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Cicada - Movie Review

Details: Published: 16 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Griffith Park. 2001. That’s when and where Cicada, the new horror/comedy from writer/director David Willis, takes place. What follows is yet another win for Wild Eye Releasing and horror/comedy hybrids everywhere as giant insects take flight over Los Angeles and start wrecking ...

Derelicts - Movie Review

Details: Published: 16 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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It was only a matter of time before Thanksgiving got ruined, too, by the Horrid Hounds of Horror who put films together. This time, though, it isn’t by a random knifing. Nor is it from some shady stalkery from a Babysitter Killer who roams the neighborhood in a Kirk mask. No, this chiller ...

Werewolf (2020) - Movie Trailer

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

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Summer, 1945. Eight children from Gross Rosen concentration camp find a provisional hiding place in an abandoned orphanage nearby, lost among forests. It seems that after the horrors of the war feral children may come back ...

War of the Colossal Beast (1958) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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We aren’t in Las Vegas anymore, baby! Written, produced, and directed by Mr. Rear-Projection himself, Bert Gordon (King Dinosaur, Earth vs. the Spider, The Amazing Colossal Man, and Empire of the Ants), War of the Colossal Beast is the ...

How to Make a Monster (1958) - Blu-ray Review

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

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Fans of Paul Blaisdell’s creature work for films like The She-Creature, It Conquered The World, and Invasion of the Saucer Men are going to dig How to Make a Monster as his monster designs get some prime camera time when hung on the walls. Some audiences are going to see ...

Return to Splatter Farm - Movie Review

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

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Beware the barn! Ah, f@#$ it. Enter at your own risk, fools. You’ve been warned. With the smells of rotted wood and autumn leaves hanging in the air, you know that it is time to celebrate serial killing season once more! Hell, we even have a Friday the 13th release for this horror flick ...

All Joking Aside - Movie Review

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

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The first time is always the hardest. That’s what everyone says, isn’t it? And it is true, especially when you are staring into the void of darkness on a stage and all you hear is a lone voice telling you to go someplace else ...

The Retreat - Movie Review

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

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With long and often stirring shots of the mountainous wild, The Retreat - now available to stream thanks to Uncork’d Entertainment - scores BIG with the terror as something waits out in the darkness. We are warned early. We are chilled by the cold. Even the art on the wall sends shivers ...

Shark Encounters of the Third Kind - Movie Review

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

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Alien invaders? Mind control via sharks? Underwater inner monologues? Treasure and babes in bikinis? Shark Encounters of the Close Kind has it all! It even has an abundant amount of gut busting laughs as this comedy takes nothing seriously - even the shark attacks! ...

Let Him Go (2020) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 13 November 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Whether it’s Shelley Winters literally sponge-bathing her sons with motherly attention in Roger Corman’s Bloody Mama, or Jackie Weaver’s “Smurf” gleefully reminding her sons of all the bad things they’ve done in 2010’s Animal Kingdom, there’s just something ghoulishly alluring about ...