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Horror, Hops, and Hot Sauce: An Interview With Indie Filmmaker D. Ryan Mowry
Passionate indie filmmaker, craft beer connoisseur, and home garden guru, D. Ryan Mowry has made it his goal to bring fans a movie teeming with nostalgic backwoods horror – There’s Something Inhuman in the Woods. After ditching his corporate ball and chain, Mowry has become laser-focused on fulfilling the creative …
Read More »Review: ‘FINAL CUT’ is a Pale Imitation of a True Original
I don’t think anyone who really knows me questions my view on remakes – I hate them. If you want to reboot a film and make it your own that’s one thing, but why mess with with something that’s already great? And the low budget Japanese zombie film One Cut …
Read More »Coming Soon to Select Theaters: ‘FINAL CUT’
Coming soon to select theaters from Kino Lorber and director Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) is a new comedy/horror film: Final Cut. The film stars Romain Duris (The Animal Kingdom), Berenice Bejo (The Artist), and Gregory Gadebois (A Great Friend). Final Cut Synopsis Things go badly for a small film crew …
Read More »Watch Out For Heidi!: ‘MAD HEIDI’ (2023) – Film Review
Grindhouse is a particularly interesting sub-set of the horror and exploitation genres. It has to have this strangely gleeful low-budget sleaze about it, while making for an eye-catching film viewing. Many films, like Grindhouse, try to nail the exploitation vibe, but there are more imitators than films that reach it. …
Read More »James DeMonaco’s ‘THE PURGE’ (2013): 10 years of Class Warfare
With another year closer to the next event we thought could never happen, this world proves it’s destined to make liars of us all. As fiction horror seems to grow more feasible to reality, my two highest concerns are a virus outbreak that reanimates us into violent mindless zombies, and …
Read More »‘WAXWORK’ (1988) at 35: Quintessential ’80s Horror – Retro Review
The story of my love for Waxwork (1988) starts as so many of my stories do: at my hometown video store. It’s a familiar refrain. Back in the mid to late ’80s, my good friend John and I frequently walked down to the local theater, which also rented out VHS …
Read More »‘BURY ME TWICE’ (2022): A Fun Zombie-Horror-Noir Experiment – Review
Fast zombies. Slow zombies. Trains headed to Busan. Remakes. Talking zombies. Zombie romance. Zom-Coms. Aussie films. The Walking Dead. Zombie musicals. The zombie renaissance started in the early 2000s and it’s never really let up. You have to admit, zombies have been done to death (no pun intended) in recent …
Read More »Horror’s Top 25+ Most Memorable Final Guys
A lot has been said about horror’s Final Girls, but can we talk about a chunk of hunks who have managed to make it to the credit roll? In no particular order, here are 25—give or take—of horror’s most memorable Final Guys. 1. Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) SURVIVED: The Evil Dead …
Read More »A Video Game Come To Life – ‘The Last Of Us’ (2023) – Review
The Last of Us video game was released June 14th, 2013 for the PlayStation 3. Once it was released, many video game broadcasters on YouTube and Twitch had begun playing it in front of their audiences, which made it a rather popular game to talk about. The game had won …
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