The Fear of the Unknown and Why Meeting Strangers Powers So Many Horror Films
Strangers scare us. Not in every situation, not every day — but at a deep, cellular level, the unfamiliar human face triggers something ancient and Continue Reading
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GG Allin Is Getting a Biopic and Caleb Landry Jones Will Never Be the Same
As long-time readers will know, GG Allin has been featured a fair few times on these very pages over the years. Hated was reviewed first Continue Reading
How Modern Horror Films Reflect Our Growing Privacy Fears
Horror used to live in dark forests, creaky basements, and abandoned asylums. Now it lives in your phone. Your router. The little black dot on Continue Reading
Severin Resurrects Graham Masterton’s ‘The Manitou’ in 4K UHD
One of my ultimate guilty pleasure flicks from the wild, wild ‘70s has always been The Manitou. Based on the debut novel of the wonderful Continue Reading
Forget RoboCop — Hobocop Is the Law Now
Sean Donohue, one of the fellas behind the infamous Death-Scort Service flicks plus such tittie revealing delights like Die Die Delta PI and Naked Cannibal Continue Reading
He’s Still Out There: ‘A Man in the Woods with an Axe’ Keeps the 80s Slasher Spirit Alive
A new love letter to the golden era horror — of masked or hideous fellas hanging out in the woods killing folks like Madman and Continue Reading
XXX Marks the Corpse: ‘Blowie’ Arrives Fully Inflated
Horror, exploitation, sexploitation, porno, porno holocaust, all this and more could be used to describe Blowie — a new movie from Dark Star Pictures involving Continue Reading
Black Lava Entertainment Heats Up: Chaos, Tragedy Girls, and More Releases Lurking in the Dark
It’s going to be quite busy soon in the dark world of Black Lava Entertainment as a fair few pre-orders and current releases are currently Continue Reading
Unearthed Films Revives Cradle of Fear, Legion of the Dead, and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man this Summer
This summer, Cradle of Fear, a wild mainly forgotten UK made anthology is getting a polish up by Unearthed Films with a 2-Disc Collector’s Edition Continue Reading
The Hidden Gem of ’90s Horror: The Ugly Returns on Blu-ray from Unearthed Films
When folks mention slept on classics, The Ugly should be whispered in that conversation. New Zealand’s Scott Reynolds formulated and built one of the most Continue Reading