by Michael Gingold | Jul 3, 2025 | Exclusives, Fantasia International Film Festival, News
Exclusive trailer and poster: Troma documentary “OCCUPY CANNES,” world-premiering at Fantasia By MICHAEL GINGOLD The maverick B-movie outfit invades one festival in a movie now poised for unveiling at another. OCCUPY CANNES will have its world premiere on Thursday,...
by Kevin Hoover | Jul 3, 2025 | Books, Exclusives
EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Jess Hagemann’s “MOTHER-EATING” Releases October 28th By KEVIN HOOVER Texas-based publisher Ghoulish Books, whose catalog of horror titles has been stoking the fever dream fires of readers whose literary tastes skew more...
by William J. Wright | Jul 2, 2025 | Audio Horror
HORRORBABBLE’S WEREWOLVES AND DOG MEN Concludes With “The Girdle” by Joseph McCord 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 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...
