From King Lear to King Fear: the Robert Englund interview

In the 1980’s, wedged between anti-heroes like Jack Nicholson’s “Jack Torrance” of THE SHINING and Anthony Hopkins’ “Hannibal Lecter” of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, there emerged a trend of movie monsters and bad guys crafted to be celebrated by an audience that would normally be booing them. An innovator in this formula, and the […]

Mom N’ Pop Video Store Documentary comes to Mad Monster Expo

I’m thrilled to announce that the documentary Mom N’ Pop: The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s will be screening at this year’s Mad Monster Expo! Mom N’ Pop features interviews from the likes of Lloyd Kaufman, Damien Maffei, Brad Sykes, Henrique Couto, Donald Farmer, Tim Ritter, James Rolfe, and many more including video […]

Tom Devlin Interview

The foundation of the sci-fi and horror genres are built on the innovative and hard work of special makeup effects artists. Of the many who practice this art, a small number use their abilities to make the fantastic a reality, and apply it into their own visions in the form of feature films. Even rarer […]

Dan Brereton Interview

Dan Brereton has been working as illustrator and Monster storyteller for more than 30 years. His client resume list ranges from Rock stars like Rob Zombie to DC COMICS. His unique art style of horror and adventure images stir the imagination with dark shadows crawling with crimson monsters, and women that are beautiful and equally […]

Leatherface Ranks The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Franchise

Mad Monster caught up with Leatherface himself, R.A. Mihailoff.  R.A. portrayed Leatherface in Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.  I took the opportunity to discuss with him his thoughts on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise and how he would rank the movies. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise consists of eight films. The first film was released […]