Mister Sleep is a new horror film coming soon to streaming platforms from Gravitas Ventures, Beyond Casual Media, and director Robert Hollocks (Applewood). The folks behind the film are marketing it as the first installment in a new slasher franchise. That’s always music to my ears, because let’s face it, …
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Celebrating 45 Years Of ‘Phantasm’ With Eight Fascinating Facts
On March 28th, 1979, Phantasm was released in U.S. cinemas, introducing horror fans to the dark, existential coming of age tale surrounding young Michael (A. Michael Baldwin) as he battles interdimensional minions, a flying silver sphere of death, and a menacing undertaker known as The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) alongside …
Read More »Who Knew Captain Kirk Had Mommy Issues?!? ‘IMPULSE’ (1974) Blu-ray Review
Grindhouse Releasing is amazing at cleaning up those old classics! Their stellar editions of The Beyond and Cannibal Holocaust are among my favorites. So, my curiosity was definitely piqued when I heard they were releasing Impulse, a seldom seen film from director William Grefe (Mako: The Jaws of Death) starring …
Read More »My Top 10 Favorite Horror Films With Non-Linear Plots
Films are so much more than just getting from point A to point B. Non-linear films play with time, expectations, human emotions, and feature bold new techniques in storytelling. This results in films that are often more emotionally moving than linear films. I have compiled a list of my favorite …
Read More »‘FORGOTTEN SISTERS’ : A Novel By Cynthia Pelayo – Book Review
Cynthia Pelayo is Bram Stoker Award winning author who has been on my TBR list for, I shamefully admit, awhile. She is a Chicago native and most of her stories are set in Chicago. I am from the Chicago area, so I absolutely love to check out local authors. When …
Read More »Screaming Under The Sea: 35 Years of ‘LEVIATHAN’ (1989)
Picture this, if you will. A group of miners are trapped in an enclosed space with a big monster on the loose trying to kill them one by one, and the company they work for is responsible for it. You may be thinking “Ah, Alien” right? WRONG! 10 years after …
Read More »The Remake We Never Knew We Needed: ‘DAWN OF THE DEAD’ (2004) Turns 20
The announcement that Zack Snyder (300, 2006) would be remaking George Romero’s classic, Dawn of the Dead (1978) (read our retro review here) got a resounding, ‘that’s sacrilege!” from myself and my crowd, which, at the time, the only place we would be screaming this other than toward each other was …
Read More »My Top 10 Favorite Horror Films Directed By Women
Women horror film directors offer new, fresh perspectives that are unique to women alone. They explore experiences like rape, motherhood, puberty, menstruation, aging, and the constant struggle women face to simply be heard. Rarely will you see women in these films used as shallow sex objects: they are fully formed …
Read More »25 Years Of ‘THE RAGE: CARRIE 2’ (1999) – Retro Review
Poor emotional regulation apparently runs heavily in the White family genes. 25 years after the release of Stephen King’s novel, and 23 years after the award-winning film adaptation of Carrie (1976), we learned that the legacy of the White family had hardly stopped with Carrie (Sissy Spacek, Castle Rock, 2018), …
Read More »Kyle McConaghy’s ‘SHEEP’S CLOTHING’ Explores Christian Dichotomy
Available now on demand from Amazon Prime, Sheep’s Clothing directed by Kyle McConaghy, written by Kyle McConaghy, Nick Heyman and Aaron Pfifer. Sheep’s Clothing stars Aaron Pfifer as Mansa, Nick Heyman as Pastor, and Sean Heyman as Terry. Synopsis A violent attack leaves high school principal Mansa Harper with a …
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