To Die For –remember that? While the series was a great platform for new filmmakers to get noticed, and foreign filmmakers to get a foothold in the US, it was responsible for some turkeys too. And don’t get me started on the “Miss Horrorfest” crap. …

Spooky Madison is a triple threat: actor, writer and director. Spooky Madison has been racking up credits in the indie horror world for a while now and I got to check out a project of theirs that I’ve been dying to see: Rabbit Season. It’s a short film they acted, …

There’s a meme floating around about the Cryptkeeper reading kids’ bedtime stories of shock and things they shouldn’t have been doing anyway. It was magical when 11 PM on Saturday nights rolled around. It was like a ritual for me and my friends during many sleepovers. If I was at …

Since it’s Pride this month, this seems like the perfect time to highlight queer voices and representation in literature. I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of an upcoming graphic novel, The Science of Ghosts, written by Lilah Sturges and illustrated by El Garing. This book will be …