Horror movie fans and those of you in thrall to the Great Old Ones (isn’t that everyone?), rejoice! The good people at Full Moon Features are releasing a remastered Blu-ray edition of the ‘90s Lovecraft-inspired creeper Lurking Fear. Starring frequent Lovecraft-lover and adapter Jeffrey Combs […]
NewsRestoration follows a long line of haunted house/creepy ghost-child-secrets films that have watered down the VOD and Red Box world over the last several years. While the subgenre of the film is one that has been worn time and time again, director Zack Ward does […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVArtspoitation Films is arguably the number one distributor of strange, gonzo independent movies from around the world. Whatever Hollywood’s ethos is, Artsploitation’s is the antithesis of it. We’ve covered several of their releases here and win, lose, or draw, the one thing Ravenous Monster can […]
NewsWelcome to Tropeland. The Horde hits them all. Directed by Jared Cohn and written and starring Paul Logan, The Horde is discount bin bloodletting, with a slapdash of direct-to-video stupidity. Logan, who has an extensive career as a subpar Steven Seagal, plays John Crenshaw, an […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVPodcasts are a booming business in this technological day and age. With the horror community always searching for a new way to quench their blood thirst, it only makes sense that horror audio shows have blossomed across the airwaves. It harkens back to the grainy […]
Event Coverage Music & EventsVeteran genre filmmaker Jeremy Benson is back with a psychological horror flick boasting an all-star cast of genre stalwarts and top-level character-actors including Charisma Carpenter (Buffy, Angel), and Juliet Reeves (Automaton Transfusion, Zombies, Zombies, Zombies!). Benson’s latest project—by way of Candy Factory Films-looks to be […]
NewsSchool is hell, winter is hell, loneliness is hell. In director Osgood Perkins’s The Black Coat’s Daughter (previously entitled February) this hell is so close to being literal that blasphemous flames singe the screen. However, if you’re expecting The Black Coat’s Daughter to be all […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVAlien abductions are almost always unpleasant experiences—take it from me. They are scary, fleeting, fragmented episodes that come back in waves of terrifying recollection. Thus, they are a great topic for any horror movie dealing with extraterrestrial life. Brian Ackley’s Alienated is a film about […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVThe ghoulish gang at Arrow Video US is unleashing the definitive documentary on FX pioneer and progenitor of genre filmmaking—the late, great Ray Harryhausen. This release features a who’s who of genre stalwarts and a monstrous menu of killer special features. It will be required […]
News“A giallo is not a detective story, it is not a thriller, not a suspense movie, not a horror film.” Rather, according to Ernesto Gastaldi in Troy Howarth’s So Deadly, So Perverse, a giallo “can be any one of these things and also all of […]
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