A die-hard life-long horror and science-fiction buff, the late Forrest J. “Forry” Ackerman was in many ways the kind of fan that every person who writes about genre movies – myself included – aspires to be. Starting the iconic magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland in the late 1950s, Ackerman became a leading voice in the …
If you didn’t know any better, and you stepped into forensic dentist Dr. Alejandro Hernández Cárdenas’ lab in the city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, you’d likely be quite horrified by what you saw, and convinced that the doctor was up to no good. Because it’s not teeth that Cárdenas has become known for working with, …
I’ll never forget the first time I attended a horror convention. It was Maryland’s annual HorrorFind Weekend event, in August of 2005. I was 19 years old, with my dad by my side. And neither of us had any idea what we were getting into… in the very best of ways. Though horror conventions were …
Earlier this week, we took a look at five upcoming documentaries we should all be excited about. While those docs were all about specific horror movies and franchises, today we’re here to talk about documentaries that are all about us; the fans. It is the horror fans that keep this genre alive and kickin’, and …
The past few years have seen the birth and rise of fan-made documentaries about iconic horror films, docs like Never Sleep Again, Crystal Lake Memories and More Brains: A Return to the Living Dead digging a whole lot deeper into our favorite movies than your typical DVD bonus features ever possibly could. It’s a trend …
I must be honest about something before we begin with this post. Truth be told, I’ve gotten pretty damn tired of everyone’s Kickstarter campaigns and Indiegogo funds – it seems that everyone’s got one, and it also seems that they’re always hounding me to donate and spread the word. It just gets a little annoying …
