Unleashed from prison after 40 years, Coffin Joe (you know, the guy with talons, long black coat and permanent scowl, played with hammy relish by director Jose Mojica Marins) and his hunchback assistant resume their life-long mission to obtain immortality by finding...
Before Poltergeist or Ghostbusters, director Sidney Furie presented us with a tale of graphically-brutal horror in the form of a supernatural antagonist in The Entity. During a time when the genre was laden with slasher films, Furie skirted the line between a ghost...
Recently screened as part of the Cambridge Film Festival in England, END OF THE LINE is writer-director Maurice Devereaux’s first film since 2001’s $LASHER$, a technically ambitious satire of both reality TV and slasher flicks. This movie has some questionable...
Ellory Elkayem’s feature-length debut, Eight Legged Freaks (ELF), attempts to take producer Roland Emmerich’s love for the gigantic and create a parody of 1950’s monster invasion flicks. What I gathered from the movie is that the filmmakers had perhaps too much fun...
There are strong echoes of both FALLING DOWN and AFTER HOURS in Stuart Gordon’s latest genre-bending movie. It’s a riveting depiction of the escalating horrors faced by a mild mannered schmuck / long-term doormat as he finds himself in way over his head, out of cash...
“The Edge of Reality” is a set of three short horror films (Ala: Creepshow) made low budget style. Released by Brimstone Productions (site link above), this film follows the tradition of last years film, Monsterdotcom which I extremely enjoyed. However...
