Best known for as one of the best special effects guys around, Robert Kurtzman is no stranger to working on films. While Buried Alive is not the first film he has ever directed it's not his best one either. No before he directed this film he directed the action sci-fi...

Being buried alive is such a universally feared phenomenon that its no surprise cinema history - not just within the horror genre - is rife with terrifying sequences depicting just that. The most memorable moments of KILL BILL VOLUME 2, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, the...

From Piero Regnoli, co-writer of Nightmare City and of I, Vampiri, and exploitation director Andrea Bianchi, comes Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror, the unofficial follow-up to Lucio Fulci’s Zombi 2 (thus accounting for the film’s alternate title, Zombie 3, which...

MTI Video and Red Rum Entertainment were kind enough to send me a screener of this film before it becomes available in video stores in June. I had read an article in Fangoria Magazine about this film sometime last year and was pretty excited to check it out. Well it...

If you were to look up Ted Bundy's name on the Internet Movie Database, you would see that there are over seventeen actors who have played the serial killer in films. Whether the based upon his killings, a mere mention or done in a comical sense, this famous villain...

Not since Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation has paranoia loomed so menacingly upon the Silver Screen. Of course, it would take a master to match The Godfather’s prowess, thus it is no surprise that William Friedkin does so with such style and ease (hey, you try...

Roger Corman was the foremost gorilla filmmaker during the 20th century. As the old adage goes, Corman could get a project green lit on a pay phone, shoot the film in the booth, and produce it on the change left over from the call. In many respects, Corman has made a...

DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Widescreen - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Additional Release Material: Audio Commentaries - 1. Bruce Campbell - Star, Ossie Davis - Star, Bob Ivy - Star 2. Don Coscarelli - Director/Screenwriter, Joe R. Lansdale - Story...

Don Coscarelli (the Phantasm series, The Beastmaster), using the ruse that “something different” worked for Phantasm, took the epitome of “something different” in the writings of Joe Lansdale and created a conspiracy theory horror comedy set in a Texas nursing home...

The set-up for this ultra low-budget ($11k allegedly) attempt at a latterday Grindhouse horror movie is promising enough : the eponymous Bubba (S. Mike Davis) oversees a popular Texan chili parlor. Some recently acquired meat from the government turns out to be...

“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 won...

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 translation,...