An American Werewolf in London is one of the two greatest werewolf films ever made. (Hint: The other film came out in 1981, too.). There isn’t anything that I could say that hasn’t been said over the last 42 years since the film’s release. It’s more than a classic. It’s …
Read More »Smoke And Mirrors: Interview With SFX Wizard Tom Savini
He’s a director (Night of the Living Dead 1990), a special effects and makeup genius (Creepshow, Maniac), an actor (From Dusk Till Dawn), and even a stuntman (Friday the 13th, Dawn of the Dead). If you watch horror movies, chances are you’ve seen something connected to Tom Savini, either directly …
Read More »Slaughtered Lambs: John Landis’ ‘An American Werewolf in London’ (1981) – Retro Review
Writer/director John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London was released forty years ago on August 21, 1981, and it is inarguably the greatest werewolf movie of all time. I’d also say it’s one of the best horror films of the ‘80s, a decade that’s absolutely saturated with genre classics. Notably, …
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 »Interview with Jimmy Lee Combs: Driven by the Heyday of Horror
Most horror fanatics would agree that the ’80s and ’90s were the heyday of horror. It was an era that pushed the limits and created nearly every subgenre we know and love today. Driven by his love for the genre, Jimmy Lee Combs explored the roots of some of these …
Read More »Bonehill Road (2017) – Film Review
Seasoned horror veteran director Todd Sheets delivers his latest indie horror opus upon the masses with Bonehill Road. This film is a love letter to classics like The Howling, Silver Bullet and American Werewolf In London – minus the comedy. Although Sheets has been creating gloriously gory films for over 30 …
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