by Rue Morgue Manor | Jul 2, 2025 | Books, Reviews, Tie-In Me Up Tie-In Me Down
TIE-IN ME UP, TIE-IN ME DOWN: “THE TOXIC AVENGER: THE NOVEL (2006)” is No 98-Pound Weakling By JOEL HARLEY “What the hell is this thing?” ask Lloyd Kaufman and Adam Jahnke in the foreword to their THE TOXIC AVENGER: THE NOVEL. “This is not a novelization....
by Bill Reick | Jun 30, 2025 | Exclusives, Interviews
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: JOE DANTE, Part II – Dante’s Inferno! By BILL REICK Here’s the second half of my hour-long conversation with Joe Dante. He couldn’t have been kinder in answering my scatter-brained questions. It was a real privilege to connect with this...
by Michael Gingold | Jun 30, 2025 | Reviews
Movie Review: The dinos score over a shaky script in “JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH” By MICHAEL GINGOLD Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala AliDirected by Gareth EdwardsWritten by David KoeppUniversal The title of JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH is a bit of a...
by Kevin Hoover | Jun 30, 2025 | Books
New Book Releases for July 2025 By KEVIN HOOVER There are only two places to be during a summer heatwave: either roasting like tanned leather on a tourist-cramped beach or reveling in the cool confines of your local bookstore. Whichever destination is due north on...
by Michael Gingold | Jun 30, 2025 | Exclusives, News
Exclusive photos: Indie slasher film “FINAL ACT” takes a pickax to Pennsylvania By MICHAEL GINGOLD Hannah Fierman (V/H/S, SIREN, BYSTANDERS) stars in this new throwback to ’80s masked-killer flicks. Babe Entertainment, Cannon Fire Productions and Millman Productions...
by Rob Freese | Jun 28, 2025 | Recollections From a Rotting Brain
RECOLLECTIONS FROM A ROTTING BRAIN: CHAS. BALUN AND THE SEARCH FOR THE ULTIMATE CHUNKBLOWER By ROB FREESE Among the many film journalists who made an impact on me when I was a young fan, Chas. Balun always stood out from the rest. His writing was incredibly...
by Michael Gingold | Jun 27, 2025 | Reviews
Movie Review: “M3GAN 2.0” levels off rather than levels up By ROBERT DANVERS Starring Allison Williams, Violet McGraw and Amie Donald & Jenna DavisWritten and directed by Gerard JohnstoneBlumhouse/Atomic Monster/Universal It’s two years later (actually over 28...
by Michael Gingold | Jun 27, 2025 | Exclusives, News
Exclusive: Sci-fi thriller “THE PROTOS EXPERIMENT” sets Los Angeles theatrical premiere with Q&A; new poster By MICHAEL GINGOLD It’s also coming for home viewing this summer. THE PROTOS EXPERIMENT, the new film from Brian Avenet-Bradley and Laurence...
by Michael Gingold | Jun 27, 2025 | Interviews
Exclusive Interviews: Allison Williams and Ivanna Sakhno on the human and inhuman sides of “M3GAN 2.0” By MICHAEL GINGOLD The old and the new combine and collide in M3GAN 2.0, and two of the key players in writer/director Gerard Johnstone’s sequel portray her original...
by Bill Reick | Jun 26, 2025 | Missed Masterpieces, Retrospective
MISSED MASTERPIECES: TRUST IS TERROR IN “LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH” By BILL REICK “The three types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy...
