Wolf Rilla, alongside co screenwriters Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night , Charly) and Ronald Kinnoch, adapted John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos to the screen as he attempted to present a commentary on youth culture while simultaneously issuing a...

Being a product of the 1980s, the decade of my adolescence, the biggest comedies I remember going to the theater in pure adulation were Ghostbusters, Twins, and Stripes. What do these films have in common? They were all directed by Ivan Reitman. While I adore these...

Highly gifted author and illustrator Gris Grimly was approached by Peter Sandorff, the former guitarist of the gothic psychobilly band, the Nekromantix, the latter proposing that the duo create something involving the former’s art as Sandorff while provides the...

Holly shit I never in my life thought that I'd enjoy a piece of shit film like this so much in my life.  (Note to all you B-movies directors who want to send me your screeners for review, you want a good review, send me a twelve pack of Sam Adams along with your...

A buddy of mine came into the store that I work at the other day and told me he was off to the "Long Island Cinema Arts Centre" for an exploitation double feature. He told me one of the films was "The Candy Snatchers", funny thing is that when I came home a few hours...

German Silent Era master Paul Leni (Waxworks, The Man Who Laughs), creates a genre-defining work with Alfred Cohn’s (The Jazz Singer) adaptation of  John Willard’s 1922 stage play, The Cat and the Canary.  Leni fills the screen with a conglomeration of killers,...

Check out these clips of Captivity. Clip 1 Clip 2 A lot of talent went in to the making of CAPTIVITY and a fair amount of controversy heralded its arrival in cinemas. Talk about much ado about nothing! The talent in question? The cast is headed by Elisha Cuthbert, a...

DVD Features: Available Subtitles: Spanish Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) Cast auditions Voodoo Nightmare: The Making of Venom Storyboard-to-film comparison DVD Review: When I first saw the trailer to "Venom" I thought it looked very promising. A...

Check out these clips of Captivity. Clip 1 Clip 2 Captivity surprised the hell out of me. It has one of the strangest production teams behind it. Roland Joffe as the director who’s been nominated for several academy awards and has helmed films from The Killing Fields...

This review is probably going to be shorter than usual, simply because it's very hard for me to review a documentary that talks about real life history. With this documentary; THE VAMPIRE PRINCESS we get into the science behind the true identity of Dracula and his...

My initial reaction upon viewing the indie short film Camp Death was: “What the hell did I just watch?” No, this movie wasn’t a Cronenberg mindfucker or a Lynchian enigma…it was just barely visible. The viewing experience that Camp Death offers is pretty much exactly...

[Segments of the following review have previously appeared, in varied form, in City Slab Magazine #10.] Robert Bierman’s Vampire’s Kiss is, quite simply, not only one of the most criminally overlooked gems within the genre, but was--and continues to be--well ahead of...

"Candy Stripers" is about a group of hostel aliens who land in a small California town, however these aliens are not who they seem to be, and are on a mission to take over the earth. However the aliens in their quest take over the bodies of some candy stripers at the...

In a very similar vein to the CG-enhanced comic splatter shenanigans of the recent MACHINE GIRL and TOKYO GORE POLICE (co-director Yoshihiro Nishimura worked on both in either a directing or special effects capacity while Naoyuki Tomomatsu directed the stylistically...