Bone Tomahawk is a traditional western to its core. The archetypes and themes are all present: bandits, savage natives, a virtuous sheriff, his loyal backup deputy, a stalwart cowboy, a fancy gentleman and a damsel in distress. Hell, there’s even a tired old drunk piano player in the town’s only saloon, with the unmistakable character […]
ListenWhen George Romero released his cult classic Night of the Living Dead in 1968, he unleashed hordes of copycat movies throughout the ’70s and ’80s. Italy was home to many of these copycat zombie films which have since become cult classics themselves. Hell of the Living Dead Released in 1980, Hell of the Living Dead […]
ListenLast night was Friday, and Friday nights are my time to stay up late after everyone else has gone to bed, and watch my stories. My scary stories. So on this Friday evening I popped in “The Invoking 2” from RLJ Entertainment, which was just released on the sixth of this month. Did I enjoy […]
ListenValentine’s Day has become a commercialized romantic explosion of hearts, teddy bears, and chocolates. The commercials on TV become increasingly sappy and cringe inducing for those who are more cynical about this time of year, and the onslaught of romantic comedies airing on TV is enough to drive even the most rational person a bit […]
ListenThe October Society is a brain trust of some of the best talents working in horror cinema today. 11 directors (Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Adam Gierasch, Andrew Kasch, Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Dave Parker, Ryan Schifrin, John Skipp, and Paul Solet) cram 10 short films into a 90 minute feature all set […]
ListenShivers Down Your Spine is a 125 minute horror-comedy anthology feature film cobbled together from three previously released short films (plus seven new shorts) from Dead Lantern Pictures. Directed by Mathew Kister and written by several contributing writers including Tony Crumpton, Lisa Kovanda, and Chuck Mittan, the feature is clearly a labor of love. The shorts […]
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