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,...

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...

“An audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story.” --Mary Shelley James Whale was initially apathetic to the notion of creating a sequel to Frankenstein, which was partially justifiable considering that interest in monster films was on the decline...

Ronny Yu’s romantic horror comedy, Bride of Chucky, drastically veers to the left of the tone established by his Child’s Play predecessors by his focusing explicitly upon the title character’s acidic, wry tongue and placing horror second tier. Unlike what has come to...

If there is one Independent film I've seen this year that looked like it was made in a Hollywood studio it would be "Broken". In a nutshell "Broken" puts most Independent films to shame. Made on only a budget of a mere eight thousand dollars, "Broken" looks like it's...

Broken is a film from the U.K. that takes a whole new turn at the survival horror sub-genre. While the film is being compared to the likes of Saw and Hostel, I saw it as being a film that had a lot more intelligence behind it. Now don't get me wrong I thought that...

Although best known to date for making the high concept Brit comedy CASHBACK, several years ago Sean Ellis made a directorial mark in the horror genre with the superior, menacing short film LEFT TURN. The imperfect but eerie BROKEN confirms his ability to wring...

It should be enough to merely state that Tim Kincaid’s Breeders is the progeny of an individual whose canon is largely comprised of direct-to-video productions. Sadly, this isn’t enough. What makes this particular film especially decrepit is that fact it holds the...

From executive producer Wes Craven (does he actually know his name is on all these movies?) comes an old school, straight-forward revenge-of-nature flick, much in the vein of Robert Clouse’s THE PACK (1976). If you were feeling uncharitably picky, you could use...

As I was watching The Breed, my question of whether or not the director had ever seen a movie was answered when two of his characters make mention of Bambi. Granted, this is issuing optimistic benefit of the doubt twice over in that 1) such could be due to the...