Reviews

For the most part, the Universal monster films I saw as a kid (Saturday afternoons when I was a wee lad on WUAB 43 out of Cleveland, Super Host!!) were pretty engrossing to my pre-adolescent mind. Lugosi’s Dracula was creepy, as was Karloff’s muted menacing in Frankenstein, but the full …

2015’s The Slashening was a solid, hilarious horror/comedy film filled with enough gags, gore and winks and nods to the audience to satisfy even the most ardent of Troma fans. Finally arriving on Blu-ray, writer/director Brandon Bassham’s (Shakespeare’s Shitstorm) 2021 gonzo, irreverent sequel, Slashening: The Final Beginning takes it up …

Blumhouse’s Imaginary (2024) hit big screens this weekend with tepid reviews due to the oversell/underdeliver factor that can come with taking on such a high concept with the intent to keep it sleek and simple. But if there’s one thing horror fans are good at, it’s finding potential scares in unlikely …

“Based on true events” films are hit and miss. Often over dramatized and of dubious quality, they can easily fall into terrible TV reenactment territory. The Lost, adapted from the late Jack Ketchum’s (The Girl Next Door) novel, that in turn was based upon real life killer Charles Schmid, is …

A ton of shot-on-video stuff, while inspired, fell through the cracks during the home video explosion of the late 80s-early 90s. But, while dusting this stuff off for sharper new releases, Wild Eye’s Visual Vengeance unearthed a lost gem that was (Yikes!) shot on Super-8: The Wrong Door. Synopsis Ted …

Unpredictably eerie is how I will describe A Stranger in the Woods. I was one of the lucky ones to gain early access to this mysteriously alluring film. However, the film’s director, Jozsef Gallai (I Hear The Trees Whispering 2022) has sworn me to secrecy, and I intend to uphold …

Cruel Intentions was released on March 5,1999. It was a modern retelling of the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses and was cast full of the popular young talent of the time. Let’s revisit this film and some movie trivia on its 25th anniversary to see if it is still deliciously evil …

Body swap horror goes back decades but was popularized in the 1970s by David Cronenberg (The Fly 1986)(check out our tribute article to David here). We’ve seen the transference of souls through all different mediums and purposes in horror. But few modern takes on this trope have been done as …

The “Godfather of Gore,” Herschell Gordon Lewis (The Gore, Gore Girls) left a blood soaked, indelible mark on horror with many of his films before his passing, none was more notorious at the time, than Blood Feast. This was controversial stuff in 1963, in fact, its tagline, “nothing so appalling …

In the vast realm of cinema, some tales captivate audiences through their intricacies, character dynamics, and thematic depth. A Stranger in the Woods, directed by József Gallai, stands as a compelling narrative that intertwines the lives of two unlikely individuals — an isolated man and a young film student — …