Artspoitation 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 […]
Music & Events Music ReviewsTake the pill and the drink the Kool-Aid. Don’t worry about the ATF agents on the other side of the compound. We have to leave this earth if we want to meet the mothership. But, before we go, let’s creepy crawl some pigs. This is […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVAn interesting trend has been emerging in horror tales of our modern age. One: The most compelling horror narratives are, increasingly, found outside of film. Video games and creepypasta are, in many ways, dominating the modern horror narrative. Two: Some of the most interesting and […]
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