Cinema Suicide

In what seems like news from a completely different dimension, a musical version of Dario Argento’s classic 1975 thriller Profondo Rosso (known to US fans as Deep Red) was recently performed in Italy.  Although this isn’t exactly current news as the musical’s performance ceased in March, Cinevox recently released the soundtrack CD.
I found out about […]

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Satan Hates You director, James Felix McKenney dropped a dime yesterday to hit me with a press release.  The long in production Christsploitation flick, Satan Hates You wrapped principal photography in New York on Tuesday and the movie is in post-production now.
Satan Hates You boasts a pretty impressive cast including Don Wood (TV’s COLONIAL HOUSE, […]

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I am way over the Saw series of movies.  I haven’t seen any of them past Saw 2.  Personally, I’m not so much turned off by the sadism as I am the fact that it takes them less than a year to produce and market a sequel and that pretty much since the inception of […]

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I seem to get a lot of people asking me when this movie was supposed to come out and my usual answer was, “I don’t fucking know! Stop asking me!” But now I can stop being an asshole and commit to this. My Name Is Bruce is finally getting a theatrical run according to […]

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I have real mixed feelings about Rob Zombie as a filmmaker. I absolutely hated the Halloween remake in spite of my wishy washy review and I’m willing to cut House of 1,000 Corpses a little slack because it was his first feature coming off a string of director spots on music videos, but I […]

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Sad news is spreading around the various genre movie sites right now that yesterday, June 15th, special effects pioneer, Stan Winston died.  Details have yet to come down.  Stan was the guy who brought you some of the most immediately recognizable practical special effects in the history of movies.  He is responsible for the The […]

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Fuck! I am so late on this shit. Busy weekend and all that.  Appropriately enough, they saw fit to his us with another bit of news from the production of the Friday the 13th remake which I am not as hostile to as I should be.  To the left, you can see the mask from […]

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I wish I could attach a title to this post since the clips I’m about to link you to are obviously promotional clips for something but the problem is, I don’t know what it is.  Yet.  In the past, I’ve tossed my hat into the ring in this or that alternate reality game (ARG) but […]

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Scorpio Film Releasing’s Richard Griffin, director of the recent indie H.P. Lovecraft/Lucio Fulci mashup, Beyond The Dunwich Horror just dropped a dime and hit me with the following press release. Word on the street was that following Dunwich, Griffin and company were going to roll cameras on a […]

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A little while back I hit you with Tyler Stout’s awesome poster for the special screening of John Carpenter’s The Thing at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas.  Their series of outstanding silk screened posters continues with their roadshow series which has a stop at the Monroeville Mall just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania later this […]

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If you need further proof that Black Dynamite is going to be the greatest blaxploitation send up of all time, check out this clip. The producers of Black Dynamite hooked up Twitch Film with a clip (yet curiously ignored my emails) that demonstrates the power and influence of Black Dynamite over younger brothers. […]

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You know what’s weird? I think I may have mentioned Fear, Itself once when the series was first announced but since then I have been curiously mum. Why is that? I can’t say. Seriously. No idea. I was conflicted about Masters of Horror, the Showtime anthology series that served as a […]

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So many people try to spoof blaxploitation movies and it’s not like I don’t have a sense of humor but the typical spoof just isn’t that funny.  I don’t want to mention names but there are a couple of blaxploitation send ups coming down the line that are getting a lot of hype from the […]

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Here’s a reminder for readers local to Providence, Rhode Island.  Richard Griffin’s indie horror mashup of Lovecraft and Italian splatter, Beyond The Dunwich Horror premiers tomorrow, Friday, May 23 at 7pm and 9pm. Further details can be found at their Myspace profile.
In the meantime, why don’t you take a spin over to Kryptographik and check […]

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Say what you want about the movie’s title. I was resigned to see this from the moment I heard about the production. A part of me still pines for those sunday nights (formerly Fridays) of that paranormal shit made mainstream by great writing and acting. Two of television’s greatest characters mired in […]

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Is there anything funnier than Nazis?  Plenty, actually.  The pulpy possibilities of casting a horrifying, genocidal empire as the villains in your Indy-inspired action movie or your 30’s era sci-fi movie are endless.  Hogan’s Heroes proved that if nothing else, they were easy to make a mockery of and no one can seem to get […]

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Re-exploring the horror movies of the 70’s and 80’s has been the hip thing to do in recent years with everyone paying tribute to their favorite movies.  It’s astonishing to me that it has taken this long for someone to get the balls up to go back to one of horror’s most savage and notorious […]

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Look, TV choices on Sundays are shit so when I saw Christopher Lee’s name in credits, it was all I needed to get me to watch Return To Witch Mountain. I have very fond childhood memories of the Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing double-whammy on Saturday afternoons thanks to the WLVI Creature Double Feature and because […]

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Occasionally, I warm my frosty attitude toward manga when something like Detroit Metal City comes along.  It seems strange to me that there could be a comic about a metal band.  In cases such as this, half the gag usually goes to the music and it’s tough to put that across on the illustrated page.  […]

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I was in Canada, an arcade in the CN Tower (Canadian Space Needle) the first time I ever saw Splatterhouse and being an avid fan of both video games and horror movies, you can imagine my elation when I discovered such a gory freakin’ video game. Maybe you’re familiar with it, maybe not. […]

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