“A fictional story based on a real character” drones the obligatory title card of this umpteenth straight to DVD horror movie “inspired” by the activities of a real life serial killer. It belatedly joins at least two other recent movies about the same murderer –...
I was fortunate enough to attend the premiere of Stevan Mena’s Brutal Massacre at The Long Island International Film Expo last year. And now the film is being released on DVD July 22nd. Steven is best known for the his first horror film titled Malevolence, which...
Yes, yes, yes. We all get the metaphor of the fabricated lives of the brothers’ tales representing the artificiality of the authors’ own existences and the morally uplifting premise that their own spiritual hollowness will ultimately be filled if they manage to...
David Cronenberg’s (Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers, A History of Violence, The Fly, Scanners, Spider) The Brood, the last film in his early period, paints a stark picture of rage placed alongside divorce. However, by contributing to the nightmare child cycle of the time,...
Screenwriters Rick Fry and Woody Keith took the short story, “Herbert West–Reanimator” by H. P. Lovecraft, and attempted to create another, in some respects, more faithful adaptation of the tale than Stuart Gordon’s original. Though still a very loose...
Bride of the Monster is an aggregation of firsts and lasts: It was Ed Wood’s first horror film (his third full-length feature after Glen or Glenda and Jailbait), Tor Johnson’s first onscreen portrayal of a character named Lobo, Bela Lugosi’s (second to) last role, the...
