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Details: Created: 20 October 2018; Published: 20 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Hammer Films shakes off the cobwebs with Dracula A.D. 1972, their funkiest flick to date. Never their best effort, this baptism of the walking dead is certainly entertaining in its effort to resurrect the original “Bat” man. And our first glimpse of Christopher Lee resurrected ...

Details: Created: 20 October 2018; Published: 20 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s time to go APE! Producer Jack H. Harris, with his long stretch of AWESOME and INFLUENTIAL monster movies, created quite the underground movement in cinema. B-movie after B-movie came following in the wake of his successes ...

Details: Created: 19 October 2018; Published: 19 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Lewd! Rude! Gutted and STEWED! Because you can't look away!!! There are still lifeforms living in the jungles of New Guinea that we know nothing about. New species are routinely being discovered, too. To suggest that there it an unknown tribe of cannibals living ...

Details: Created: 19 October 2018; Published: 19 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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The esteemed work of celebrated producer/director Dan Curtis (The Night Stalker, The Night Strangler) continues to roll out on blu-ray thanks to the fine 4K remastering efforts of Kino Lorber Studio Classics. This week’s release tackles an anthology that, once seen ...

Details: Created: 13 October 2018; Published: 13 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Who needs booze when you have practical gore effects as nasty as the ones on display in this nonstop party?! Writer/director James Riffel (Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Terror) made a masterpiece for ...

Details: Created: 13 October 2018; Published: 13 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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In which the showman, with spotlights and all, actually becomes the show. I hold William Castle with high regard when it comes to horror. Entertaining as hell, he could always be relied on to create an atmosphere with his many films. Audiences are only now just ...

Details: Created: 12 October 2018; Published: 12 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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There’s a spot on the wall. It wasn’t there before. You move closer. What is it? And so, you move even closer. Closer still. And then the spot moves. It’s an eye! Someone is inside the house. Holy shit, man. Screaming and running away are the only choices! ...

Details: Created: 11 October 2018; Published: 11 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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Hot peppers! An abandoned Nazi bunker…in California! Horny hog mutants! And two assassins with time on their hands! An Hour to Kill has it all! Knowing that, it is the story about a biker bowling team on the hunt for “hogs” to pork ...

Details: Created: 10 October 2018; Published: 10 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s been eleven long years since I first saw this horror film and, yeah, I am still talking about it. Why? Because it’s THAT good and it turns out that there are still people out there who are virgins to its twisted tales of morbidity. And now Scream Factory gives us a ...

Details: Created: 09 October 2018; Published: 09 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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“Blessed be the New Founders! Blessed be the new America!” The Tea Party, born out of frustration from having their conservative voices and agenda ignored, are now in power. What a difference five long years make! When the original film was made ...