Loron Hays

This crime caper about aging criminals is as cozy as a cuppa tea! From the start, Diamond Dogs - directed by Kris Smith - absolutely nails its intentions. The film might not be the smoothest of all he...
Holy Apex Predator Heart Palpitations! With cool practical effects and a wicked sense of humor stomping about it, The Invisible Raptor absolutely explodes on the screen, nailing its vibe and its tone...
Inbred children rise up . . . again! Filmmaker Dustin Ferguson ( Space Sharks ; Mega Ape ; Beyond the Gates of Hell ; Amityville in the Hood ; Zombi VIII: Urban Decay ; Apex Predators ; Ebola Rex vs....
Existential dread has arrived! And, this time, in 4K! Writer/Director John Carpenter must really be a miracle worker. He’s got some serious mojo working in his favor. Or maybe he’s simply a smarter fi...
Live life to the fullest! Set against the backdrop of Tuscany, Sergio Dondoli’s Happy Life offers a joyful, sensory-rich portrait of the world-renowned gelato artisan whose passion for his craft - and...
Joey Miller ’s script for Your Host is brutal and bloodthirsty; loudly clanging the bells of the SAW franchise as gruesome horror gets the greenlight in director DW Medoff ’s film. Your Host is not fo...
Clocking in at a wild 90-min, director and LGBTQ+ champion Mark Schwab ( Brotherly Lies , Exteriors ) returns to the indie scene with Cutaways , a darling comedy that is, at once, oh so very edgy and...
Who’d have thought that vikings in ridiculous costumes could be this endearing?! Certainly no one I know . . . especially if you just gradually tune in and out of this western-inspired adventure. Thro...
Cinematographer Jeremy Benning - providing some of the most gracious details in the Canadian farmland surrounding director R.T. Thorne ’s ( Blindspot , The Porter ) film - knows how to lens the apocal...
“If you would have come in 10 to 15 minutes earlier or later, this just might not of happened." Dark and depraved; that's exactly how independent filmmaker Joe Hollow likes it. Which is why he is back...
“Maybe we didn’t say it right?” No, girls. You said it correctly. And so begins the mirror game as the ghost of Lizzie Borden is summoned by two little girls one dark night. What follows is a bone-chi...
Originally titled The Mask of Satan , Mario Bava’ s feature length debut, released here in the United States as Black Sunday , was a gothic-sized hit for Roger Corman ’s American International Picture...
Directed by Mario Bava ( Planet of Vampires ), Black Sabbath remains an influential horror film. It is, after all, where Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward , and Ozzy Osbourne (who all marveled at t...
Mario Bava ’s thriller, The Girl Who Knew Too Much , is really where the Italian giallo began. Yes, it is borrowing heavily from Hitchcock But there is a breathless agility to its overall mystery that...
If the opening moments of Kill, Baby, Kill aren’t enough to set you on edge, then I suppose nothing else in Mario Bava ’s bloody good movie will either. Move along, kid. There’s literally nothing for...

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