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If Book of the Dead had been written by Lovecraft, then the lead characters would’ve gone catatonic by page seventy. Instead of action, the readers would’ve been treated to introspection and digressions about how mankind was not meant to know the true contents of the […]
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Having made a low-budget zombie film myself a few years back, I can attest to how difficult it can be to keep a film moving along in the right direction. In The Burning Dead, director Rene Perez—an independent filmmaker with nine credits to his IMDB […]
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Calling all fans of weird, sleazy, badass cinema–the type that newbies call “grindhouse” and professors call “exploitation,” while weirdoes like us don’t talk–we just eat popcorn, drink beer and freak out: Big World Pictures and director James Bickert are preparing to create the follow up […]
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You feel the dried page against your finger and hear a subtle crack as you gingerly turn it. The book’s spine is stiff and you look down, taking in the yellowed paper. In the dimly lit room you smile coyly to yourself. The book is […]
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A professor the Editor-In-Chief and I recall fondly from our schoolboy days once said that, “carnivals and haunted houses are our culture’s last bastion of legalized fear.” It was in a screenwriting course, and those of us interested in fear wrote it down with the […]
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Hong Kong cinema tends to be a grab-bag. A “grab-all” might be a more appropriate phrase, actually. I’ve never seen a Hong Kong film that wasn’t happy to simultaneously tickle and revolt, to play the low road with blush-worthy sex jokes, all the while quoting […]
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Greig Beck dedicates Gorgon to the men and women of the Australia & New Zealand Armed Forces—doubtless an innocent gesture from an ANZAC-loving Aussie, but one that left this American reader a bit leery. Ever since September 11th, the United States has lost anything like […]
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Alright, Horror Fans! We have a press release from Uncork’d Entertainment regarding an upcoming movie release. Zombies. Volcanoes. Danny Trejo. Need I write more? Didn’t think so. Full press release and trailer below…. The top blows off when THE BURNING DEAD melts onto VOD this […]
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By this point, I hope you know the deal. 1981’s The House By the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero), which features in the opening of the video for the band Entombed’s “Left Hand Path,” is, to quote a Time Out magazine review, “cut-price spaghetti […]
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This being the fourth season of the American Horror Story vehicle, I was really looking forward to the show taking on one of the most intriguing and taboo topics in the world of horror—the freak show. Like most, I was overjoyed the read that the […]
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