At last, TV’s longest running murder spree has ended. After eight seasons, Dexter, the Showtime cable network’s first significant original drama is no more. And it seems like just yesterday we were all nervously contemplating the outcome of the Ice Truck Killer case. Beginning in […]
Movies & TV TV ReviewsWhen you think of the average horror filmmaker certain things come to mind—the nerdy eccentricity, the black T-shirt fashion motif. So it follows that certain other things don’t come to mind—ex-lawyer, yoga practitioner, Investigation Discovery television producer, for example. However, Vancouver, British Columbia’s Karen Lam […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVThe zombie film, whether you love it or despise it, is an indispensable part of horror’s dark tapestry. Commingling the gothic dark with the gory red, the zombie film helped to transition terror away from the more cerebral towards the more visceral. Some commentators blame […]
Featured ArticleAmazingly, ever since the publication of A Study in Scarlet in 1887, the “Great Detective,” Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant/Boswell-like biographer Dr. John H. Watson have enthralled readers with their tales of ratiocination (to lift a phrase from Edgar Allan Poe – Sir Arthur Conan […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsFollowing the success of Insidious in 2010, there was no doubt that a sequel would follow. How many more frights and jumps director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell could squeeze out of the old haunted house genre was the real question. To kind of/sort […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVIn Riddick, Vin Diesel returns to his cult favorite role as Richard B. Riddick in a lean, gritty flick that returns to the franchise’s roots. This movie is very much Diesel’s project and he reportedly worked for scale in order to get the project green-lighted. […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVJessica Cameron’s directorial debut had begun the festival circuit and it couldn’t have a better world premiere date. Truth or Dare will be making its bloody world premiere this coming FRIDAY THE 13TH at 9pm at the Arizona Underground Film Festival in Tucson, AZ. Tucson […]
NewsThe X-Files debuted on September 10th 1993 and to celebrate the franchise’s 20th anniversary we’ll be counting down the top 10 episodes here at Ravenous Monster. How can I choose just ten of the series’ 203 episodes? By very slowly and painfully cutting many of […]
Featured ArticleAliens have most often been portrayed through literature and film as ominous creatures whose interests lie in world domination, water thievery or devouring us for dinner. The typical thought is that an extraterrestrial creature from outer space (other than E.T.) will come and dominate or […]
Featured ArticleOn Tuesday, independent film production company The October People made news when their movie Sader Ridge got a new name—The Invoking—and a worldwide distribution deal with Ruthless Pictures. Sader Ridge had racked up several favorable reviews this summer including one from Ravenous Monster’s Tiana Bodine and recently Fangoria Magazine’s […]
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