If The Wire and Breaking Bad are any indication, the ideal length for a television series is five seasons. The Wire was ambitious and unanimously praised for among other things bringing a complex, nuanced tale to our screens with a remarkable level of execution. It […]
Movies & TV TV ReviewsOhhhh Angus. Why? Michael, why? Why waste your considerable talents on She Rises, a low-budget, high-risk horror flick that had zero chance of success? I’m talking about Angus Macfadyen (Braveheart, TV’s Turn) and Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens, Tombstone), a pair of screen veterans who […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVSpring has sprung, and with it comes a favorite holiday. Can you guess which one I’m talking about? No, not Easter, but it does have to do with grass. Of course, I can only be reefer-ing (see what I did there?) to the much-loved, much-celebrated […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVA relationship breakup is a bad day by anyone’s standards, but for volatile Nick (Danny Miller), it’s more like lighting a fuse on a powder keg. He’s getting the boot so someone else is paying the price. And so begins Cruel Summer, a disturbing little […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVThere is almost certainly nothing more horrible than your own body turning against you. The thought of the familiar becoming unfamiliar is a universal nightmare; the biology you depended on for everyday living turning into the engine of your destruction. The most common name we […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVHaving grown up in south-central Wisconsin, I’ll never forget the day back in 1991 that the news stations plastered images of hazmat-suit clad law enforcement officials removing evidentiary blue plastic barrels and brown paper bags full of body parts from Milwaukee’s Oxford Apartments and the […]
Movies & TV NewsA Taste of Phobia – a feature-length horror anthology showcasing segments by 14 international directors depicting 14 different phobias – is coming to North American screens courtesy of Artsploitation Films. As many of you are aware, Artsploitation Films specializes in distributing the world’s most bizarre, […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVBabies. They’re not for everyone. Sure, they’re cute, but they’re exhausting. Better yet, sometimes their very existence can unleash all kinds of hell upon a naïve new mother. In Siembamba, or The Lullaby written by Tarryn -Tanille Prinsloo and directed by Darrell Roodt, this seems […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVWe here at Ravenous Monster receive and subsequently post our fair share of movie trailers. Like their creators, these trailers come in a wide variety of cinematic shapes and flavors. Most of them are unremarkable. Not bad mind you, but not memorable. Exceptions to this […]
Movies & TV NewsWhat do you get when you put together a pregnant mother and her daughter who are trying to escape an abusive home life, a creepy house (complete with a resident psychotic), horror favorites such as Linnea Quigley and Gary Kent, and werewolves? Why, you get […]
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