The age of excess produced several films parodying the American consumer of the times: Chopping Mall (1986 – read our retro review here), The Night of the Comet (1984 – read our retro review here), and TerrorVision (1986) come to mind.  But none of them captured the true spirit of …

Adult Swim on Cartoon Network has recently taken a dip into the deep end of horror-centric, irreverent animated entertainment with JJ Villard’s Fairy Tales, and I love it. The series began on May 10th, with new episodes entertaining folks every Sunday night.  JJ has taken the time-honored Brothers Grimm stories …

William Malone’s Creature is bound to draw comparisons to Alien or even Aliens, although this 1985 film has enough to set it apart. While the alien itself (or the “Creature”) does have some similar characteristics to the Alien Queen, it also has some distinguishing features. In fact, this creature can literally …

Friday the 13th (1980) turns 40 years old in 2020. There’s no questioning the film’s impact on horror cinema. There’s also no questioning the impact on our writers. To honor the 40th anniversary, I asked our team to remember the film and to talk about the legacy and what the …

Kane Hodder is a name that is synonymous with the horror world. When a genre visionary needs a burly mountain of a man to play their mercenary, Kane is the one they call. Back in 1988, the man breathed new life into the iconic Jason Voorhees character, and now, he …

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 …

I absolutely love interviewing young talent. They’re so inspirational and have their whole lives ahead of them. That’s why I was honored when someone reached out to me about a young and brilliant actress and performer, Jonni Shandor. She may be young, but she knows what she wants and she’s …

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 …

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” — Stephen King Ever since I was in grade school and found the Universal monster books in the school library, I was immediately drawn to horror. The first horror movie I saw as a kid was The Exorcist …

Driven by a passion for horror and film, Director/Writer Erica Summers found her calling as a filmmaker at a young age. Gaining extensive behind the scenes work as a grip, Erica went on to write, produce, direct and edit indie films in various genres, including a powerful drama entitled Rag …