Work-related horror often brings some of the best ambiance to the genre, as co-workers being trapped in a confined space ratchets up the internal clock and limits the options of the survivors. Such is the case in Black Friday, a horror comedy named after the newly formed “holiday.” As we …
Read More »Beautiful Trash: Grindhouse Releasing’s ‘HOLLYWOOD 90028’ – Blu-ray Review
Bob Murawski and the late Sage Stallone’s Grindhouse Releasing, famed for cleaning up those gritty, grimy and often (and maybe rightfully so) overlooked films that existed on the fringes of “respectable” cinema, gives the seldom seen Hollywood 90028 a shiny new package with all the bells and whistles that collectors …
Read More »Leah Sturgis’s ‘TRAPPED INN’ (2024) – Movie Review
Lisa Sturgis has been producing and directing films and commercials for 20 years. Trapped Inn is one of her beautifully wild stories. I have to say I enjoyed the movie a lot. It’s going to be a movie to watch again and again. Let’s talk about why I feel this …
Read More »Dallas King’s ‘SWAP’ (2024) – Movie Review
Swap, written, directed, and starring Dallas King, is a new film that has turned the tables on typical vampire movies. It could easilyhave been a trashy romance novel. Swap is a modern-day 70s exploitation film. Check out the trailer below, then read on for the review! Synopsis New couple, Rad (James …
Read More »They Shouldn’t Have Let Him In: ‘CRAWLSPACE’ (1972) Revisited – Retro Review
My wife and I have started watching old made for TV movies from the 70s and 80s on Tubi and YouTube recently. The other night we found one called Crawlspace from 1972 that neither one of us had ever seen or even heard of. We thought that it sounded like …
Read More »Why the New ‘IT’ Series on Max is a Bad Idea
As you may have heard by now, HBO Max, or Max, has greenlit a new project entitled It: Welcome to Derry and it is set to take place in the 1960s before the events of the first film. A lot of fans have expressed their excitement about the show but …
Read More »Review: Amber Sealy’s ‘OUT OF MY MIND’ (2024) – A Disney+ Original
Though we mainline horror here, I had the opportunity to screen Amber Leary’s Out of My Mind. A Disney+ Original?! I asked the same question at first. However, upon seeing the preview, it sounded interesting. So, I took the bait and chose to review this movie. It was nothing like I …
Read More »THE CRYING BOY – Graphic Novel Review
A recently widowed mother moves to Queens with her young son. Her son finds himself taken with a haunting painting that is a conduit for evil in the graphic novel The Crying Boy. Synopsis After the tragic death of her husband, a woman and her son restart their life in …
Read More »The Watts Brothers’ ‘BLACK DARUMA’ (2023) – Review
Found footage movies have become a dime a dozen in the same rank as the zombie explosion. Several stand out, but most just fade into repetition. It’s a tricky subgenre because you can do only so much. Found footage also blurs the line between reality and imagination, and most times, …
Read More »‘SILENT BITE’ (2024) – Blu Ray Review
Recently, I was introduced to actor Simon Phillips through the movie that I reviewed, The Bouncer (read HERE). While looking at his IMDb page, I discovered he wrote and starred in Silent Bite, a Christmas vampire versus bank robber story. I decided to pick up the Blu-ray, which came out …
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