Tag Archives: Zombie

In Italy, it was considered the ‘unofficial sequel’ to DAWN OF THE DEAD. In England, it was known as ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS and banned as obscene. In America, it was called ZOMBIE and advertised with the depraved tag line “WE ...

The 13th of March marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Italian film maker Lucio Fulci. While Fulci dipped his toes into many genres (including Westerns and Musicals) throughout the years it is his horror films that he is ...

The first time I saw Nightmare City aka The City of the Walking Dead, I just wasn’t ready for it. I was 14 (maybe 15) and was obsessed Romero’s trilogy but had really only seen a handful of Italian genre ...

Only a few weeks following his departure from office, action superstar-turned-govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger surprised fans by announcing his plan to return to cinema. His first couple roles are exactly what you’d expect — and for many, what you wanted — ...

Often directors will go an entire career without really carving their niche. However, even among some of the most respected elite, it usually takes a few films for them to begin to develop not only the stylistic but also thematic ...

It is a not-so-little-known fact that exploitation cinema is enamored with Nazis. Why? Perhaps because they represent one of the greatest evils ever known to man. Maybe it is because they represent a real form of darkness, darkness that even the ...

Since their conception, Scream Factory has prided their brand on high quality reissues of cult genre films. Certainly the titles that have generated the most noise—the works of John Carpenter, including the Halloween boxset; Nightbreed: The Directors Cut; Day of the ...

Horror cinephiles and bibliophiles will have extra cause to rejoice this Halloween: The Cutting Room, a literary anthology, is an October treat. The theme of this compilation by editor extraordinaire Ellen Datlow, is laid out in its subtitle: Dark Reflections ...

From his beginnings as a Calgon commercial director to the arguable king of the silver screen zombies, George Romero is an original. This doc chronicles his memories in the making of Night of the Living Dead, his iconic, groundbreaking horror ...

“It’s true, in France, we speak of auteurs, and I think we’re right, to speak of auteurs when talking about John Carpenter; because to me, he’s a real auteur, with a real fascination with evil, in different forms, different faces. ...