According to everything one happens to read about director Jeremiah Buckhalt’s Blood Widow, this film heralds the dawn of a new era: The era of the bad ass female slasher. ANNO FEMINAE. Furthermore, this is a film that has the distinction of premiering at Cannes. […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVI highly recommend you pick up a copy of Brian Moreland’s new novella The Vagrants (Samhain Publishing). With a page count of a shade over 100, Moreland somehow manages to both create depth to his characters as well as create an entirely new world that […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsIt’s late and it’s dark but one walks the streets An axe in his hand, no glint in his eye This mindless machine, he butcher, you meat! Calm and collected, but twisted inside! -“Axeman,” Amebix (1985) Axeman is the first modern horror movie that […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVWith my deadline approaching on silent, dark wings, I’m sitting here with no idea how to start writing on nature run amok.[1] I think the Editor-in-Chief technically wanted this column yesterday, but there was enough implied wiggle-room that if I get it to him in […]
Featured ArticlePerugia is an ancient Etruscan city that sits in the heart of the Italian region of Umbria. For most, this central city is synonymous with the University of Perugia, which was founded in 1308 and well over a hundred years before Columbus even had a […]
Featured Article“The Devil, he been with you a long time….” Recompense is a short film about a man that’s locked up one day and finds he’s sharing a cell with a mysterious man who offers a way out of this predicament. James is a down-on-his-luck lower-class […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVA family tragedy compels a young couple to trade their city life for one in the country. They end up purchasing a secluded house, complete with no internet, gas, or the utilities that most of us can’t live without. To make matters worse, the house […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVTruth or Dare, the directorial debut from ascending scream queen Jessica Cameron, is one of those rare movies that inspires an irrational compulsion to bathe. In fact, this reviewer’s thoughts became sanitarily grandiose after watching this exercise in sadistic cinema. A hot shower? A man-sized […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVGODZILLA (2014): “Return of the King” “History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of man…” —Godzilla Blue Oyster Cult If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. A trite cliché, but one that applies most definitely to this year’s reboot […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVAll our legends die. One day, Savage Readers, we’ll sign on to Facebook and find out that Stephen King, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, and John Carpenter are crafted of the same mortal maggot-meat we all are. On May 12th, Swiss artist Hans Rudolf Giger died […]
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