Sometimes the simplest approach to making a movie tends to be the best, especially when making low budget films. Rage is a perfect example of less being more, and in return you get a very entertaining thriller well worth your 90 minutes. The plot for Rage is a basic setup. Dennis Twist is a suburbanite [...]
As the weather gets colder, my thoughts turn to rites of springtime…which, my mind being the corkscrew it is, leads me into thinking about pagan fertility cults, which leads me into thinking about movies involving the survival of pagan fertility cults
Last week Blue Underground unleashed on the masses the Lucio Fulci classics Zombie (1979) and The House By The Cemetery (1981) on blu-ray. Being an avid horror fan I’m used to having my favorite movies released every couple years in new collectors sets and special editions. This is the first time either of these movies [...]
Scarlet Fry’s Junkfood Horrorfest is a collection of insanely short films (most clocking in under 10 minutes apiece) that is being released on the 18th by Chemical Burn. The movie features Calico Cooper as a druggie looking to score some product, but instead is given a videotape. So after dispatching of the man who shorted [...]
“Hey couch potatoes it’s me, Dr. Shock, your Midnight Mental Maniac, your Marauder of Mayhem, your Lieutenant of Lunacy, your Prince of Puns!” So began many a Saturday nights on WUPW Fox 36 in Toledo, Ohio when Dr. Shock’s X-ray Chiller Theatre hit the airwaves. From 1989 till 1992 Dr. Shock and his cast of [...]
What would a movie convention be without plenty of kick ass movies to sit and watch over three days? Last weekend’s Cinema Wasteland once again had a hefty handful of films from the 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s as well as some independent flicks still looking for distribution. Of course I couldn’t see everything screened as [...]
Swamp Monster + Practical FX = on September 20th, Bill is going to his Happy Place.
Cancer and illness is a very real part of our everyday life. What is a person to do when the fears of a shortened life become too much to bear? Give yourselves a funeral of course! Based on a true Thai ritual in which people lie in a coffin for a certain number of days to ward off [...]
Independent Horror Movies (noun)- a low budget motion picture produced against all odds, without any help from big investors, that seeks to entertain a small but faithful audience with over-the-top stories, juicy gore and gratuitous boob appearances and, on some very rare and precious occasions, truly scaring the shit out of the audience. I couldn’t [...]
The Businesswoman behind Knit Terrors spins a yarn.
Screamers was written for the screen by the one and only Dan O’bannon, and adapted from a Phillip K. Dick short by the name of “Second Variety”. The story takes place on the planet Sirius 6B, a former mining planet, rich with berynium, which was once thought to be the answer to Earth’s energy crisis. [...]
Before you read on, make sure you watch this: I would be some sort of horrific heel if I didn’t tell you I have been a proponent of this movie since Smith first announced the writing of it back in 2005. The “youth of America versus the religious right” premise is just beautifully simple, and [...]
Geno McGahee, founder of X-Posse Productions and director of such under-the-radar genre fare as Evil Awakening and Rise of the Scarecrows, is preparing to unleash his latest creation on the unsuspecting inhabitants of our swirling sphere. And this time it’s personal. Here is the plot synopsis given to the Bloodsprayer: Phyliss McGee was a wicked woman when [...]
We’ve all known the horror and despair of an ice cream cone melting faster than we can eat it on a hot day. How much more horror and despair would we experience if, instead of an ice cream cone, it was our face melting?
Mason does a good job straddling the line between the gritty indie style he’s become known for, and mainstream marketability. Fans of his previous work will not be disappointed, yet casual viewers are not left feeling alienated. The characters are all interesting, and easy to relate to. The story is smart, and compelling, yet easy to follow, and the ending is both satisfying, and unexpected. Adam Mason stepped outside of his comfort level with this film, proving that he’s not a one-trick pony. With Andrew Howard’s career building steam, perhaps a much deserved theatrical release will be given to “Luster” in the year to come.
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