At the beginning of this year, my wife and I took a look a our viewing habits and decided the $50+ we were paying a month to the cable company could be better distributed elsewhere in our budget. So, we dropped cable, and went out to buy a digital converter box and HD antenna. We lost a few local ch
I think I've seen every screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1896 novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and while the 1932 version with Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi, Island of Lost Souls, still stands as the pinnacle, 1972's Twilight People has a lot to recommend it. First and foremost, the Philippines-s
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At this point in its life, Wojciech Golczewskiâs score for Beyond the Gates has been released in three formats, each regressing further in terms of media. It was first available digitally, then via cassette from Data Airlines, and now on vinyl from Death Waltz Record Co. Given the fact that Jackson Stewartâs film is about … Continued
If thereâs a manual on how to craft a haunted house or possession movie, House on Elm Lake followed it to the letter. Every cliché is adhered to. One would say without fail, but the sad fact of the matter is that director James Klass has no sense of how to make a film legitimately … Continued
The Cured, the debut film from writer and director David Freyne, is yet another film which shows the seemingly-infinite malleability of the zombie subgenre. The director casts his zombies as rampaging victims of an infection called the Maze virus, Ã la 28 Days Later, rather than the lumbering undead hordes of George Romero, which is … Continued
FILMS FROM THE VOID is a journey through junk bins, late night revivals, under seen recesses and reject piles as we try to find forgotten gems and lesser known classics. Join us as we lose our minds sorting through the strange, the sleazy, the sincere and the slop from the past and try to make sense
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In their last batch of releases, the fine folks at restoration and reissue label Vinegar Syndrome dropped three films from director Roberta Findlay: a double-feature disc with the Satanic shocker, Prime Evil, and strange haunting flick, Lurkers, along with her âtribute to Repulsion,â A Womanâs Torme
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Anthology films are nothing new to horror cinema. The story collection format has been a hallmark of the genre, going all the way back to Paul Leniâs 1924 silent film, Waxworks. Leniâs film helped set the template for what viewers have come to expect from the horror anthology: a framing device helps set up the & Continued
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At this point in his career, actor William Shatner needs no introduction. But one can nevertheless take pleasure in recapping: We are talking about the or...
Listing all of the films made by director Larry Cohen would be pages long, and if you added in the number of TV show episodes, it'd be pages and pages past that. Even if you were to distill it down to the number of Blu-Ray reissues over the last few years, it would be absurdly lengthy. Suffice it to
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