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...
Yes, yes, yes. We all get the metaphor of the fabricated lives of the brothers’ tales representing the artificiality of the authors’ own existences and the morally uplifting premise that their own spiritual hollowness will ultimately be filled if they manage to...
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,...
