Here’s a link (which may be broken, so you can also search for it on the Herald site under “In praise of Asian film exploitation”) to a story that ran in the Calgary Herald yesterday, in which I was quoted about Asian horror films. The story was a tie-in to the Calgary International Film Festival, [...]

 
 
Well, TIFF has wrapped and with it Midnight Madness. As always, programmer Colin Geddes dropped a variety of genre films on the late night masses, including Acolytes, from Australian director Jon Hewitt. Jon answers seven questions about his kids ‘n’ serial killers movie, including the real-life events that inspired the film.
 
 
1. In your mind, what [...]

Got the following email today from the crew at Icons of Fright, announcing that they’ve rectified the lack of a director’s commentary on the new 20th anniversary Child’s Play DVD release. And they’ve done it for free. Nice work, guys!
 
Download it here.
 
 

Fellow fiends -
Last week, MGM put out the CHILD’S PLAY DVD as a new special [...]

Royal Flush Magazine, Comahead2 and Sal from Electric Frankenstein present the biggest and best Rock & Roll Poster exhibit ever to hit NYC!
Posters and artwork will be on display from the sordid likes of:
Tara McPherson
Drew Friedman
Jesse Philips
Matt Siren
Josh Bernstein
Steve Chanks
Erik Rodriguez
Angryblue
Yours truly and many more!!
Music will be provided by Martin Atkins (Ministry, PiL, Pigface).
Open Bar! Free books [...]

And fans of The Walking Dead.
So excellent…

While we’re bustin’ rocks on the Halloween issue, The Toronto International Film Festival has started. As per usual, we’re too busy to see much until Tuesday, but we did check out Deadgirl last night, and I managed to take in a screening of Fabrice Du Welz’s new film, Vinyan, which is gorgeous, if slow and [...]

Rue Morgue proudly sponsors the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, and they’ve got a new trailer of coming attractions. Check it, fools!