Remember the 1995 film While You Were Sleeping, starring Sandra Bullock? Well, that would make the perfect subtitle for AMC’s companion show/prequel to the immensely popular The Walking Dead, with one minor tweak – While You Were Sleeping, Rick Grimes! ...
Read More »‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ [Review]
Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice bombarded bookshelves and internet venues in the spring of 2009 to a surprising amount of praise. After reaching No. 3 on the New York Times Best-Seller list, a movie seemed forthcoming. ...
Read More »‘Auteur’ [DVD Review]
George Cameron Romero, the son of legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, explores the all-encompassing nature of the Auteur Theory, and its potential dark side in his film Auteur (2014). The picture is shot mostly in a documentary style and it ...
Read More »‘Memory Lane’ [DVD Review]
How much does it cost to make an independent film? If you ask writer/director Shawn Holmes, he will tell you it cost less than $300 to create Memory Lane (2012). According to the filmmaker, he spent $280 on food for his ...
Read More »Happy Birthday, Robert Englund
Over this past weekend, Robert Englund celebrated his birthday and we’d like to take the chance to wish him a very happy birthday. The talented thespian, best known for portraying the man of our dreams Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on ...
Read More »Rest in Peace, Betsy Palmer
Actress Betsy Palmer, best known to horror film fans around the world as Jason Voorhees’ mother Pamela Voorhees, has passed away. She was 88-years old. Palmer died on Friday at a Connecticut hospice care center, according to her manager Brad Lemack. The ...
Read More »‘Frankenstein’s Hungry Dead’ [DVD Review]
Do you ever wonder what would happen if The Breakfast Club (1985) met Frankenstein (1931) in Vincent Price’s House of Wax (1953)? Well, the answer is divulged in Scorpio Film Releasing’s satirical horror vehicle Frankenstein’s Hungry Dead (2013). The Hungry ...
Read More »‘The Sins of Dracula’ [DVD review]
Billy (Jamie Dufault), a devout Christian follower, is tempted by his kind-hearted but alluring girlfriend Shannon (Sarah Nicklin). She convinces Billy to step outside his comfort zone and show off his singing prowess when auditioning for a small community theater. ...
Read More »‘Metal Hurlant Chronicles’ [Blu-ray review]
Metal Hurlant Chronicles has finally arrived on DVD and Blu-ray. The show, which originally aired on the Syfy Channel in 2012 and 2014, is based on a periodical first published in the United States in April 1977 called Heavy Metal. The science fiction publication was ...
Read More »‘Borgman’ [Blu-ray Review]
Borgman is too enigmatic for its own good. Jan Bijovet gives a riveting performance as the beguiling and fiendish Camiel Borgman in writer, actor and director Alex van Warmerdam’s Dutch thriller Borgman. However, the magnificent performance is lost in the ...
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