Reviews

[Blu-ray and DVD]

‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’ Freaky Favorites: Disc One

To surprisingly little fanfare, Season 1 of Nickelodeon’s Canadian TV series Are You Afraid of the Dark? was quietly released onto DVD here in the states last Tuesday, as part of Amazon’s manufacture-on-demand service. The collection was followed up this week by the complete second season, presumably with the others to follow in the coming

[TV]

True Blood Season 7, Episode 2: Recap & Thoughts

True Blood‘s seventh season premiere kinda bored me, which was surprising considering I expected the show to bust out all the stops right out of the gate – this being the final season, and all. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of a momentum pick-up on this past Sunday night’s episode, which I didn’t get the chance

[Bite-sized Horror]

Bleak Britannia: 28 Days Later

In this new series of short, sharp reviews I’m going to take a look at the horror movies that present Britain in a dark and disturbing way. These are the films that have no desire to show you my ‘green and pleasant land’, they just want to spray it red. Danny Boyle’s visually stunning masterpiece

[Reviews]

Movie Review: Uncle Forry’s AckerMansions

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

[Bite-sized Horror]

Bleak Britannia: From Hell

In this new series of short, sharp reviews I’m going to take a look at the horror movies that present Britain in a dark and disturbing way. These are the films that have no desire to show you my ‘green and pleasant land’, they just want to spray it red. Hollywood has always enjoyed making

[Reviews]

Movie Review: Death Bed

As much as I dig it when home video companies give slick new releases to old favorites that we all know and love, I dig it even more when they give that special treatment to lost films from the past, which many of us have never seen or even heard of. Such is the case

[Bite-sized Horror]

Bleak Britannia: Eden Lake

In this new series of short, sharp reviews I’m going to take a look at the horror movies that present Britain in a dark and disturbing way. These are the films that have no desire to show you my ‘green and pleasant land’, they just want to spray it red. The horror to be found

[Reviews]

Movie Review: Torment

A family is terrorized in their remote home by a band of intruders, who just so happen to be wearing some pretty creepy masks. Not only is that the general premise of notable recent films like You’re Next and The Strangers, but it’s also more or less the set-up for every other home invasion film

[Reviews]

Five Things I Love About: Castle Freak

Once upon a time, many moons ago, I hit pay dirt over on eBay, scoring myself a massive lot of horror VHS tapes. As I recall, a list of the films was not included with the auction, as the seller instead decided to show off a few pictures and leave a little bit of that