I had a choice to make recently between watching the 1958 The Blob or the 1988 remake thereof. Obviously I ended up going with the original. I’m not nearly as anti-remake as a lot of folks are; I recognize that across Hollywood’s history, there have been several great remade movies. And some have even surpassed the originals! But for this instance, I was following my … Continue reading The Blob (1958) Review
Honey Bunch is a relatively new outing featured on Shudder that I had kept passing over for several days due to reasons I will get into in the Ups and Downs. It just kind of sat there on the New Releases screen if I scrolled enough to the right on the AMC+ home page. And I’d look at it, and I’d hem and haw, and … Continue reading Honey Bunch Review
I recently had the good fortune to be invited to New York Comic Con as press, so I packed up and headed to New York (actually New Jersey because riding the ferry rules) for a long weekend away. I met up with the incomparable Joey DiCarlo and Aubrey Litchfield from So Wizard Podcast, we set about interviewing as many amazing talents as we could for their … Continue reading New York Comic Con 2025: The Video Interview Collection!
Filmhub has announced the official US digital release of Jeremy Schuetze’s found footage feature Anacoreta. Following a festival run and debut in Canada, Anacoreta debuts on digital platforms February 24 in the US. Anacoreta screened at the Heartland International Film Festival, where it won Best Horror, and the Manchester Film Festival, where the team took home Best International Feature. Found Footage Movies remain a pretty … Continue reading Anacoreta Review
It’s Friday The 13th! Didn’t we just have one of these? I want to do an article ranking the best (read: my favorite) horror franchises, but as it is, it would be so hard to do. We’ll see if that’s where we end up going. The problem, you see, is that there are several horror franchises where I have only seen some of the movies. … Continue reading Thirteen The Fridayth: Best Horror Franchises
The Corpus Grimoire part 5 (finale) Mano took Grace down an alley to a side door. “Can you break it down?” he asked. She raised her hand and concentrated. A blast of dark energy shot out and the door fell inside. Wasting no time, Mano took her hand and rushed her into the shadowy building. The room was dark and their eyes hadn’t yet adjusted … Continue reading AP Productions: Winghaven #45
I’m bad at acknowledging the 1960’s–much less anything before the 1960’s!–ever happened. Which, honestly, is pretty generous of me! I was born in 1980, so I don’t even have any tangible proof that the 1970’s happened either, but I’ve decided to allow them into my thinking. I used to be relatively anti-The-1970’s, but I have since realized the 1960’s is where I actually hold most … Continue reading Thirteen The Fridayth: 2020’s Horror
The Corpus Grimoire Part 4 The Corpus Grimoire had nearly fallen into legend. Often associated with the affluent Rusnak family, stories of the spell book were passed on over the centuries as a supremely powerful weapon that eventually claimed the lives of all who used it. The Rusnak family had long-ago converted to Christianity and renounced witchcraft and it was believed the book was sold … Continue reading AP Productions: Winghaven #44
I just recently, as of this writing, passed one hundred movies released in 2025 watched. In that hundred films, I’ve obviously seen a lot of movies in theaters and that were big, major releases (Predator: Badlands was officially #100, for instance), but you don’t get to that figure without finding a lot of independent flicks on streaming services. When you watch a lot of indie … Continue reading Don’t Log Off Review
The Corpus Grimoire Part 3 The Carpathian warlock sat in his grotto with a lit candle casting light on the leather bound book. He followed a belief system that predated Christianity in that area and, in his practice, communing with harmful spirits was unwise. The three shadowy beings that gave him the book seemed to be such spirits. And yet, the book was enticing. Holding … Continue reading AP Productions: Winghaven #43
I need to watch more of the classic Universal Horror features from the 1930’s through 1950’s. I’ve seen a handful of them, sure, but there are several more out there. For instance, I have skipped The Mummy and The Phantom Of The Opera because I had heard they didn’t quite measure up to the rest. But maybe I’ll dig them anyway when I try them … Continue reading Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Review
The Corpus Grimoire part 2 Alysa Saraki stood outside a dark, four story complex that no longer had any living residences. The asylum was originally built in a Kirkbride style, with narrow halls, long wings that spread out like a bat, and high ceilings to allow movement among patients and staff, but when it was remodeled in the 50s, it was flattened out and sterilized … Continue reading AP Productions: Winghaven #42
I love ranking franchises! Even bad franchises. And I think that’s what shocked me the most after my recent watch of the entire Alien franchise: it’s not particularly good! Whereas many of the classic horror franchises I’ve ranked to this point (your Halloweens and your Friday The 13ths and your Child’s Plays, etc) tend to have a roller coaster like experience of highs and lows, … Continue reading Ranking The Franchise: Alien
The Corpus Grimoire part 1 Prologue It was a little known fact that spirits and demons had vaguely-defined territories on Earth, mostly centered within their own belief systems. This was to prevent war among them. For instance, Hell’s demons often resided in Christian-centered regions of the world, the Jinn usually stayed in Islamic regions, and the Oni usually inhabited the archipelago most modern humans called … Continue reading AP Productions: Winghaven #41
Let’s get this straight out of the way because it really matters to this review and will come up again as I talk about Chain Reactions: I’m far from the world’s biggest fan of the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (Now Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, that’s a different story. I kind of love that movie) To be absolutely fair, I’ve only seen the 1974 horror classic … Continue reading Chain Reactions Review
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