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They Live Inside Us - Movie Review

Details: Published: 14 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Because something haunts us all. That’s why They Live Inside Us matters this Halloween season. Independently made and clever with its use of twists and turns, this horror film - inspired by the success of The Witching Season - is definitely a “must see” as the creativity, the practical effects ...

Lost Girls & Love Hotels - Movie Review

Details: Published: 16 October 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What do you call an erotic drama that is neither erotic nor particularly all that dramatic? In the case of the new film from filmmaker William Olsson (An American Affair) called Lost Girls & Love Hotels, you call it boring. ...

Abbott & Costello The Complete Universal Pictures Collection: Hold That Ghost (1941) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 13 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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“I know what happens in those mystery pictures! A guy walks over to a perfectly ordinary door he opens it up and - ZOWIE! - out falls a body right on its kisser!” And, of course, a body falls to the ground! When it comes to getting the tone of horror comedies right, you have to sometimes go ...

Abbott & Costello The Complete Universal Pictures Collection: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 12 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Sandra! Junior? SANDRA! Junior? SAAAANNNNNDRA! Having successfully stolen the show in 1941’s One Night in the Tropics, the comedy duo of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello - who were big on radio but untested on film - were quickly signed by Universal Pictures ...

Monochrome: The Chromism - Movie Review

Details: Published: 12 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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It is a bleak future that awaits us. We already know this, yet most of us have refused to accept it. To help us navigate these dark waters, we need to turn only to our creativity to find a path forward. Writer/Director Kodi Zene and Producer Lozen Fükem offer one solution with the opening chapter of ...

Curse of the Undead (1959) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 11 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Hi-yo, Silver . . . . Bullet, away! Arriving just in time for our quarantined Halloween is Curse of the Undead, an oft neglected B-grade horror/western about a vampiric gunfighter (played by Michael Pate, Hondo) and the trouble he kicks up when he arrives in a small town and falls for ...

Friday the 13th Collection: Deluxe Edition (1980 - 2009) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 09 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma. Two repeating syllables is all it takes to conjure up memories of pure evil slashing away at fleshy objects in the night. I know we fans of Friday the 13th and its many incarnations have been burnt before by subsequent releases of these films, but Scream Factory - issuing ALL the films together with love, care, and respect - have seriously come through with their latest release the Friday the 13th Collection ...

Tales for the Campfire 3 - Movie Review

Details: Published: 08 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Dark Infinity and genre filmmaker Dustin Ferguson (who is comparable only to Roger Corman when it comes to impressive B-movie offerings) have yet another horror hit on their hands with the FIVE terrifying stories absolutely crawling and clawing their way through the innards of Tales for the Campfire 3 ...

Monster Force Zero - Movie Review

Details: Published: 07 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s Monster Force Zero vs. The Destroyers of Destruction to see who has what it takes to save the world from Doctor Eeche (Rachel Darden) in this intergalactic battle of the ages! That’s right, in this fun comedy which throws elements of The Last Starfighter and ...

The Last Exorcist - Movie Review

Details: Published: 06 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Considering just how wild and out there The Last Exorcist begins, it should come as no surprise that Danny Trejo is involved in this horror film from Uncork’d Entertainment. While I wish he were in it more, he definitely makes the film a bit more memorable ...