Jordan Rubin’s Zombeavers was unleashed upon Americans on March 20, 2015. It didn’t upend our corrupt society or revolutionize cinema, but it did remind us that nature can bite back. Then, after it does, there’s always the chance that we’ll all be transformed into humanoid zombie beaver creatures! Yes, lessons …
Read More »9 Things You Didn’t Know About Dan Curtis’ ‘Trilogy Of Terror’ (1975)
March 4, 2020, marks the 45th anniversary of Emmy Award winning Director Dan Curtis’ TV movie, Trilogy Of Terror (1975). The film contains three different bizarre horror stories all staring Karen Black as four completely separate yet tormented women. Let’s take a look back at this infamous thriller with 9 …
Read More »‘Candyman: Farewell To The Flesh’ (1995) Retro Review
Nearly every horror fan has heard about the macabre revenge slasher, Candyman (1992). However, not everyone is as well acquainted with the sequel, which released three years later on March 7, 1995. Enter 1995’s Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, where the lovable Tony Todd (Candy Corn 2019) reprised his role as …
Read More »40 Years Of The Post-Apocalypse: ‘Mad Max’ (1979)
These days, post-apocalyptic road movies are a dime a dozen. Some can be very entertaining, like Zombieland (2009), or an epic flop, like Zombie Hunter (2013), but the genre has been done to death. It wasn’t always like this. Once upon a time, the genre was fresh and new. The …
Read More »Adam Green’s ‘Frozen’ (2010): Still Chilling A Decade Later
Before we start, I have to tell you: I’m a huge Adam Green fan. I discovered him through a friend on social media around 2004 or 2005. He was working on Hatchet (2006 – read our retro review here), his first feature, at the time. He was out pounding the …
Read More »‘The Crazies’ (2010) The 10th Anniversary
On February 26, 2010 the world was reintroduced to The Crazies. Staring Timothy Olyphant (A Perfect Getaway, Santa Clarita Diet, Scream 2), Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill, Rouge, Pitch Black) The Crazies follow the story of the aftermath of a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a …
Read More »Looking Back On Forty Years of ‘The Fog’ (1980) – Retro Review
The horror film, The Fog, was released 4 decades ago on February 8, 1980 to critical success. This cult classic comes from one of the masters of horror, John Carpenter. He directed, co-wrote the screen play, and created the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau (Creepshow 1982 – read …
Read More »Still Savage – 40 Years of Shock and Awe With ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ (1980)
Let’s face it… horror by its very nature is a lightning rod for controversy. It’s the genre of film tailor-made to push the envelope, to take things to extremes where others would dare not tread. We live to test the limits of decency, to see just how much we can …
Read More »It’s Been 15 Years Since We’ve Been ‘Cursed’ (2005) – Retro Review
There’s an elite tier of films out there. There’s the poor, unfortunate lot of potential blockbusters that got off track and eventually derailed in a fiery explosion of overspending, inflated egos, studio meddling, and about a thousand different interpretations of what the original vision happened to be. It inevitably is …
Read More »Slaughter In Slovakia – Looking Back At Eli Roth’s ‘Hostel’ (2005)
Earlier this month marked the fifteenth anniversary of one of the most uncompromising additions to modern horror – Eli Roth’s Hostel. In 2005, when Hostel was unleashed at the Toronto International Film Festival, the United States and beyond were facing some diabolical issues. Issues such as terrorism, war, and the …
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