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...
by William J. Wright | Jun 26, 2025 | Audio Horror
HORRORBABBLE’S WEREWOLVES AND DOG MEN: “The Dogman of Fangdale Beck” by Ian Gordon By WILLIAM J. WRIGHT RUE MORGUE’s latest collaboration with purveyors of weird audio fiction, HorrorBabble, is a snarling, spine-tingling descent into the world...
by Michael Gingold | Jun 25, 2025 | Interviews
Exclusive Interview: Gerard Johnstone on exploring AI, keeping things practical and more on “M3GAN 2.0” By MICHAEL GINGOLD After M3GAN became a sleeper hit in 2022, it was inevitable that the living doll would be back in a sequel. But M3GAN 2.0, opening Friday from...
by Rue Morgue Manor | Jun 24, 2025 | Exclusives, Interviews
Exclusive Interview: Mother Of Rage – Jodie Comer On Her Heart-Wrenching Role In “28 YEARS LATER” By RICK HIPSON Now showing in theatres everywhere, 28 YEARS LATER is the third installment in the rage-infected zombie franchise that began with 2002’s...
