Latest Articles
A first Look At Netflix’s “Dracula”
Take a look at Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider’s Web) as Dracula in BBC and Netflix’s upcoming series about the legendary vampire. John Heffernan, Dolly Wells, Joanna Scanlan, Morfydd Clark, and Lujza Richter recently joined the cast that also includes Jonathan Aris, Jonathan Aris, Sacha Dhawan, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Catherine Schell, Youssef Kerkour, Clive Russell, John Heffernan, Dolly Wells, Morfydd Clark, Joanna Scanlan, and Lujza Richter. Jonny Campbell (“Westworld”) is set to direct the premiere episode of “Dracula” written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Set in Transylvania in 1897, the three ninety-minute episode series follows the blood drinking Count as he is drawing his plans against Victorian London. “Dracula” will bare his teeth in late 2019 or early 2020.
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: The Leopard Man (1943)
Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) is losing her audience at the New Mexico club in which she performs to a Latin dancer named Clo-Clo (Margo), so her manager, Jerry (Dennis O’Keefe), gets the shit-hot idea to add a leopard into her act…and seriously, what could go wrong shoving a large, angry cat into a noisy room of half-drunk folks? Naturally, the answer to that is everything, as Kiki’s rival spooks the beast which exits stage left and goes on a maul-spree around the countryside…but there may be more to the killings than appears on the surface. Filled with a nice sense of mounting tension, creepy atmospherics (no surprise with the legendary Val Lewton serving as producer of the film), and even a dash of mystery, The Leopard Man is a damn solid low-budget shocker. O’Keefe makes for a fine square-jawed hero, the supporting players are charismatic and their characters have surprising depth (especially Margo’s Clo-Clo who has aspirations of wealth and
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: Night Killer (1990)
Claudio Fragasso’s Night Killer begins the only way it possibly could; in Virginia Beach…oh, and also with ultra-raunchy music, a herkin’-jerkin’ dance routine, and a flabbergasted dance choreographer who seems to have forgotten 90% of her lines (and who’s death scene seems to be played to the cheap seats located somewhere in Antarctica…and please keep an eye on the dancers who strike a pose as her body hits the floor) there’s also a tit or two, blood, and a killer in a rather awesome monster mask. We are off to a rock solid start here boils n’ ghouls… Cut to suburbia where writer Melanie Beck (Tara Buckman) spends her days eating ham sandwiches, fondling her naked breasts, and over-reacting to phone calls (on a telephone who’s ring sounds like a parakeet swallowed a laser gun) from a dude with the most preposterous voice ever committed to film…as one does. Speaking of phone calls, she soon receives a ringy-dingy from our
Continue reading →
New Clip From Horror Thriller ‘1BR’ Arrives Ahead Of Fantasia Premiere
Ahead of its premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival, a new clip has arrived for David Marmor‘s LA-set horror-thriller 1BR. “After leaving behind a painful past to follow her dreams, Sarah scores the perfect Hollywood apartment. But something is not right. Unable to sleep, tormented by strange noises and threatening notes, her new life quickly starts to unravel. By the time she learns the horrifying truth, it’s too late. Caught in a waking nightmare, Sarah must find the strength to hold onto her crumbling sanity…or be trapped forever in an existential hell.” Horror films don’t come more instantly identifiable than 1BR… Marmor’s smart script and solid cast make 1BR one of Fantasia 2019’s top discoveries. Don’t sleep in this 1BR, but don’t sleep on it, either.” Matthew Kiernan, Fantasia International Film Festival, stated. 1BR is the debut from writer/director David Mamor and is produced by Alok Mishra and Shane Vorster for Malevolent Films, Allard Cantor and Jarrod Murray for Epicenter,
Continue reading →
Barbara Crampton Talks “Into The Dark: Culture Shock” And Issues It Raises About Immigration
Scream Queen Barabra Crampton (You’re Next, Chopping Mall, Re-Animator) and I sat down to discuss her role in “Into the Dark’s” July episode “Culture Shock”. “Culture Shock” follows a young Mexican woman in pursuit of the American Dream, who crosses illegally into the United States, only to find herself in an American nightmare. The episode also stars Martha Higareda (Altered Carbon and No Maches Frida), Richard Cabral (Mayans MC and American Crime), Shawn Ashmore (X-Men), and Creed Bratton (The Office). Horror Fuel: “First let me confess, I love Chopping Mall.” Barbara Crampton: “Oh (laughter)! Oh my god, so many people tell me that. It’s fun, right?” Horror Fuel: “It is. What’s it like to be part of such amazing classics, like Chopping Mall, Re-Animator, From Beyond?” Barbara Crampton: “Well, they’ve only become classics in the past number of years. When we made them, we were just trying to make the best movie possible that we could. You know, some of
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: Robowar (1988)
When an experimental war cyborg named Omega-1 (who’s voice is like a soothing combo of a Speak n’ spell and Mel Tillis) goes completely off it’s tits; a top flight group of military hard-asses named B.A.M. (Bad Ass MotherFuckers…and no; I didn’t make that up) lead by Maj. Murphy Black, also known as Killzone (Reb fucking Brown…Yor himself) is called in to neutralize that murderous machine in the jungle hell it has holed up in…one problem though; the “cyborg” part is on a need to know basis, and the powers that be feel that B.A.M. doesn’t need to know. It soon becomes obvious to our cast of the high school production of Predator that they are not dealing with a rogue guerrilla as they’ve been told and it’ll take every amount of balls and bullets they possess to survive this mission! Filled with more testosterone than a rather large container containing testosterone, billions of bullets and pew-pew lazers, a nifty
Continue reading →
A Retreat Takes A Dark Turn In American Killing – Unleashed This August
This summer a writers retreat takes a very dark turn when its obsessive showrunner manipulates his team into playing along in his disturbed, hidden-camera “masterpiece” in American Killing, set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD this August, from High Octane Pictures. In the film, “Jeb’s cartoon is on the verge of cancellation, so the studio sends him and an eclectic team of writers to a secluded house in the mountains. As Jeb’s controlling personality and obsessive work ethic start to push the team apart, he goes even further by planting spy cameras in places shared and private, obsessed on what everyone is doing. Jeb is soon fired by the studio but he continues to spy in secret from his home leading him further down the road to madness. In his most desperate hour, Jeb seals his fate as a vicious madman by returning to the house and murdering his writers one-by-one, on camera. Past emotions and tensions flare, and while
Continue reading →
The Bloody, Brutal Trailer Has Arrived For The Soska Sisters’ ‘Rabid’
Jen and Sylvia Soska have unleashed the first trailer for their bloody, brutal remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 horror Rabid. Laura Vandervoort (Supergirl) stars as Rose, a woman who wants to become a fashion designer. After an accident leaves her scarred, Rose undergoes a radical, untested treatment that unleashes a vicious contagion. Also known as the “Twisted Twins,” Jen and Sylvia Soska gave horror fans Dead Hooker in a Trunk, 2012’s American Mary, See No Evil 2, and Vendetta, starring Dean Cain and Paul “The Big Show” Wight. Rabid is set to premiere at London’s Frightfest which runs from August 22 through the 26th. The Soska sisters will introduce the film at the screening.
Continue reading →
Movie Review: Dolls (2019)
Ol’ Robert (Thomas Downey) is having a bit of a tough go; he’s a struggling children’s book author who’s mother has bought the farm. Naturally he moves right on into Mommy Dearest’s home along with his ass-pain of a daughter, Sammy (Trinity Simpson). He’s also drunk off his ass a lot of the time, and his wife has left him. This is our hero folks… Anyway, Boob (that is a type-o I simply refuse to fix because this dude is a chump through and through) and Sam soon discover a trio of diabolical dolls that keep moving location around the house seemingly of their own accord. Soon (and by that I mean after a loooong fucking time…see below) the dolls get up to the devil’s business, but will you give a damn when they do? Like fast paced fright flicks where things actually happen? Well “fuck you” says Dolls as most of this film concerns bickering family members treating us
Continue reading →
Music Review: Dante Tomaselli’s Out-of-Body Experience (2019)
Maestro of the macabre, Dante Tomaselli, returns with another full on sensory experience designed to transport your consciousness beyond the veil of reality in the form of his latest CD release; Out of Body Experience. While most known as a diabolical director of nightmare inducing, surrealist fright flicks, Dante can put the terror tickle on the ol’ ivories as well…and the spell he weaves at his sinister synths is every bit as full of arcane ambiance as his monstrous motion pictures. While Tomaselli’s previous releases (Nightmare, The Doll, Scream in the Dark, and Witches respectively), Out of Body Experience has more of a melodic approach and tells a semi-autobiographical story of Tomaselli’s childhood (circa the years 1979 – 1982) in the video game saturated suburbia many of us called home in our youth. Hidden among the various tunes (17 in total) are tones that could easily have come from a vintage arcade cabinet or home console; and the effect this
Continue reading →More latest articles
A first Look At Netflix’s “Dracula”
Take a look at Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider’s Web) as Dracula in BBC and Netflix’s upcoming series about the legendary vampire. John Heffernan, Dolly Wells, Joanna Scanlan, Morfydd Clark, and Lujza Richter recently joined the cast that also includes Jonathan Aris, Jonathan Aris, Sacha Dhawan, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Catherine Schell, Youssef Kerkour, Clive Russell, John Heffernan, Dolly Wells, Morfydd Clark, Joanna Scanlan, and Lujza Richter. Jonny Campbell (“Westworld”) is set to direct the premiere episode of “Dracula” written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Set in Transylvania in 1897, the three ninety-minute episode series follows the blood drinking Count as he is drawing his plans against Victorian London. “Dracula” will bare his teeth in late 2019 or early 2020.
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: The Leopard Man (1943)
Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) is losing her audience at the New Mexico club in which she performs to a Latin dancer named Clo-Clo (Margo), so her manager, Jerry (Dennis O’Keefe), gets the shit-hot idea to add a leopard into her act…and seriously, what could go wrong shoving a large, angry cat into a noisy room of half-drunk folks? Naturally, the answer to that is everything, as Kiki’s rival spooks the beast which exits stage left and goes on a maul-spree around the countryside…but there may be more to the killings than appears on the surface. Filled with a nice sense of mounting tension, creepy atmospherics (no surprise with the legendary Val Lewton serving as producer of the film), and even a dash of mystery, The Leopard Man is a damn solid low-budget shocker. O’Keefe makes for a fine square-jawed hero, the supporting players are charismatic and their characters have surprising depth (especially Margo’s Clo-Clo who has aspirations of wealth and
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: Night Killer (1990)
Claudio Fragasso’s Night Killer begins the only way it possibly could; in Virginia Beach…oh, and also with ultra-raunchy music, a herkin’-jerkin’ dance routine, and a flabbergasted dance choreographer who seems to have forgotten 90% of her lines (and who’s death scene seems to be played to the cheap seats located somewhere in Antarctica…and please keep an eye on the dancers who strike a pose as her body hits the floor) there’s also a tit or two, blood, and a killer in a rather awesome monster mask. We are off to a rock solid start here boils n’ ghouls… Cut to suburbia where writer Melanie Beck (Tara Buckman) spends her days eating ham sandwiches, fondling her naked breasts, and over-reacting to phone calls (on a telephone who’s ring sounds like a parakeet swallowed a laser gun) from a dude with the most preposterous voice ever committed to film…as one does. Speaking of phone calls, she soon receives a ringy-dingy from our
Continue reading →
New Clip From Horror Thriller ‘1BR’ Arrives Ahead Of Fantasia Premiere
Ahead of its premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival, a new clip has arrived for David Marmor‘s LA-set horror-thriller 1BR. “After leaving behind a painful past to follow her dreams, Sarah scores the perfect Hollywood apartment. But something is not right. Unable to sleep, tormented by strange noises and threatening notes, her new life quickly starts to unravel. By the time she learns the horrifying truth, it’s too late. Caught in a waking nightmare, Sarah must find the strength to hold onto her crumbling sanity…or be trapped forever in an existential hell.” Horror films don’t come more instantly identifiable than 1BR… Marmor’s smart script and solid cast make 1BR one of Fantasia 2019’s top discoveries. Don’t sleep in this 1BR, but don’t sleep on it, either.” Matthew Kiernan, Fantasia International Film Festival, stated. 1BR is the debut from writer/director David Mamor and is produced by Alok Mishra and Shane Vorster for Malevolent Films, Allard Cantor and Jarrod Murray for Epicenter,
Continue reading →
Barbara Crampton Talks “Into The Dark: Culture Shock” And Issues It Raises About Immigration
Scream Queen Barabra Crampton (You’re Next, Chopping Mall, Re-Animator) and I sat down to discuss her role in “Into the Dark’s” July episode “Culture Shock”. “Culture Shock” follows a young Mexican woman in pursuit of the American Dream, who crosses illegally into the United States, only to find herself in an American nightmare. The episode also stars Martha Higareda (Altered Carbon and No Maches Frida), Richard Cabral (Mayans MC and American Crime), Shawn Ashmore (X-Men), and Creed Bratton (The Office). Horror Fuel: “First let me confess, I love Chopping Mall.” Barbara Crampton: “Oh (laughter)! Oh my god, so many people tell me that. It’s fun, right?” Horror Fuel: “It is. What’s it like to be part of such amazing classics, like Chopping Mall, Re-Animator, From Beyond?” Barbara Crampton: “Well, they’ve only become classics in the past number of years. When we made them, we were just trying to make the best movie possible that we could. You know, some of
Continue reading →
Blu-ray Review: Robowar (1988)
When an experimental war cyborg named Omega-1 (who’s voice is like a soothing combo of a Speak n’ spell and Mel Tillis) goes completely off it’s tits; a top flight group of military hard-asses named B.A.M. (Bad Ass MotherFuckers…and no; I didn’t make that up) lead by Maj. Murphy Black, also known as Killzone (Reb fucking Brown…Yor himself) is called in to neutralize that murderous machine in the jungle hell it has holed up in…one problem though; the “cyborg” part is on a need to know basis, and the powers that be feel that B.A.M. doesn’t need to know. It soon becomes obvious to our cast of the high school production of Predator that they are not dealing with a rogue guerrilla as they’ve been told and it’ll take every amount of balls and bullets they possess to survive this mission! Filled with more testosterone than a rather large container containing testosterone, billions of bullets and pew-pew lazers, a nifty
Continue reading →
A Retreat Takes A Dark Turn In American Killing – Unleashed This August
This summer a writers retreat takes a very dark turn when its obsessive showrunner manipulates his team into playing along in his disturbed, hidden-camera “masterpiece” in American Killing, set to arrive on Blu-ray and DVD this August, from High Octane Pictures. In the film, “Jeb’s cartoon is on the verge of cancellation, so the studio sends him and an eclectic team of writers to a secluded house in the mountains. As Jeb’s controlling personality and obsessive work ethic start to push the team apart, he goes even further by planting spy cameras in places shared and private, obsessed on what everyone is doing. Jeb is soon fired by the studio but he continues to spy in secret from his home leading him further down the road to madness. In his most desperate hour, Jeb seals his fate as a vicious madman by returning to the house and murdering his writers one-by-one, on camera. Past emotions and tensions flare, and while
Continue reading →
The Bloody, Brutal Trailer Has Arrived For The Soska Sisters’ ‘Rabid’
Jen and Sylvia Soska have unleashed the first trailer for their bloody, brutal remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 horror Rabid. Laura Vandervoort (Supergirl) stars as Rose, a woman who wants to become a fashion designer. After an accident leaves her scarred, Rose undergoes a radical, untested treatment that unleashes a vicious contagion. Also known as the “Twisted Twins,” Jen and Sylvia Soska gave horror fans Dead Hooker in a Trunk, 2012’s American Mary, See No Evil 2, and Vendetta, starring Dean Cain and Paul “The Big Show” Wight. Rabid is set to premiere at London’s Frightfest which runs from August 22 through the 26th. The Soska sisters will introduce the film at the screening.
Continue reading →
Movie Review: Dolls (2019)
Ol’ Robert (Thomas Downey) is having a bit of a tough go; he’s a struggling children’s book author who’s mother has bought the farm. Naturally he moves right on into Mommy Dearest’s home along with his ass-pain of a daughter, Sammy (Trinity Simpson). He’s also drunk off his ass a lot of the time, and his wife has left him. This is our hero folks… Anyway, Boob (that is a type-o I simply refuse to fix because this dude is a chump through and through) and Sam soon discover a trio of diabolical dolls that keep moving location around the house seemingly of their own accord. Soon (and by that I mean after a loooong fucking time…see below) the dolls get up to the devil’s business, but will you give a damn when they do? Like fast paced fright flicks where things actually happen? Well “fuck you” says Dolls as most of this film concerns bickering family members treating us
Continue reading →
Music Review: Dante Tomaselli’s Out-of-Body Experience (2019)
Maestro of the macabre, Dante Tomaselli, returns with another full on sensory experience designed to transport your consciousness beyond the veil of reality in the form of his latest CD release; Out of Body Experience. While most known as a diabolical director of nightmare inducing, surrealist fright flicks, Dante can put the terror tickle on the ol’ ivories as well…and the spell he weaves at his sinister synths is every bit as full of arcane ambiance as his monstrous motion pictures. While Tomaselli’s previous releases (Nightmare, The Doll, Scream in the Dark, and Witches respectively), Out of Body Experience has more of a melodic approach and tells a semi-autobiographical story of Tomaselli’s childhood (circa the years 1979 – 1982) in the video game saturated suburbia many of us called home in our youth. Hidden among the various tunes (17 in total) are tones that could easily have come from a vintage arcade cabinet or home console; and the effect this
Continue reading →