The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
I know I've spoken about this in previous reviews of films that included Ray Harryhausen effects, but I was lucky to meet the man a few years back, shake his hand, and see some of the original model used in many of his films. It was a great personal experience to sit...
Friday Night in Beast House – Book Review
Nobody, I mean nobody, writes like Richard Laymon, does. For the past two years, I’ve been on a Richard Laymon kick, sticking my nose into any of his books I can get my hands on, and between reading and reviewing other writers and their works, when I have nothing on...
Cuts – Book Review
I am guilty, guilty of never picking up or buying a Richard Laymon novel. You see back when I younger and really started getting into reading horror novels was in High School, which was the early nineteen nineties, I mostly read Barker, Saul and King. Then in 1995...
666: The Child
Timed, with typical precision by straight-to-Blockbuster genre outfit The Asylum, to cash in on Fox’s own 2006 cash-in remake of THE OMEN, 666 THE CHILD is shameless, cheap looking and jokey but, like some of The Asylum’s product, you end up unable to hate it. In...
Bloodstone – Book Review
I have never heard of Nate Kenyon before so when his first book published by Leisure fiction titled "Bloodstone" hit my doorstep the first thing that caught my eye was the very impressive book cover, that has this really freaky looking ghost peering from a window. I...
666: The Beast
Unlike its predecessor, the campy gore-strewn 666 THE CHILD, this Asylum-made sequel plays its apocalyptic good against evil scenario straight and forgets to contrive the kind of juicy creative “accidents” that made the original fun. Which kinda poses the question...
The Reach – Book Review
I first got wind of writer Nate Kenyon when I was sent his first Leisure release BLOODSTONE earlier this year. It was a decent book that had a lot of spooky twists and turns and was very much like Stephen Kings THE SHINING in many respects and gave you that uneasy...
5 Dolls For An August Moon (5 bambole per la luna d’agosto)
It is not as if the Godfather of Italian Gore was beyond having a bad day, especially considering that he spent a large portion of his career fighting restrictive shooting schedules and nonexistent budgets. Yet, we are nonetheless left to judge what appears before us...
Sparrow Rock – Book Review
The majority of books that I read all tend to have an apocalyptic theme to them. Everything from a zombie invasion, funky viruses, mutant bugs and nuclear explosions all seem to fit into the plot of those books. Sparrow Rock features both a nuclear explosion and...
5 Dead on a Crimson Canvas
I have a friend who has worked with Joe Parda on many films and is a good friend of his, I personally Have never meet the man but have had the opportunity to review a film he made a few years ago call "Machines of Love and Hate" which has yet to find a market here in...
Red – Book Review
“You tell me why’s a man’s blood is any better or any more precious than a dog’s blood? It sure ain’t to the dog.” --Avery Allan Ludlow, Senior Jack Ketchum, the nom de plume of Dallas Mayr, is a horror writer. However, his trade is that of the all-too-real horrors of...
300
Back in the first days of human history when the people in power were all described by the lands they lived in; The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc... People often believed the only way to make your mark on history was to do something great and powerful. Well many...
Old Flames – Book Review
Jack Ketchum is one of those horror writers whose name no one will ever forget. All the Ketchum novels I have had the pleasure of reading all left me haunted by the horrors that he not only inflicts on his characters, but the pain and suffering he puts his readers...
30 Days of Night: Dark Days
It is obvious that vampire films are very popular right now: everything from the Twilight series to the Swedish hit Let the Right One In. It’s safe to say that the vampire is back and shows no signs of going away. One of the best vampire films of recent years has been...
Mean Streets – Book Review
Gord Rollo and Gene O'Neill are both heavy hitters in the horror game. The praise their work has received and the quality of their novels and short stories has made both of them known names in the horror community. Knowing this, I was excited to read "Mean Streets," a...
