by Michael Gingold | Oct 18, 2024 | Interviews
Exclusive Interview: Screenwriter Ian McDonald puts a human face on a horrifying serial-killer case with “WOMAN OF THE HOUR” By MICHAEL GINGOLD The saga of serial killer Rodney Alcala is one of the most shocking in the annals of true crime, and had one major facet...
by Michael Gingold | Oct 16, 2024 | Reviews
Movie Review: Grin and scare it with “SMILE 2” By MICHAEL GINGOLD Starring Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt and Lukas GageWritten and directed by Parker FinnParamount The first SMILE made such great use of a simple freeze-your-blood gambit (which was right there in the...
by Michael Gingold | Oct 16, 2024 | News
Get some Happy Fright from CA film festival this weekend By MICHAEL GINGOLD Screen terrors old and new will bring the fear to the two-day event. This Friday-Saturday, October 18-19, the Mutant City Horror podcast and award-winning filmmaker Sean Haitz team up with...
by Rue Morgue Manor | Oct 15, 2024 | Reviews
MOVIE REVIEW: “MOTHER NOCTURNA” is a Beautiful and Atmospheric Slow Burn Starring Susanna Costaglione, Sofia Ponente and Edoardo OlivaWritten and directed by Daniele CampeaBuffalo 8 Productions By BRANDON GIL Daniele Campea’s slow burn, MOTHER NOCTURNA, joins the...
by Chris Hallock | Oct 15, 2024 | Reviews
MOVIE REVIEW: The Late Shelley Duvall Returns in Grisly but Uneven “THE FOREST HILLS” Starring Shelley Duvall, Edward Furlong and Dee WallaceDirected by Scott GoldbergWritten by Scott Goldberg and Scott B. HansenMy Way Pictures By CHRIS HALLOCK Soundly executed...
by Michael Gingold | Oct 15, 2024 | Blu-ray/DVD, Exclusives, News
Exclusive clip: “TRICK ’R TREAT” 4K restoration, coming from Arrow Video By MICHAEL GINGOLD The Halloween horror favorite is looking even sharper this season. Arrow Video releases Michael Dougherty’s cult classic TRICK ’R TREAT on Ultra HD disc October 29, with a...
by Michael Gingold | Oct 15, 2024 | News
Exclusive clip: An experiment turns deadly in “QUANTUM SUICIDE” By MICHAEL GINGOLD Scientific obsession has severe consequences in the sci-fi thriller releasing this week. Buffalo 8 releases QUANTUM SUICIDE, written and directed by Gerrit Van Woundenberg, to VOD and...
by Michael Gingold | Oct 14, 2024 | News, Toys
Glass Eye Pix releases three different Wendigo figures from Larry Fessenden films By MICHAEL GINGOLD Now you can own totems of the folkloric creature that has become a regular in the New York auteur’s work. Glass Eye Pix has announced the release of a limited run of a...
by Kevin Hoover | Oct 13, 2024 | Exclusives
Exclusive Interview: Dana Gould Discusses the Beautiful Ineptness of “PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE” By KEVIN HOOVER Nowhere else but in the confines of cinema do the distinctions of “best in class” and “worst ever” function in such sweet synchronicity. One, a...
by Rue Morgue | Oct 11, 2024 | Reviews
Movie Review: Have yourself a queasy little Christmas with “TERRIFIER 3” By KEN MICHAELS Starring Lauren LaVera, David Howard Thornton and Antonella RoseWritten and directed by Damien LeoneCineverse In the opening scene of TERRIFIER 3, a little girl thinks she spies...
