Tag Archives: Scream Factory

THE MOVIE Produced in 1966 by England’s legendary Hammer Films, The Plague of the Zombies was shot back-to-back with The Reptile by director John Gilling, using the same sets and locations. Period horrors set in Cornwall, these two “Cornish horrors” ...

These are busy times for director Don Coscarelli with the Phantasm 4K reissue and Phantasm: Ravager hitting the streets and now the final word on the long-awaited Scream Factory treatment for Bubba Ho-Tep  – it’s a good time to be ...

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 ...

Mark Pavia – does that name ring a bell?  It should – Mark directed Night Flier – an often overlooked adaptation of the Stephen King story by the same name.  A great little film that if you haven’t yet checked ...

There is no denying the iconic status of Dan O’Bannon’s 1985 zombie romp The Return of the Living Dead, a classic if ever there was one and although many editions of the flick have found their way to the fans ...

For years William Friedkin maintained that, despite all other opinions, his 1973 film The Exorcist was not a horror movie. “I thought it was a film about the mystery of faith … but I didn’t set out to make a ...

While the samurai film has its trappings as far back as the silent era, the genre received a major critical and populist push around and after WWII, when filmmakers like Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa began re-envisioning and expanding the ...

Takashi Miike is one of the most prolific filmmakers working today. Barreling close to 100 releases in his 55 years, Miike has found a way to work his vision into a wealth of diverse genres. While his 1999 cerebral horror ...

Well, another year has passed and we can now sit back and reflect on all the fantastic offerings that 2015 brought us. It was a particularly strong year for genre cinema. I mean, how many other years can you think ...

While director William Friedkin will always be known as the director of arguably the scariest film ever made (The Exorcist, duh) the truth be told it is but one film in a long and impressive list of cinema gems. One ...