Tag Archives: Robert Rodriguez

This Year, We’re Thankful For Eli Roth: ‘THANKSGIVING’ (2023) – Review

“They don’t make ’em like they used to,” us old-timer horror fans say frequently, as we begrudgingly shove our credit cards into the box office kiosk or violently smack at the buttons on our smartphones to purchase tickets to the latest release in this ever-evolving genre. Well, now we can …

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Filmmaker Ricky Glore Opens Up About ‘Open House’ – Interview

We recently got the chance to chat with indie horror filmmaker and comedian Ricky Glore and picked his brain about his films, All Your Friends Are Dead, Caw, Racyst, Dead Woods, and his upcoming horror comedy, Open House. Check it out! PopHorror: You’ve only been in the film industry for …

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Interview With ‘The Scout’ Writer/Director Michael Kallio

The Scout is a found footage horror film that takes the perspective of an in-progress, behind-the-scenes documentary on a fictional, micro budget horror film gone wrong. We wanted to share our chat with Writer/Director Michael Kallio about the film. PopHorror: Hi Michael! Thank you so much for agreeing to do …

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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 …

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Coming Soon To On Demand: Jason Baker’s ‘Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini’ Documentary

Coming Soon to On Demand from Wild Eye Releasing and Director Jason Baker is a new documentary called Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini. The film features Tom Savini, Danny McBride, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo, Alice Cooper, Tom Atkins, and Doug Bradley. It will be available October 19, …

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‘The Faculty’ (1998): An Underrated Classic Turns 20 – Retro Review

The Faculty (1998)

Screenwriter Kevin Williamson burst onto the scene in the mid 1990’s with a speculative screenplay he called Scary Movie. The Weinstein Company and Director Wes Craven produced the script and re-titled it Scream just before release. The rest, as they say, is history. Scream changed horror forever and made its screenwriter …

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Blood, Feminism, and Catholicism: Interview With Filmmaker Elizabeth E. Schuch

PopHorror had the pleasure to interview Filmmaker Elizabeth E. Schuch about her aspirations, her inspirations, and her latest creation, The Book of Birdie (2017). This groundbreaking director delivers a visually stimulating experience that meshes Catholic ideology, feminism, and a girl’s fascination with blood to deliver a spectacular film that defies …

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Behind The Bong… An Interview With ‘4/20 Massacre’ Director Dylan Reynolds

You can see by our review that we loved the movie 4/20 Massacre (2018), filmmaker Dylan Reynold’s debut horror flick. Although he has a bunch of credits working in the film industry, his directing projects are few, although we honestly admit that his talent in directing makes up for his …

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WTF Festival Presents ‘Lowlife’: Bad Pulp Snatch with Rage

Lowlife

Few filmmakers are able to successfully pay homage to renowned action directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Guy Ritchie without failing miserably or ripping them off entirely. With multiple, interwoven subplots, ridiculous crime debacles, gruesome action and humorous scenarios, films like Pulp Fiction, Machete and Snatch bare a style …

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Interview With Paul Ragsdale And Angie De Alba, The Team Behind ‘Streets of Vengeance’

I’m a huge fan of the films Cinco De Mayo and Streets of Vengeance, so I was super excited when Paul Ragsdale and Angie De Alba, the team behind these awesome films, agreed to do an interview with me. We talked about their love of films, their films, their use of …

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