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If there’s one person capable of capturing the psychological unraveling of a tortured writer, it’s Stephen King. His novella, Secret Window, Secret Garden was published in the collection, Four Past Midnight (1990). It depicts a writer whose life is in shambles and whose mind is sure to follow. Adapted for the …

Blumhouse has done it again. From M3GAN to Five Nights at Freddy’s (our review), the LA-based production company has been dominating the PG-13 horror space over the past few years. And it’s newest addition to the family — Imaginary — is yet another eerie delight. A few days before the film’s official March 8 release, …

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 …

Phil Allocco is an award-winning film writer and director, whose recent film 5lbs of Pressure blends genres of crime, romance, and thriller. The film looks at characters who are violent criminals yet perhaps have the potential to change…but will they? We wanted to ask Mr. Allocco about 5lbs of Pressure, …

“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 …

Tory Jones is a director I have followed closely since The Wicked One. He’s one of my favorite indie horror filmmakers and has never failed to impress me, especially with his most recent effort Phantom Fun-World. Tory is currently working on the reimagining of The Wicked One, entitled The Boy …

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 …

Sometimes a film makes perfect sense: Point A to point B, no problem. But then there are the ones that make you go: “HUH?” These are all great films! But they are different, strange, and down right weird. And I’m here for it. Here, in no particular order, are my …