Writer/director Karen Lam’s latest feature Evangeline is currently globetrotting the festival circuit, having made its North American debut on November 29th at the Blood in the Snow film festival in Toronto, Canada. After chatting with Lam earlier this year just after Evangeline had wrapped, Ravenous […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TV“German expressionism meets Jack Kirby.” That’s how kooky old Alan Moore once described the artwork of Mike Mignola, the creator of the demonic hero Hellboy. Ever since Seed of Destruction was published in 1994, Mignola has been at the top of the heap insofar as […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsI may be a history geek, but that doesn’t mean I want to hang out with Calvin Coolidge. I found this out the hard way, when a Coolidge impersonator dropped by our ninth grade auditorium. Admittedly, the bar had been set pretty high after a […]
Event Coverage Music & EventsPaper Street Pictures president and founder Aaron B Koontz is a writer first. Like many writers, this scribe included, storytelling knows no bounds and as is often the case, the love of storytelling via cinema usually takes hold like an insidious virus and eventually overruns […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVI can empathize with Gary A. Braunbeck. Much like the impressive hand behind 2005’s Keepers, I too once thought that my students could benefit by writing from the perspective of a fictional character. Specifically, during an assignment that coincided with Halloween, I tasked my eighteen […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsRavenous Monster’s Rob Hibbs interviews Gunnar Hansen, star of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the original Leatherface! Listen to Gunnar talk about his new book, making TCM, and who would win in a Leatherface battle royale!
Movie Interviews Movies & TVRock and roll made horror movies. More importantly, rock and roll made horror movies the brash, classless, and underground entities that we know them as today. Sure, there were plenty of crude and exploitative horror films before the 1950s (Dwain Esper’s Maniac immediately springs to […]
Featured ArticleLet’s start with some numbers: –In horror movies, only 16% of lead roles go to non-white actors. –32% of all female characters in horror films die, compared with only 23% of male characters. –70% of all non-white characters die, compared with only 27% of all […]
Featured ArticleRavenous Monster caught up with IronE Singleton best known as T-Dog on The Walking Dead. Extra special thanks to Megan Fahey for persevering through a zombie horde of technical difficulties to make sure we got this shot. And thanks again to IronE Singleton for being […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVJason Figgis’s (whom we interviewed earlier this year) post apocalyptic feature Children of a Darker Dawn—formerly Railway Children, comes to DVD just in time for the holidays. Read the full press release below. Nov. 5th—Teen Sci-Fi/Horror title from October Eleven Pictures will be distributed on DVD […]
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