By Honey Morales. The 1970s/ 1980s Campy-style horror is by far my favorite. I find it simultaneously hilarious and terrifying to imagine a group of youngsters lost in the woods with only a few stoned, horny teenagers to protect them from a silent, lumbering monster. To mark the beginning of summer season, I thought it […]
*UPDATED WITH SECOND SET PHOTO* It seems that production is ramping up in the UK for Tim Burtons sequel to his 1988 classic. With original stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara all set to reprise their roles alongside Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) who is reportedly playing the character of Lydia Deetz’s ( Ryders ) […]
To make an Evil Dead Movie the original’s Writer/Director Sam Raimi, has three rules… Innocents must suffer. You have to taste blood to be a hero. The Dead must Rise! With that being said, writer/director Lee Cronin (The Hole In The Ground) over achieves with this latest installment in the franchise. Evil Dead Rise, takes […]
One of the most prized possessions in my quite modest collection of film memorabilia comes from our 2013 Mad Monster screening of the 1973 masterpiece, The Exorcist. It’s a simply designed but beautiful poster featuring a priests cassock sprayed with green paint and it features two autographs… That night at the Chinese Theatre in […]
For those with a passion for blood and gore Renfield more than satisfies. A refreshing take on well known characters with Dracula’s familiar, the titular Renfield taking center stage. Played by Nicolas Hoult, Renfield is a scrawny, twitchy character who spends his days and nights skulking round the streets of New Orleans where he currently […]
With summer right around the corner what better way to open the season than to talk about the summer anthologies of Creepshow. I know what you’re thinking, what do these have to do with summer? Well, they just feel like a hot night in July, you rented a few movies from a local video store […]
Similar to 1408, The Shining connects the dots between psychological terror, originality, and dependency. In both, male authors turn to the shadows. The hotel is a recurring symbol in King’s writing. In his short story 1922, the main character hides out in a hotel room, waiting for a supernatural end to his life. […]
NAME: Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov DOB: AUGUST 1, 1870 DOD: March 20, 1932 ORIGIN: Shchigry, Kursk gubernia, Russia MADNESS: Attempted to create a human/chimp hybrid. After pioneering developments in horse breeding with artificial insemination, Ivanovich began working on cross-genetic experiments. He created a “Zeedonk”; a cross between a Zebra and a Donkey and worked on […]
After one hundred and twenty six years, fascination in Bram Stokers Count Dracula shows no sign of waning. So much so that we are expecting not one but two big screen adventures for the Lord of the undead this year starting with the legendary Nicolas Cage donning the cape, fangs and lots of rings in […]
If The Hills Have Eyes and Cannibal Holocaust were to have a baby in the Wild West, the result might be Bone Tomahawk, a tense and engaging pursuit Western that devolves into a blood bath. The first few minutes of the film feel like a fairly standard Western, despite the horrific opening sequence involving a […]