ALBUM REVIEW: CANADIAN CULT SLASHER “CURTAINS” GETS A SOUNDTRACK RELEASE FROM WAXWORK RECORDS! By JAMES BURRELL Released in the U.S. in 1983, the Canuck cult classic Curtains hit cinemas just as the first slasher film boom of the late 1970s to early ‘80s was coming to...
CRYPTIC COLLECTIBLES: NECA Introduces RETRO GLOW-IN-THE-DARK UNIVERSAL MONSTERS FIGURES! By JAMES BURRELL Back in 1980, a company named Remco released what many toy collectors consider to be one of the greatest monster-themed action figure lines ever made: the...
Evil Comes In Pairs With NECA’s “Puppet Master” Ultimate 2-Pack Figure Sets By JAMES BURRELL Released to video store shelves in the fall of 1989, the direct-to-video cult classic PUPPET MASTER introduced audiences to a group of homicidal marionettes...
Invite Annabelle Into Your Abode With NECA’s “Annabelle Comes Home” Clothed Figure By JAMES BURRELL Director James Wan’s The Conjuring (2013), which depicted the activities of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (played in the...
“They Live” Spinature From Waxwork Records is Here to Kick Ass By JAMES BURRELL A scathing commentary on unfettered consumerism, Regan-era politics, and subjugation of the blue-collar worker, John Carpenter’s 1988 cult classic THEY LIVE was poorly received...
