by Scott Feinblatt | Jan 2, 2024 | Exclusives, Music
CONCERT REVIEW: SKINNY PUPPY REACHES THE END OF THE ROAD Text and photos by SCOTT FEINBLATT It’s the end of an era (or the end of several eras – if you wanna get technical). Industrial music pioneers Skinny Puppy, who first rose to underground prominence in the early...
by Grace Detwiler | Jan 2, 2024 | News
Dana Kippel’s New Age Thriller “REFLECT” Manifests on VOD Next Week On VOD on January 9, see the North American release of Cranked Up Films’ REFLECT, the feature film debut of writer/director/star Dana Kippel. The sci-fi metaphysical thriller follows...
by Michael Gingold | Jan 2, 2024 | News
The inevitable Mickey Mouse/“STEAMBOAT WILLIE” horror films are coming By MICHAEL GINGOLD Walt Disney is no doubt spinning in his…wait, let’s not give moviemakers any more ideas… With STEAMBOAT WILLIE, the 1928 Disney cartoon that introduced Mickey Mouse, entering the...
by Michael Gingold | Jan 2, 2024 | News
J.R. Bookwalter’s medical shocker “SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY” releases trailer, sets roadshow theatrical dates By MICHAEL GINGOLD The indie horror veteran is taking his comeback movie nationwide. Tempe Digital has announced that SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY (which we first told...
by Michael Gingold | Dec 28, 2023 | Fantasia International Film Festival, Reviews
2023 in Review: The Best Horror Shorts from Fantasia! By MICHAEL GINGOLD Last week, I ran my choices for the best horror features of 2023–a very good year for the genre. There were a whole bunch of fine scary short movies too, and many of them were part of the...
by Michael Gingold | Dec 26, 2023 | Exclusives, News
Exclusive “IN FROM OUTSIDE” teaser serves up a diner of death By MICHAEL GINGOLD There’s supernatural terror on the menu in the new Canadian fright film. Director Dan Walton (AMERICAN CONJURING, one of the executive producers of GUTTERBALLS) gave us the first look at...
by Michael Gingold | Dec 26, 2023 | News
Korean teen shocker “THE HUMAN TRAP” sets U.S. release date; trailer & poster By MICHAEL GINGOLD Don’t go in the woods–especially when they’re inhabited by a crazed doctor. Cinephobia has announced that it will bring the South Korean horror film THE HUMAN TRAP...
by Michael Gingold | Dec 26, 2023 | News
Wanna be killed in “CIRCUS OF THE DEAD 2”? Here’s your chance! By MICHAEL GINGOLD The evil clowns are back, and you could be one of their victims. Writer/director Billy “Bloody Bill” Pon has CIRCUS OF THE DEAD 2, the sequel to his 2014 funnyman frightfest (pictured),...
by Michael Gingold | Dec 26, 2023 | News
“AMSTERDAMNED II” is in the works from returning director and star; first poster By MICHAEL GINGOLD The sequel to the Dutch psychochiller hit is coming for its titular city’s 750th anniversary. Veteran genre filmmaker Dick Maas (THE LIFT, SINT a.k.a. SAINT NICK, PREY...
by Rue Morgue Manor | Dec 26, 2023 | Interviews
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ACTOR DAVID KEITH DISCUSSES HIS ROLE IN THE REVENGE THRILLER “WALDEN” By BETHANY LAKE Revenge thrillers run the gamut from the well-made and thought-provoking (The Virgin Spring, Unforgiven), to grindhouse sleaze (I Spit On Your Grave, Thriller: A...
