Back in 1992, I went to the second Lollapalooza music festival. It, and similar music fests seem, to me, more like automat concert experiences than innovative cultural experiences. Regardless, all that Monsterpalooza has in common with the music festival of ...

If this horror fan thought he’d walk away from the Days of the Dead horror convention unscarred…he was wrong. Why yes, I believe those earrings do go nicely with your eyes. This is one of many creations on display throughout ...

Stanley Kubrick directed some of the most enigmatic films, so it is no wonder that someone like Rodney Ascher would come along and attempt to “decode” one of them. The subject of this documentary is The Shining, and in the ...

Making movies is a lot like visiting a salad bar. Everyone has his own preference for the most agreeable assemblage. Some like loading the plate high with potato salad and baby corn, and some like strategizing the arrangement to recreate ...

THE BEAST STIRS… Believe it or not, the life of a horror magazine editor can sometimes get tedious. After all, there are only so many hours one can sit watching psychotronic films; reading, editing, and writing articles; and maintaining a ...

This afternoon, Tony Scott, director of the cult horror classic The Hunger jumped to his death. From The Hunger’s opening sequence, it immediately distinguished itself from other entries in the canon of vampire films. With the performance of goth rock ...