In an early episode of scholar Peter Labuza’s podcast The Cinephiliacs, critic/programmer/filmmaker Kent Jones laments what he sees as an unfortunate tendency in film culture: namely, the inability of audiences to “confront a movie head-on.” Jones observes that rather than ...

Episode 3 “SHOCK… SHOCK… SHOCK!!!” The Sound Of Fear looks at the world of gothic horror, taking in the music of James Bernard and Hammer horror, the Corman Poe cycle, and the approach to realist shock horror. Episode Credits: Narrated by ...

Episode 2 “IT COMES TO LIFE!” The Sound Of Fear continues its journey through the history of horror film music, looking at the age of Universal PIctures and its monsters. Episode Credits: Narrated by Lisa Brigden Written, Produced, and Directed by ...

If you’re not yet watching El Rey Network on a regular basis – the time to start is now.  During the haunt season the channel has always played a nice collection of off the wall and little-seen classics and this ...

“Neon glyphs flash across the alley – blinking kanji. Hues of garish pink and red emerge, language of the night. Your android partner: a deadly weapon, just like you. She’s draped in the radiance, wearing it as camouflage. A prototype: ...

The sun remained intense on an early evening in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania recently as folks strolled about in the summer heat. At the same time something dark, sinister, and luring was brewing inside the historic Carnegie Library Music Hall of ...

Just last week the fine folks at Scream Factory  broke the news that they would be giving fans the definitive edition of John Carpenter’s THE THING with a two-disc Blu-ray Collector’s set and they have wasted no time in getting ...

Download MP3 Earlier this year, when Shout Factory announced their Blu-ray release of John Carpenter’s Village of the Damned, I can’t say I was enthusiastic about the news. It mostly served to remind me how much I wanted to like ...

An often overlooked John Carpenter film – Village of the Damned is actually a pretty creepy little flick and it’s great to see that Scream Factory is going to give it the love it deserves. Coming at us as a ...

Other than the schlocky but fun 2002 horror film by Eli Roth, cabin fever is best known as a “type of hysteria brought on by spending too much time indoors.” Along with seasonal depression, cabin fever is a feeling that ...