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Movie Review: Coven of the Black Cube – Blood Sick Blu-ray
Coven of the Black Cube is about a coven of witches helping unsatisfied wives to murder their husbands… but that doesn’t stop the narrative to stream of consciousness itself into tales of falling in love with a serial killer and the creation of a video rental joint. It’s that kind of scatter-shot unconventional storytelling that makes ol’ Coven of the Black Cube such a uniquely psychotronic viewing experience. Created in our beloved shot on video (S.O.V.) format, the proceedings possess a gritty, almost documentary feel… which makes the entire affair delightfully surreal as we dive head first into a lived-in world that plays host to a large number of occult rites, sex, and bloodshed… but there’s more here than just exploitation thrills n’ spills… Standing front and center here is a queer romance that neither seems forced into the narrative nor is it fodder for titillation (though those elements are present)… it’s handled with heart and is a refreshing change
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Movie Review: Watch Me Sleep (2023) – Wild Eye DVD
Our pal Sean (Darren McAree) has a lot on his plate… he’s a recovering alcoholic who’s abusive mother has just kicked the bucket… though on that last one our hero isn’t quite sure. To that end he signs up for a service that sticks a camera in a loved one’s coffin so family members can grieve longer… usually for a period of four weeks… but Sean is desperate for a longer look-see (by like eleven more months) so he throws money at the problem which ensures that will go down without a hitch. While initially quite gung-fucking-ho over spying on Mommy Deadest, Sean can’t bring himself to log in for the longest, but eventually a confrontational AA meeting gives him the courage to smash that button… and before long mum’s postmortem movement is becoming ever more obvious! Writer/Director John Williams (Creatures of the Night, Crispy’s Curse) delivers a rather skin-crawling premise with Watch Me Sleep… watching a family member decay
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Movie Review: Busted Babies – Blood Sick Blu-ray
Kasper Meltedhair’s Busted Babies is going to be a real bitch and a half to try and explain to you cats n’ creeps, but here fuckin’ goes… “______” (Kasper Meltedhair), is a strange lady possessing horns, polka dot skin, and strap-on bat wings. Our heroine can also turn babies to glass… which is of interest to a dancing gaggle of suited dudes that gain immortality when showered in the broken glass babies… Things get stranger as our non-linear, fever-dream narrative takes us through a world of bizarre folks (creatures?) that inhabit a world of odd punk rock shows, bizarre parties, and absolute brazen insanity. They way this psychotronic whirlwind is presented is as imaginative as it is mind-shatteringly weird. Kasper Meltedhair goes all in on creating a world unto it’s own, filtered through a low-fi, S.O.V. style that at times come across like our favorite drive-in flicks of yore (complete with bands providing padding) mixed with animation, unique yet simple
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Movie Review: Monster Mayhem Collection – Film Masters Blu-ray
Film Masters have gone and bundled up a monstrous mess of Drive-In sci-fi flicks from years past and put them on Blu-ray for all of us lovers of the cinematic bizarre to slap our putrid peepers upon! So let’s begin our joltin’ journey into the Monster Mayhem Collection with the first feature (of which there are four present over two discs), 1958’s Frankenstein’s Daughter… Sleazy suburban mad scientist Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy) is only all too ready to continue the work of his grandfather, Dr. Frankenstein… well, in his spare time anyway… most of the time he works with his colleague, Prof. Carter Morton (Felix Locher) who is working on a formula that could end all disease. Of course ol’ Ollie has other plans for it, and begins slipping doses of it to Morton’s teenage daughter, Trudy (Sandra Knight) which turns her into a monster in a swimsuit that runs amok in the P.M. while continuing to work on his
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Found-Footage Horror ‘No Witnesses’ Drops First Ominous Teaser
If your favorite flavor of cinematic dread involves grainy camera feeds, erratic flashlights, and a lingering suspicion that the Midwest is actively trying to kill you, keep your eyes on the horizon. The eerie new teaser has officially been unveiled for No Witnesses. It’s an upcoming found-footage horror film from indie auteur Joshua Brucker. Co-produced by Gray Sky Pictures and Echo Cell Productions, the film marks Brucker’s seventh feature-length foray into terror under the Horror Dadz Productions banner. The Anatomy of a Disappearance While the creative team is keeping specific plot points strictly classified under lock and key, the baseline setup hits with a classic, unsettling premise. The narrative is designed to document the tense, agonizing days leading up to Hannah Jones’s sudden disappearance. Looking to hit the reset button on her life, Hannah packs her bags and moves to rural Illinois. Instead of finding small-town peace, she is immediately subjected to a series of bizarre, escalating, and deeply terrifying
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Film Editor Brian Philip Davis Takes Inside ‘Hokum’ in Our Interview
When it comes to films, one of the most important jobs behind the camera doesn’t get the credit it deserves. I’m talking about the editors who take a string of shots and images and turn them into the movies we know and love. It’s not an easy job, and it truly makes a film what it is. I was excited when I got the confirmation that I would be sitting down with film editor Brian Philip Davis. The man knows horror. After all, he served as editor for some great films, including the vampire movie Boys from County Hell. And he recently reunited with Oddity filmmaker Damian McCarthy for Hokum, one of the biggest horror films of the year. And if you’ve seen it, you know exactly why I’m so excited about it. If not, you should check out my review in which I called it “creepy AF” and a “must-see.” In Hokum, Adam Scott (Severance) stars as Ohm Bauman,
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Shudder and IFC Snag Alex Goyette’s Barking Mad Debut ‘Breeder’
If you thought the world of competitive dog grooming was cutthroat, wait until you see what happens when the pedigree gets political. Independent Film Company and Shudder have officially teamed up to acquire the distribution rights for Breeder, the highly anticipated debut feature from writer-director Alex Goyette. The blockbuster deal locks down screens across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The film is set to unleash its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival tomorrow, June 6, before heading to theaters this fall. The Ultimate Student Loan Trap The narrative framework of Breeder takes the crushing reality of higher-education debt and drops it directly into a blender with high-concept body horror. The story follows a flat-broke college student who thinks he’s struck gold when an eccentric poodle breeder invites him out to her remote ranch under the guise of an incredibly generous research funding grant. Naturally, because this is a Shudder acquisition, there is a massive, stomach-churning
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Horror saves Summer Game Fest with exciting announcements!
Depending on what you were looking for, Summer Game Fest kind of disappointed this year, with some games people have already heard about and no new excitement… then Horror showed up! SEGA, back on Alien Day (April 26th), had a teaser trailer up that made fans excited for the long-awaited sequel to Alien: Isolation, and today they confirmed and did not disappoint! Alien: Isolation 2 will take players to a remote, storm-ravaged colony world. Players will endure the elements as they navigate the planet’s surface and explore the claustrophobic confines of the Weyland-Yutani outpost of Kurosaki Station. It’s a new hunting ground for the Alien, forcing players to improvise and develop new tools, techniques, and tactics to survive the deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Alien: Isolation 2 will be coming out for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC. As more information comes, you’ll hear it from me! Next up, CAPCOM announced the remake of the fan favorite
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Heads Will Roll: Sydney Sweeney Starring in Reimagining of ‘Sleepy Hollow’
Washington Irving’s iconic 1819 short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, has been adapted more than once. We’ve seen him as an animated schoolteacher, a pale Johnny Depp in 1999, and a time-traveling Tom Mison on FOX. Now, a new take on the classic tale is headed your way, with a little bit of spice. Lindsey Anderson Beer, who we interviewed about Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, has penned a bold, contemporary take on classic folklore in her upcoming novel Hollow. Hollywood is so obsessed with the manuscript that a major movie adaptation is already sprinting out of the gate. Katrina Van Tassel Gets an Upgrade According to Deadline, Sydney Sweeney (The Housemaid, Anyone But You) has signed on to both produce and star in the film. Sweeney will be slipping into the corsets of Katrina Van Tassel. She’s the heroine portrayed by Christina Ricci in Tim Burton’s 1999 film. However, don’t expect Katrina to sit around looking pretty while Ichabod Crane
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Watch Your Step: Survival Horror ‘Pitfall’ Coming to Blu-ray
If you ever needed a reason to skip your next camping trip and stay safely indoors on your couch, this is it. The tense new survival-horror thriller Pitfall is officially out right now on Digital platforms, with a physical release on Blu-ray and DVD scheduled for July 20th. The film takes the classic “lost in the woods” trope and immediately plunges it into a highly creative, bone-shattering nightmare. A Vacation That Threatens to Tear Apart at the Seams The premise of Pitfall starts simply enough. A young man gets separated from his friends during a trek through a dense, unforgiving forest. However, he falls directly into a trap. The impact is brutal, impaling him cleanly through the leg and leaving him completely trapped. As he deals with the agonizing pain, the gravity of his situation sinks in: he quickly learns that this trap was not an accident. What follows is an intense battle of wits and endurance. While the movie
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Movie Review: Coven of the Black Cube – Blood Sick Blu-ray
Coven of the Black Cube is about a coven of witches helping unsatisfied wives to murder their husbands… but that doesn’t stop the narrative to stream of consciousness itself into tales of falling in love with a serial killer and the creation of a video rental joint. It’s that kind of scatter-shot unconventional storytelling that makes ol’ Coven of the Black Cube such a uniquely psychotronic viewing experience. Created in our beloved shot on video (S.O.V.) format, the proceedings possess a gritty, almost documentary feel… which makes the entire affair delightfully surreal as we dive head first into a lived-in world that plays host to a large number of occult rites, sex, and bloodshed… but there’s more here than just exploitation thrills n’ spills… Standing front and center here is a queer romance that neither seems forced into the narrative nor is it fodder for titillation (though those elements are present)… it’s handled with heart and is a refreshing change
Continue reading →
Movie Review: Watch Me Sleep (2023) – Wild Eye DVD
Our pal Sean (Darren McAree) has a lot on his plate… he’s a recovering alcoholic who’s abusive mother has just kicked the bucket… though on that last one our hero isn’t quite sure. To that end he signs up for a service that sticks a camera in a loved one’s coffin so family members can grieve longer… usually for a period of four weeks… but Sean is desperate for a longer look-see (by like eleven more months) so he throws money at the problem which ensures that will go down without a hitch. While initially quite gung-fucking-ho over spying on Mommy Deadest, Sean can’t bring himself to log in for the longest, but eventually a confrontational AA meeting gives him the courage to smash that button… and before long mum’s postmortem movement is becoming ever more obvious! Writer/Director John Williams (Creatures of the Night, Crispy’s Curse) delivers a rather skin-crawling premise with Watch Me Sleep… watching a family member decay
Continue reading →
Movie Review: Busted Babies – Blood Sick Blu-ray
Kasper Meltedhair’s Busted Babies is going to be a real bitch and a half to try and explain to you cats n’ creeps, but here fuckin’ goes… “______” (Kasper Meltedhair), is a strange lady possessing horns, polka dot skin, and strap-on bat wings. Our heroine can also turn babies to glass… which is of interest to a dancing gaggle of suited dudes that gain immortality when showered in the broken glass babies… Things get stranger as our non-linear, fever-dream narrative takes us through a world of bizarre folks (creatures?) that inhabit a world of odd punk rock shows, bizarre parties, and absolute brazen insanity. They way this psychotronic whirlwind is presented is as imaginative as it is mind-shatteringly weird. Kasper Meltedhair goes all in on creating a world unto it’s own, filtered through a low-fi, S.O.V. style that at times come across like our favorite drive-in flicks of yore (complete with bands providing padding) mixed with animation, unique yet simple
Continue reading →
Movie Review: Monster Mayhem Collection – Film Masters Blu-ray
Film Masters have gone and bundled up a monstrous mess of Drive-In sci-fi flicks from years past and put them on Blu-ray for all of us lovers of the cinematic bizarre to slap our putrid peepers upon! So let’s begin our joltin’ journey into the Monster Mayhem Collection with the first feature (of which there are four present over two discs), 1958’s Frankenstein’s Daughter… Sleazy suburban mad scientist Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy) is only all too ready to continue the work of his grandfather, Dr. Frankenstein… well, in his spare time anyway… most of the time he works with his colleague, Prof. Carter Morton (Felix Locher) who is working on a formula that could end all disease. Of course ol’ Ollie has other plans for it, and begins slipping doses of it to Morton’s teenage daughter, Trudy (Sandra Knight) which turns her into a monster in a swimsuit that runs amok in the P.M. while continuing to work on his
Continue reading →
Found-Footage Horror ‘No Witnesses’ Drops First Ominous Teaser
If your favorite flavor of cinematic dread involves grainy camera feeds, erratic flashlights, and a lingering suspicion that the Midwest is actively trying to kill you, keep your eyes on the horizon. The eerie new teaser has officially been unveiled for No Witnesses. It’s an upcoming found-footage horror film from indie auteur Joshua Brucker. Co-produced by Gray Sky Pictures and Echo Cell Productions, the film marks Brucker’s seventh feature-length foray into terror under the Horror Dadz Productions banner. The Anatomy of a Disappearance While the creative team is keeping specific plot points strictly classified under lock and key, the baseline setup hits with a classic, unsettling premise. The narrative is designed to document the tense, agonizing days leading up to Hannah Jones’s sudden disappearance. Looking to hit the reset button on her life, Hannah packs her bags and moves to rural Illinois. Instead of finding small-town peace, she is immediately subjected to a series of bizarre, escalating, and deeply terrifying
Continue reading →
Film Editor Brian Philip Davis Takes Inside ‘Hokum’ in Our Interview
When it comes to films, one of the most important jobs behind the camera doesn’t get the credit it deserves. I’m talking about the editors who take a string of shots and images and turn them into the movies we know and love. It’s not an easy job, and it truly makes a film what it is. I was excited when I got the confirmation that I would be sitting down with film editor Brian Philip Davis. The man knows horror. After all, he served as editor for some great films, including the vampire movie Boys from County Hell. And he recently reunited with Oddity filmmaker Damian McCarthy for Hokum, one of the biggest horror films of the year. And if you’ve seen it, you know exactly why I’m so excited about it. If not, you should check out my review in which I called it “creepy AF” and a “must-see.” In Hokum, Adam Scott (Severance) stars as Ohm Bauman,
Continue reading →
Shudder and IFC Snag Alex Goyette’s Barking Mad Debut ‘Breeder’
If you thought the world of competitive dog grooming was cutthroat, wait until you see what happens when the pedigree gets political. Independent Film Company and Shudder have officially teamed up to acquire the distribution rights for Breeder, the highly anticipated debut feature from writer-director Alex Goyette. The blockbuster deal locks down screens across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The film is set to unleash its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival tomorrow, June 6, before heading to theaters this fall. The Ultimate Student Loan Trap The narrative framework of Breeder takes the crushing reality of higher-education debt and drops it directly into a blender with high-concept body horror. The story follows a flat-broke college student who thinks he’s struck gold when an eccentric poodle breeder invites him out to her remote ranch under the guise of an incredibly generous research funding grant. Naturally, because this is a Shudder acquisition, there is a massive, stomach-churning
Continue reading →
Horror saves Summer Game Fest with exciting announcements!
Depending on what you were looking for, Summer Game Fest kind of disappointed this year, with some games people have already heard about and no new excitement… then Horror showed up! SEGA, back on Alien Day (April 26th), had a teaser trailer up that made fans excited for the long-awaited sequel to Alien: Isolation, and today they confirmed and did not disappoint! Alien: Isolation 2 will take players to a remote, storm-ravaged colony world. Players will endure the elements as they navigate the planet’s surface and explore the claustrophobic confines of the Weyland-Yutani outpost of Kurosaki Station. It’s a new hunting ground for the Alien, forcing players to improvise and develop new tools, techniques, and tactics to survive the deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Alien: Isolation 2 will be coming out for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC. As more information comes, you’ll hear it from me! Next up, CAPCOM announced the remake of the fan favorite
Continue reading →
Heads Will Roll: Sydney Sweeney Starring in Reimagining of ‘Sleepy Hollow’
Washington Irving’s iconic 1819 short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, has been adapted more than once. We’ve seen him as an animated schoolteacher, a pale Johnny Depp in 1999, and a time-traveling Tom Mison on FOX. Now, a new take on the classic tale is headed your way, with a little bit of spice. Lindsey Anderson Beer, who we interviewed about Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, has penned a bold, contemporary take on classic folklore in her upcoming novel Hollow. Hollywood is so obsessed with the manuscript that a major movie adaptation is already sprinting out of the gate. Katrina Van Tassel Gets an Upgrade According to Deadline, Sydney Sweeney (The Housemaid, Anyone But You) has signed on to both produce and star in the film. Sweeney will be slipping into the corsets of Katrina Van Tassel. She’s the heroine portrayed by Christina Ricci in Tim Burton’s 1999 film. However, don’t expect Katrina to sit around looking pretty while Ichabod Crane
Continue reading →
Watch Your Step: Survival Horror ‘Pitfall’ Coming to Blu-ray
If you ever needed a reason to skip your next camping trip and stay safely indoors on your couch, this is it. The tense new survival-horror thriller Pitfall is officially out right now on Digital platforms, with a physical release on Blu-ray and DVD scheduled for July 20th. The film takes the classic “lost in the woods” trope and immediately plunges it into a highly creative, bone-shattering nightmare. A Vacation That Threatens to Tear Apart at the Seams The premise of Pitfall starts simply enough. A young man gets separated from his friends during a trek through a dense, unforgiving forest. However, he falls directly into a trap. The impact is brutal, impaling him cleanly through the leg and leaving him completely trapped. As he deals with the agonizing pain, the gravity of his situation sinks in: he quickly learns that this trap was not an accident. What follows is an intense battle of wits and endurance. While the movie
Continue reading →