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Right. Let’s get this out in the open before we go any further. I love Ed Wood. Not ironically. Not as a cult in-joke. I love him the way other people love immaculate framing and directors who treat film sets like sacred temples. To me, Wood isn’t a punchline, he’s a wildfire. While Stanley Kubrick…
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Ever found that mystery‑meat burrito buried in the back of a gas‑station freezer that somehow makes your taste buds question their entire existence? Tom is that burrito, only in movie form. A grimy, unapologetic, so‑wrong‑it’s‑right piece of cinematic junk food that somehow burns itself into the cortex of your brain. This isn’t a bad movie…
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​Let’s step out of the foggy New England docks and into the marble hills of Arcadia, where friendship curdles, ambition festers, and the trees have very long memories. Where The Terrible Old Man crept through fog and shadow, claiming the souls of those foolish enough to step into his world, The Tree grows silently in…
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Dracula: The Creature of the Night In today’s world, vampires are taken for granted in horror. We see them in movies, play them in games, and read about falling in love with them in books, but this wasn’t always the case. Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897, a successful and widespread book; before that vampire…
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I’ll be honest here. I have no idea what the fuck I just watched. This was one of the most out there movies it’s ever been my pleasure to sit through, and I loved every second of it. ​Gunfighter Paradise isn’t just a movie; it’s a full-on psychological ambush. Written and directed by Jethro Waters,…
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​Hammer was in trouble in ’71. They were like a zombie at a disco, trying to look cool, but their limbs were falling off. They’d just had a hit with The Vampire Lovers, but Ingrid Pitt had bailed, Terence Fisher had literally broken his leg, and the studio was actively trying to modernise and court…
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Never being one to look a gift horse in the mouth, The Asylum have released Frankenstein’s Bride onto digital platforms, a couple of weeks ahead of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, which is due out March 6th. When Frankenstein’s Monster is about to marry his bride, three men show up in the church, yell about blasphemy,…
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Step away from the Technicolor vampires and the campy castle sets, because we are heading to the year 1645, a time when the English countryside wasn’t a place for a picnic; it was a place for mass executions. While the 1960s were supposedly about peace and love, a director barely in his mid-twenties named Michael…
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Well Go USA have dropped a hair raising trailer for The Yeti, due out in selected theaters and on demand April 10th. When people start going missing in the wilderness, a team is sent to find them made up of people with names like Watchdog, Doctor, Radio, and Demolition. But what should be a simple…
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When John Carpenter’s The Thing landed in theaters in the summer of 1982, it didn’t just walk through the front door; it burst through the wall like something that had run out of room inside its own skin. It was a high-tension, high-octane masterpiece that arrived at the worst possible time. Audiences were busy falling…