Much to the chagrin of many a Lucio Fulci nay-sayer, the script for Zombie–the Italian director’s first zombie feature–was penned prior to the European release of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, thereby posing a dilemma for anyone attempting to claim...
In between appearances in Hollywood’s famed monster collective, John Carradine managed to find time to star in Edgar Ulmer’s Bluebeard, a film very loosely based on Charles Perrault’s 17th century serial killer fable, itself rumored to be the literary transcription of...
The fact that this film is not so much a horror film as it is a documentary kind of scares me, well let me rephrase that it’s not a documentary but does follow the killing and the life of the real Zodiac Killer and the people who tried to bring him down. In real...
Although 40 minutes pass before the first murder and the finale twists into a whole new realm, this is, at heart, a suspenseful ensemble old-school slasher flick. The alternative title, BLOODY REUNION, certainly makes it sound like a forgotten 80’s stalk n slash...
The Blood Trilogy was the first to introduced splatter to the world. Blood Feast, produced in 1963, is considered the world’s first splatter film and is the first in Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Blood Trilogy that consists of Two Thousand Maniacs produced in...
At least twenty new vampire films are produced each year; many of them thrive big on the direct to DVD market these days and as I’ve always said their one half dozen of the other. Most of them have the same concept, with a similar story and it’s a sub...