Danny and Michael Philippou the twin filmmaker brothers, who started their movie career shooting backyard wrestling matches in their native Australia and honing their skills crewing on Jenifer Kents modern horror classic the Babadook from 2014. Have released their first feature film and boy what a debut it is. Having graduated from the school of […]
Welcome foolish mortals! Dare you enter the new Haunted Mansion film directed by Justin Simien ( Bad Hair , Dear White People ). The film based on the fan favorite ride of the same name that originally opened in Disneyland back on August 9th, 1969, in which you go on a walk through / ride […]
Many people deserve to be called the “Godfather of Gore,” but Italian director Lucio Fulci has a stronger case than most. This is a director who, for some reason, can’t film a cliff fall without including extreme close-ups of the victim’s face scraping against the rocks below. A director can’t shoot an eye without wanting […]
One of the most prominent anthology series of the 1980s, “Tales from the Darkside” featured new stories of horror, fantasy, the occult, and science fiction every week. In addition to being scared to death, viewers would always learn an important lesson from each episode. In a decade packed with excellent anthologies, “Tales from the […]
The Boogeyman is an adaptation and elaboration on a Stephen King short story of the same name. Dr Harper, is a beloved psychiatrist and father coping with the recent death of his wife and raising his two daughters. The troubles with the Boogeyman begin when a distraught Lester Billings shows up at Dr. Harper’s home […]
“Oh Norman, you’re mad, don’t you know that? Mad as a hatter.” The Psycho movies, much like with the Amityville Horror films, are often overlooked when it comes to the subject of favorite horror franchises. While not your typical slashers or gore fests, each sequel is thoroughly entertaining in its own charming, demented way. Writer/Director […]
On Saturday May 13th, 2023, I had a chance to see a very special screening of the new documentary by Dead Mouse Productions and Cult Screenings UK LTD, Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares : The Robert Englund Story with Robert doing a Q&A after. Robert Englund is of course known as the nightmare […]
Surely nobody can resist the urge to celebrate Halloween right now. Halfway there, yet it still feels like a long way off. I’ve dug out some classic commercials that are sure to bring back fond memories. There is an infinite number of commercials from the ‘70s, ’80s and ’90s that I could have chosen to […]
April 26th is indeed known as Alien day due to the name of the moon LV426, where the Xenomorphs are first discovered in Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie, Alien. Director Fede Alvarez shared this pic on his Twitter feed this morning. Alvarez is no stranger to revitalizing genre movies. His 2013 Evil Dead was a big […]
In the animal kingdom there are few creatures more feared and respected than the actual “King”, the Lion. It must have been terrifying then, if you were one of several thousand people hired to construct the Uganda Railway in the late 19th Century where two of these apex predators decided humans were delicious. In 1898 […]