Investors and studios are hardly interested in anything related to horror, they see the horror genre as a joke meant for those of low intelligence or for teenagers with raging hormones. Horror is not seen to be intelligent or culturally relevant. That is until people like Friedkin, Carpenter, or Polanski fight to get their hands on [...]
Hello Blood Sprayer readers! I have been gone from the site for a long time, due to a number of factors. I have gotten engaged, bought a house, and written a novel in the time since I was last active on here. It is actually the last item on the list that brings me [...]
Where do I begin with a review for a movie titled Skin Eating Jungle Vampires? Let’s start with the basics- a title breakdown; “skin eating”- not included. Yes, a “jungle” is involved, so got that one right; “Vampires”, absent. You may be asking what exactly is in this movie? Well, I’ll tell you. The movie [...]
“Excessive” slow-motion sequences of exploding torsos (no such thing, I say) landed this film on the UK’s infamous “Video Nasty” list, and with it we kick off an ongoing series showcasing these “Sadist Videos.”
In honor of Dan O’Bannon Week, I have chosen to focus on one of the writer’s most famous characters, Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) – the heroine of director Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror / sci fi hybrid film ALIEN and its subsequent sequels. The iconic character evolved over time and came to represent different ideals: survivor, [...]
Or How I Learned To Stop Hyperdriving and Debate Philosophy With The Bomb
Nihilism is overused today – overused as misused terminology and overused as a mistakenly new concept in film. However, there are some films that explore such philosophical themes so well that they beg to be discussed. Alien is one of these films. While people often talk about the dire tone and menacing style of Ridley Scott’s [...]
“Like one that on a lonesome road/Doth walk in fear and dread,/And having once turned round walks on,/And turns no more his head;/Because he knows, a frightful fiend/Doth close behind him tread.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year now since Dan O’Bannon left this world. A man who wrote some some of the most imaginative films of the past 30 years. He’s best known for being the scribe behind Alien and writing and directing The Return of The Living Dead, but Dan O’Bannon created more [...]
There is a safeword…but will you use it?
IGN brings confirmation today that the long-awaited ‘Alien Quadrilogy’ will be hitting Blu-Ray on October 26th.
If you missed this week’s earlier post, let me catch you up to speed. Scribblenauts-> cute puzzle game-> I use as death match simulator-> king of the horror world determined->fan boys weep and cry foul (or not.) Gets your bets in now, cause here comes Round 2!
Meet Scribblenauts. Scribblenauts is NOT a horror game.
In a land where black snow falls in the shape of swastikas, there exists a nightmarish prison camp known as Auschwitz.
This is what happens when you take horror fans, Legos, and countless creativity and lock them in a room for 6 weeks. Amidst my 5am, can’t sleep, web browsing I came across a phenomenon that I had not been privy to yet. They’re calling them Cube Dudes and there are TONS of pictures of them [...]
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