Quite early in his career, Tobe Hooper became a formidable director with the success of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. There are some folks who dislike this film for whatever reason, but it has been championed by enough ...
Read More »Welcome to the Wasteland: Drifter (2016)
Whether it’s through nuclear holocausts, global war, disease, meteor strikes, natural disasters or other forms of devastation capable of wiping out civilisation as we know it, post-apocalyptic worlds have served as backdrops in literature and cinema for quite some time. ...
Read More »Massacres and Traps: Tobe Hooper’s Southern Horror Films
It is not surprising that the term ‘American Gothic’ still makes folk automatically think of the more traditional traps of British and European Gothic; moonlit castles, howling wolves, heaving bosoms, pitchfork wielding villagers and Michael Ripper. By contrast, American Gothic ...
Read More »‘Death House’ Will Unite Horror Icons
A much rumored ‘Expendables Of Horror’ project has been the subject of much buzz the last few years and while that particular project always seems to include Bruce Campbell in the mix, I’m assuming that this project – titled Death ...
Read More »February Means Love for Scream Factory
Well, it is the last day of February and we are sitting here looking over all of the titles that Scream Factory has unveiled. It may be the shortest month of the year, but it was still one hell of ...
Read More »Never Sleep Again (US Blu-ray Review)
As a fan of horror and many of the numerous franchises it has spawned, it is rather refreshing to see documentaries about the genre that aren’t relegated to special features on special edition DVDs. Thusly, the arbitrary sense of individuality ...
Read More »Sanitarium (Film Review)
Sanitarium, a superb horror anthology film “hosted by” Malcolm McDowell, presents the curious facts preceding the committal of three individuals to a mental hospital. The three patients are under the care of Dr. Henry Stenson (McDowell). I hope Sanitarium signals ...
Read More »Interview: Danielle Harris on “Among Friends”, “See No Evil 2”
As any genre fan may know by now, the world of horror has always had such a strange and tumultuous relationship with women as a gender. Whereas often times horror films will rely on a female figure as the “sole ...
Read More »Interview: Bill Moseley on “All American Massacre”, “Smothered”
It goes without saying that there are a ton of no-name actors that have made their mark in the horror genre but sadly disappeared shortly after. These are people that just didn’t deliver the type of performance that it takes ...
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