Any horror fan who grew up with horror films in the 80’s and 90’s knows what a majority of those films contained: blood, boobs, butts, and even occasionally bush (the bush flicks were always the most talked about and sought after VHS tapes). Steven Wolsh brings us back to relive those moments, except this time, […]
I love weird films. Sitting there watching some far out, crazy, fucked up plotline, with crazy visuals and some eccentric characters, even inanimate objects that are characters, is something I find strangely intriguing. Films like Naked Lunch, Chasing Sleep, Brain Dead, Session 9, or the more recent John Dies At The End, find a special […]
My appreciation of shaky cam POV running through the woods films began and ended with The Blair Witch Project. There are just too many these days, a sub-genre flooded with crap that any filmmaker with a camera and can run in the woods can create, but with much less innovation. Ejecta, while not entirely made […]
There are two genres of film where you can really tell what gender is behind the camera. Horror movies and porn. Think about it; it’s totally true. CRAZY BITCHES, written and directed by Jane Clark, is a refreshing spin on the slasher genre. The story follows a group of girls who were friends in college […]
I have long had the point of view that isolated thinking is my enemy. The owner of a one-track mind is someone to be feared, at the very least, as there is nothing one-dimensional about life. Even an amoeba exists in three-dimensions. The brains of political enslavement being the most obvious example I can think […]
Before we were introduced to the lives of the Crane sisters, Sam Loomis and Norman Bates, Horror typically meant something else. Even going back into literature, the Horror standard involved manipulations of science or full-blown ghost stories. What Psycho did was strip away any of the myth-like realities that could or could not have been […]
There are horror films and there are HORRIFIC films. The difference, to me anyway, is that one portrays an undead-unstoppable killer that is chasing you around. The other, is a normal everyday looking guy, that’s really a crazy fucker, chasing you around, trying to kill you with no remorse or empathy. IN THE HOUSE OF […]
ATTACK OF THE MORNINGSIDE MONSTER has something going for it that few indie horror films have: well-written characters played by superb actors. The story follows a sheriff, Tom, in a small town where the local pot dealers begin disappearing and then re-appearing…dead. It’s up to Tom and his department to track down the SCREAM robed, […]
Some films are just made for gore-filled fun. Peter Jackson’s early works such as Bad Taste and Dead Alive are probably ones that stand out to the horror fan. During this time there were quite a few that continued to focus on the sickest practical gore effects and thrust the makeup artists into being the […]
Some films just leave your jaw dropped open wondering what you just saw. GUTTERBALLS is certainly one of those films. A throwback to the grindhouse slasher films, Gutterballs, written and directed by Ryan Nicholson, is certainly one of those films. Nicholson does not flinch at subject matter, from sexual explicit scenes, to a hard to […]
There aren’t very many films that I’ve sat through on several occasions that still chill my blood when I revisit the experience. Theodore Gershuny’s extremely underrated Silent Night, Bloody Night is one that does. Since this is a terror-filled mystery, I don’t want to get too much into what the story entails, especially since if […]
AN AMERICAN TERROR takes on a bit of a different storyline. Creating characters and a story setup kind of like From Dusk Til Dawn with a narrative within a narrative. Ray, Josh, and Sammy are the outcasts in high school, getting bullied by jocks and cheerleaders to the point where they snap. They devise this […]
Here’s how the story unfolds in KRUEL… Jo finds out her boyfriend cheated on her, she is devastated and breaks up with him, but he knows he screwed up and wants her to take him back. While babysitting, Jo meets a strange ice cream man that creeps her out. One day while babysitting, Ben comes […]
There are only a few elements that can make or break an indie horror film and in most cases we see one of these scenarios: Great script with horrible direction, Great script with great director and horrible cast, a great cast and director but horrible script. It normally just takes one of these elements to […]
