Director Emiliano Rocha Minter’s feature debut We Are the Flesh is set for a limited theatrical run beginning January 2017. The Spanish-language post-apocalyptic fantasy is like a dirty secret. It did well on the festival circuit winning several prizes over the past year. It boasts […]
NewsAMC’s resounding smash hit has had several buzz-worthy moments through the years, but perhaps none more so than the cliffhanger of its sixth season. With Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the rest of our survivors lined up on their knees and confronted by the barbwire-wrapped baseball […]
Movies & TV TV ReviewsAsh vs Evil Dead—this reviewer’s inner-12-year-old’s dream show—is an oddity. It’s most certainly light on plot and it panders with the lowest-hanging fruit that it can, but it’s also great fun, and it’s the true, direct descendent of the movies that we loved as kids. […]
Movies & TV TV ReviewsWriter/director Chip Gubera’s festival freakout Slasher.com has landed a distribution deal which will bring it into your homes in 2017. Racking up awards and boasting names such as R.A. Mihailoff (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Hatchet II) and Jewel Shepard (Return of the Living Dead), […]
NewsStaci Layne Wilson is a prolific critic, writer and, more and more frequently, a filmmaker. She’s covered everything from music and culture to blood and guts and while her topics and films are eclectic, her style is consistently smart and self-assured. Fetish Factory—both written and […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVHo, ho, ho, Horror Fans! Wild Eye Releasing is set to slide down your chimney like a blade through supple flesh next week with Secret Santa—filmmaker Mike McMurran’s foray into full-length lunacy. We’re gifting you the killer trailer early. Read the full press release and […]
NewsCrazed is director Kevin A. McCarthy‘s contribution to the large canon of renegade cop films. While the genre hit its heyday nearly thirty years ago, the idea of an officer of the law gone rogue still fascinates as much as it always has. Has Crazed […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVThose fiends who have been followers of Ravenous Monster for a while now may recall my review of the book The Lazarus Gate by Mark Latham. Said book was an interesting Victorian science fiction tale of alternate worlds that had a sizable dose of horror […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsThere aren’t many movies that I so affectionately go back to over and over and over again. Of course, 1968’s Night of the Living Dead is most definitely one of those flicks. As if George A. Romero’s zombie masterpiece weren’t great enough, now there’s a […]
Music & Events Music ReviewsThe Shelter is veteran indie filmmaker John Fallon’s feature directorial debut and as such it’s a conceptually ambitious, yet logistically spare bit of filmmaking. He also wrote and produced it, so its passion-project bona fides are front and center. As a vehicle for its star, […]
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