Horror Fuel
☰ Browse the Crypt
Author

DanXIII

1,300 stories
Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985)

2019: After the Fall of New York‘s Michael Sopkiw stars as Kevin Hall, a dude that loves playing with his bone… or more accurately, bones; and of the dinosaur variety at that! This mother fucker of a paleontologist hauls those shits around in a wood box he drags behind him like a “modern day” (well as of 35 years ago anyway) Django! So this Kev cat hitches a ride on a plane headed down to the Amazon (after a barfight so ridiculous it would be right at home in a Looney Tunes short… sound effects and all), along with a motley crew that includes, but is in no way limited to: an egghead professor (Leonidas Bayer) and his comely daughter (Suzane Carvalho), a couple of fashion models (the breathtaking Maria Reis and Susan Hahn), a crazed Vietnam Vet (Milton Rodríguez) and his high maintenance nag of a wife (Marta Anderson)… a real Gilligan’s Island type of sitch, but imagine the

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 23, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Spiral (2019)

Things aren’t exactly salad and cream (that’s a thing that’s good, right?) for Malik (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) and his partner Aaron (Ari Cohen) who move to the ultra-suburbs with A-dawgs teenage daughter Kayla (Jennifer Laporte). Being the 1990’s and all, the townsfolk are not exactly hip to the same-sex couple bag, though they hide it well… but not well enough to keep Malik from slip sliding away into paranoid delusions… or are they? Yeah, this one is a bit of the ol’ mind fuck cats n’ creeps! Director Kurtis David Harder and screenwriters Colin Minihan and John Poliquin have created one hell of a potent combo of social commentary and full-on horror biz. Firstly, our protagonists are so likable that we just know things are going to go tits up for them in the worst possible way, and boy howdy do they fucking ever! Cohen and Chapman make for a believable couple, and no matter how much we want hings to

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 19, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Attack of the Unknown (2020)

Vernon (Richard Grieco) and his top-shelf SWAT crew have managed to bust big bad Miguel ‘Hades’ Aguirre (Robert LaSardo)… but lotsa luck gettin’ his beastly buttocks to the hoosegow, as that task is going to be a wee bit of a royal ass-pain ‘cuz blood-crazed aliens have chosen this day to launch an invasion of Earth! Soon our heroes find themselves playin’ interstellar Assault on Precinct 13 as they plant their asses in a county jail, and while the main impetus may be “Operation: Save Ass”, the fate of the planet may very well be decided this night! Coming from Michael and Sonny Mahal’s Mahal Empire (who’s flicks Party Bus to Hell and Art of the Dead I gave revoltin’ reviews to here and here), Attack of the Unknown succeeds on a number of levels, chief among them the performances on display. Grieco, no stranger to tough as balls hero roles, makes Vernon a strong protagonist you can easily root

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension Short Film Review: The Song of Her (2019)

In a dystopian, or is that draconian… hell let’s just say it’s both… anyway, in a dystopian/draconian era, Flora (Yelena Ferrer) spends her time playing organ in a titanic, seemingly abandoned church… well that, and hooking Chi (Sui Nakashima) up to a scanner cum torture device called Goda, and grilling her for info, as well as playing armchair therapist to her victim. Naturally the two fall in love, much to the chagrin of Flora’s superior, General Stewart Bailey (Ravin Patterson) who maims Flora with the ol’ cigarette to the putrid peeper bag! Anyway, things come to a head, and soon the two find themselves at the mercy of Satanic mother fucker Lord Goody (Bruce Hermann), but is all hope really lost? The Song of Her is one delicious slice of sinister short film (this picture runs about 21 minutes) perfection! Coming off as a bit like a “What if Bram Stoker wrote 1984?” affair, this flick is a deft blend

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 16, 2020
Advertisement
Horror Fuel

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension Review: Flesh City (2019)

Before I kick of this revoltin’ review, let me state that if you are negatively effected by rapid strobing light and images, you may want to avoid this film. The basics of Flesh City goes as follows: Vyren (Christian Serritiello) meets Loquette (Eva Ferox) in a Berlin industrial nightclub, get a dude named Cyril (Shaun Lawton) right pissed over a video game, then decide it would be a shit hot idea to explore the club’s basement. Is that what kids are into these days? Weirdos… Speaking of weird, there is some sort of magic crystal down there that can open a gate… oh and our heroes are menaced by Prof. Yagov (Arthur Patching) and his fuckin’ robot. Vyren takes a powder from all this lunacy, but there is no way he’s gettin’ out of this nuthouse intact; to wit. he’s beginning to mutate, and if Yagov has his way, the entire city will follow suit! As you may have guessed,

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 15, 2020
Horror Fuel

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension Review: Troma’s Mutant Blast (2018)

Para-military bad-ass Maria (Maria Leite) frees science experiment TS-347 (Joaquim Guerreiro); a man with superhuman strength…and as a result an entire military complex and their zombies (though that word is taboo in this pic my creeps!) are after their asses but good! Enter: Pedro (Pedro Barão Dias), a real party animal cum ambition deficient dude that is ill prepared for the apocalypse of shambling dead he’s about to find himself balls deep in. Thankfully he has ol’ M-dawg to pull his fat out of the fuckin’ fire! Anyway, our heroes attempt to survive an onslaught of monsters as they journey to a safe haven…which is only complicated by the introduction of a nuclear bomb into the manic mix…not to mention those pesky mutations! Now this is what I’m talking about boils n’ ghouls! Mutant Blast takes the dog-tired “zombie apocalypse” formula and gives it a swift kick in the balls…and the resulting vomit and ejaculate makes for one hell of

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension’s Sinister Short Film Selection!

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension, the first-ever online film festival to be presented entirely through the Zoom app (and which our own Joseph Perry brought to your attention right here), is comin’ your way next Thursday, September 24th (though a free preview with trailers & talk is going down this Saturday, the 19th, at 5 pm PT right here) and ol’ your’s cruelly had a chance to slap his putrid peepers on a selection of sinister short films that are sure to melt faces and make the crotch of your trousers just a tad tighter (or wetter depending… look this is a collection of revoltin’ reviews, not a fuckin’ sex ed class… hell, I have no class whatsoever… )! *NOTE: click on the fest’s name up yonder to check play dates for the following shorts! Let’s say we kick things off with Lost Treasure of the Valley ! Lost Treasure of the Valley takes place in a retro-futuristic San Fernando Valley,

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Fear Pharm (2020)

Hershel (John Littlefield) offers a gaggle of teens a fabulous cash prize if they make it through his lil’ ol’ corn maze in two hours time. Seems like easy money… except Hershel is a psycho killer qu’est-ce que c’est, and so are his hulking brutish sons and freak-ass daughter (Aimee Stolte), and as you lot well and truly know; the family that slays together stays together… and those teens are number one on their “must kill” list! Thankfully for this fright flick, those teens; Brandon (Houston Stevenson), Wendy (Emily Sweet), Rustin (Chris Leary), and Melanie (Tiana Tuttle) by name, are a damn personable crowd, so we actually give a fuck or two whether they make it through the ordeal with all of their various pieces intact. Also of note is the excellent mounting tension this flick provides. Things move at a brisk pace, and the stalk n’ slay games keep you on the edge of your seat, and that sprawling

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

Where Sweet Dreams Die Coming in 2021 From Ave Fenix Pictures Studios!

Hey cats n’ creeps; your’s cruelly just got the supernatural skinny on a new fright flick headin’ our way in 2021 called Where Sweet Dreams Die! Read on to learn more… “Zachary Laoutides (Black Ruby), Jaime Zevallos (Marvel: Cloak & Dagger) and British actor-recording artist Alexander James Rodriguez (Missing Link) have signed on to the thriller film ‘Where Sweet Dreams Die’ from Latinx film studios, Ave Fenix Pictures Studios. Directed by Mirza Esho, ‘Where Sweet Dreams Die’, follows an Italian American who is on the verge of losing his restaurant and wife to cancer. He becomes obsessed with a Middle Eastern immigrant on the path to achieve the American Dream and take over his restaurant. Ave Fenix Pictures Studios is co-founded by award-winning Mexican actress-producer Monica Esmeralda Leon, whose mission is to create films with a diverse-driven cast and crew. With COVID-19 protocols in place, ‘Where Sweet Dreams Die’ will begin filming this November in Chicago and New York. The

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 12, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Death of a Vlogger (2019)

YouTube vlogger Graham (Graham Hughes, who also wrote and directed this putrid picture) is having a bit of a slump, as his ha-ha vids are pretty much tits up as far as his viewership is concerned. Lucky for him, he captures one of those paranormal events that are all the rage with blonde women between the ages of 23 and 47, and broadcasts it for all of the world to see! Graham continues to record his eerie existence, but while most vicious viewers eat this supernatural shit up with a sinister spoon, there are those that find Graham’s new material a lil’ bit hard to swallow and set off to prove that this new arcane approach is a load of bollox! Comprised of a heady blend of found footage and faux documentary, Death of a Vlogger presents the full spectrum of paranormal activity, to those that desire to debunk said events… and all points in-between, in a fantastically immersive bit

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 10, 2020

More from DanXIII

Horror Fuel

Blu-ray Review: Massacre in Dinosaur Valley (1985)

2019: After the Fall of New York‘s Michael Sopkiw stars as Kevin Hall, a dude that loves playing with his bone… or more accurately, bones; and of the dinosaur variety at that! This mother fucker of a paleontologist hauls those shits around in a wood box he drags behind him like a “modern day” (well as of 35 years ago anyway) Django! So this Kev cat hitches a ride on a plane headed down to the Amazon (after a barfight so ridiculous it would be right at home in a Looney Tunes short… sound effects and all), along with a motley crew that includes, but is in no way limited to: an egghead professor (Leonidas Bayer) and his comely daughter (Suzane Carvalho), a couple of fashion models (the breathtaking Maria Reis and Susan Hahn), a crazed Vietnam Vet (Milton Rodríguez) and his high maintenance nag of a wife (Marta Anderson)… a real Gilligan’s Island type of sitch, but imagine the

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 23, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Spiral (2019)

Things aren’t exactly salad and cream (that’s a thing that’s good, right?) for Malik (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) and his partner Aaron (Ari Cohen) who move to the ultra-suburbs with A-dawgs teenage daughter Kayla (Jennifer Laporte). Being the 1990’s and all, the townsfolk are not exactly hip to the same-sex couple bag, though they hide it well… but not well enough to keep Malik from slip sliding away into paranoid delusions… or are they? Yeah, this one is a bit of the ol’ mind fuck cats n’ creeps! Director Kurtis David Harder and screenwriters Colin Minihan and John Poliquin have created one hell of a potent combo of social commentary and full-on horror biz. Firstly, our protagonists are so likable that we just know things are going to go tits up for them in the worst possible way, and boy howdy do they fucking ever! Cohen and Chapman make for a believable couple, and no matter how much we want hings to

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 19, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Attack of the Unknown (2020)

Vernon (Richard Grieco) and his top-shelf SWAT crew have managed to bust big bad Miguel ‘Hades’ Aguirre (Robert LaSardo)… but lotsa luck gettin’ his beastly buttocks to the hoosegow, as that task is going to be a wee bit of a royal ass-pain ‘cuz blood-crazed aliens have chosen this day to launch an invasion of Earth! Soon our heroes find themselves playin’ interstellar Assault on Precinct 13 as they plant their asses in a county jail, and while the main impetus may be “Operation: Save Ass”, the fate of the planet may very well be decided this night! Coming from Michael and Sonny Mahal’s Mahal Empire (who’s flicks Party Bus to Hell and Art of the Dead I gave revoltin’ reviews to here and here), Attack of the Unknown succeeds on a number of levels, chief among them the performances on display. Grieco, no stranger to tough as balls hero roles, makes Vernon a strong protagonist you can easily root

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 18, 2020
Horror Fuel

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension Short Film Review: The Song of Her (2019)

In a dystopian, or is that draconian… hell let’s just say it’s both… anyway, in a dystopian/draconian era, Flora (Yelena Ferrer) spends her time playing organ in a titanic, seemingly abandoned church… well that, and hooking Chi (Sui Nakashima) up to a scanner cum torture device called Goda, and grilling her for info, as well as playing armchair therapist to her victim. Naturally the two fall in love, much to the chagrin of Flora’s superior, General Stewart Bailey (Ravin Patterson) who maims Flora with the ol’ cigarette to the putrid peeper bag! Anyway, things come to a head, and soon the two find themselves at the mercy of Satanic mother fucker Lord Goody (Bruce Hermann), but is all hope really lost? The Song of Her is one delicious slice of sinister short film (this picture runs about 21 minutes) perfection! Coming off as a bit like a “What if Bram Stoker wrote 1984?” affair, this flick is a deft blend

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 16, 2020
Horror Fuel

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension Review: Flesh City (2019)

Before I kick of this revoltin’ review, let me state that if you are negatively effected by rapid strobing light and images, you may want to avoid this film. The basics of Flesh City goes as follows: Vyren (Christian Serritiello) meets Loquette (Eva Ferox) in a Berlin industrial nightclub, get a dude named Cyril (Shaun Lawton) right pissed over a video game, then decide it would be a shit hot idea to explore the club’s basement. Is that what kids are into these days? Weirdos… Speaking of weird, there is some sort of magic crystal down there that can open a gate… oh and our heroes are menaced by Prof. Yagov (Arthur Patching) and his fuckin’ robot. Vyren takes a powder from all this lunacy, but there is no way he’s gettin’ out of this nuthouse intact; to wit. he’s beginning to mutate, and if Yagov has his way, the entire city will follow suit! As you may have guessed,

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 15, 2020
Horror Fuel

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension Review: Troma’s Mutant Blast (2018)

Para-military bad-ass Maria (Maria Leite) frees science experiment TS-347 (Joaquim Guerreiro); a man with superhuman strength…and as a result an entire military complex and their zombies (though that word is taboo in this pic my creeps!) are after their asses but good! Enter: Pedro (Pedro Barão Dias), a real party animal cum ambition deficient dude that is ill prepared for the apocalypse of shambling dead he’s about to find himself balls deep in. Thankfully he has ol’ M-dawg to pull his fat out of the fuckin’ fire! Anyway, our heroes attempt to survive an onslaught of monsters as they journey to a safe haven…which is only complicated by the introduction of a nuclear bomb into the manic mix…not to mention those pesky mutations! Now this is what I’m talking about boils n’ ghouls! Mutant Blast takes the dog-tired “zombie apocalypse” formula and gives it a swift kick in the balls…and the resulting vomit and ejaculate makes for one hell of

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension’s Sinister Short Film Selection!

Mr. HoleHead’s Warped Dimension, the first-ever online film festival to be presented entirely through the Zoom app (and which our own Joseph Perry brought to your attention right here), is comin’ your way next Thursday, September 24th (though a free preview with trailers & talk is going down this Saturday, the 19th, at 5 pm PT right here) and ol’ your’s cruelly had a chance to slap his putrid peepers on a selection of sinister short films that are sure to melt faces and make the crotch of your trousers just a tad tighter (or wetter depending… look this is a collection of revoltin’ reviews, not a fuckin’ sex ed class… hell, I have no class whatsoever… )! *NOTE: click on the fest’s name up yonder to check play dates for the following shorts! Let’s say we kick things off with Lost Treasure of the Valley ! Lost Treasure of the Valley takes place in a retro-futuristic San Fernando Valley,

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Fear Pharm (2020)

Hershel (John Littlefield) offers a gaggle of teens a fabulous cash prize if they make it through his lil’ ol’ corn maze in two hours time. Seems like easy money… except Hershel is a psycho killer qu’est-ce que c’est, and so are his hulking brutish sons and freak-ass daughter (Aimee Stolte), and as you lot well and truly know; the family that slays together stays together… and those teens are number one on their “must kill” list! Thankfully for this fright flick, those teens; Brandon (Houston Stevenson), Wendy (Emily Sweet), Rustin (Chris Leary), and Melanie (Tiana Tuttle) by name, are a damn personable crowd, so we actually give a fuck or two whether they make it through the ordeal with all of their various pieces intact. Also of note is the excellent mounting tension this flick provides. Things move at a brisk pace, and the stalk n’ slay games keep you on the edge of your seat, and that sprawling

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 14, 2020
Horror Fuel

Where Sweet Dreams Die Coming in 2021 From Ave Fenix Pictures Studios!

Hey cats n’ creeps; your’s cruelly just got the supernatural skinny on a new fright flick headin’ our way in 2021 called Where Sweet Dreams Die! Read on to learn more… “Zachary Laoutides (Black Ruby), Jaime Zevallos (Marvel: Cloak & Dagger) and British actor-recording artist Alexander James Rodriguez (Missing Link) have signed on to the thriller film ‘Where Sweet Dreams Die’ from Latinx film studios, Ave Fenix Pictures Studios. Directed by Mirza Esho, ‘Where Sweet Dreams Die’, follows an Italian American who is on the verge of losing his restaurant and wife to cancer. He becomes obsessed with a Middle Eastern immigrant on the path to achieve the American Dream and take over his restaurant. Ave Fenix Pictures Studios is co-founded by award-winning Mexican actress-producer Monica Esmeralda Leon, whose mission is to create films with a diverse-driven cast and crew. With COVID-19 protocols in place, ‘Where Sweet Dreams Die’ will begin filming this November in Chicago and New York. The

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 12, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Death of a Vlogger (2019)

YouTube vlogger Graham (Graham Hughes, who also wrote and directed this putrid picture) is having a bit of a slump, as his ha-ha vids are pretty much tits up as far as his viewership is concerned. Lucky for him, he captures one of those paranormal events that are all the rage with blonde women between the ages of 23 and 47, and broadcasts it for all of the world to see! Graham continues to record his eerie existence, but while most vicious viewers eat this supernatural shit up with a sinister spoon, there are those that find Graham’s new material a lil’ bit hard to swallow and set off to prove that this new arcane approach is a load of bollox! Comprised of a heady blend of found footage and faux documentary, Death of a Vlogger presents the full spectrum of paranormal activity, to those that desire to debunk said events… and all points in-between, in a fantastically immersive bit

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Sep 10, 2020
Next →