Shambling onto VOD and DVD this week is Gravitas Ventures’ release of director Mark Newton’s Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies (aka Kudzu Zombies). Winner of the “Goriest Film” award at the 2017 FANtastic Horror Film Festival in San Diego, the flick will also be released in Los Angeles for an exclusive run at Arena CineLounge on […]
In the long line of Stephen King adaptations, few have the prestige and fanfare of 1989’s Pet Sematary. It’s one of those films that works on many levels. It’s a great horror film, offering up the chills and thrills that we all love, but it’s also a wonderful story about family and the difficulties that accompany […]
The nominees for the 2018 Saturn Awards (now in their 44th year) have been announced, and while of course Black Panther and his fellow superheroes lead the fray on both big and small screens, our beloved genre is very well represented in all its various forms… The nominees include “pure” horror and thriller movies and […]
If you’re a fan of cult films, you know that nothing satisfies you more than watching what could be best described at a bad attempt at making something called ‘art’. Well, perhaps that’s a bit harsh. Truth be told, a cult film is really just a movie that takes on a life of its own, […]
We all know the guy who never really left high school. He was the most popular boy in school and he fully intends to hang on to that title for the rest of his life. But what happens when he is forced to realize that the life he’s leading is actually kind of a […]
Forget that recent attempt at a reboot. The original franchise is back. Syfy Wire just announced that next year will see the premiere of Leprechaun Returns, a new installment in the *original* series directed by Steven Kostanski (The Void)! Sadly, Warwick Davis is not returning for the new film, but a teaser that comes […]
In a previous post, I discussed the sad state of mainstream horror. Actually, that was my original intention. However, even writing about the pathetic retreads and overall lack of imagination that has stricken Hollywood left me exhausted. Instead, I picked on Dennis Quaid for a few paragraphs and went to sleep. I'd much rather expend […]
Ghost House Pictures got us excited by attaching Nicolas Pesce, the man behind The Eyes of My Mother, to rewrite and direct the reboot of The Grudge. Andrea Riseborough (“Black Mirror”) is starring (as a detective and young single mother) with Machete Kills, Alien: Covenant, and The Nun‘s Demián Bichir. Now, “The Exorcist’s” John Cho has joined the cast, although character details have not been revealed. […]
Spaulding, Otis and Baby will be returning from the dead in Rob Zombie’s upcoming 3 from Hell, a sequel to The Devil’s Rejects that began filming earlier this week. Zombie is now three days into filming, and he’s dropped some casting news on Instagram. Zombie reports that Austin Stoker, who played Lt. Ethan Bishop in John […]
Blood, mayhem, and plot twists as shocking as its imagination explode across the screen in The Cabin in the Woods (2011), a horror film that manages to be complex and thought-provoking even as it gushes at the seams with gore, pain, and hideous death. Joss Whedon and his colleague director wanted to saturate the horror […]