Loron Hays

Bad Acting. Bad dialogue. Bad movie, right? Not quite. There are exceptions. The Majorettes , starring Kevin Kindlin, Terrie Godfrey, Mark Jevicky, and Thomas E. Desrocher, is one of those. This psych...
Marvel Studios continues to hammer out one successful movie after another. Their meteoric rise seems damn near unstoppable. With a trusted formula for heroics, heart, and comedy firmly in hand, the st...
Never fear, Doc Savage is here! With that joyous announcement, one of the campiest flicks to ever hit the 1970s leaps off the screen and into the hearts and minds of cinephiles everywhere. Let’s get s...
With funding provided by the Packard Humanities Institute, the members of the UCLA Film & Television Archive have worked tirelessly to restore a small black-and-white crime potboiler that was thought...
Forget the grandma crawling on the ceiling. The absolute BEST scene in The Exorcist III happens about halfway through the picture. A killer is loose. We have a static shot of a hospital hallway. Clean...
Zombie is not finished with Halloween just yet, Boils and Ghouls. Rob Zombie’s 31 is not nearly as good as you’ll want it to be. It’s also not as bad as other critics are suggesting it is. The film do...
“Get me off this FUCKING show,” mutters one contestant on the television game show Live or Die. With contests like Dance of the Seven Boners and one involving transporting two heavy gas canisters thro...
The flash of neon. The absorbing synths. The resounding thump of the bass. Nerve is more than a movie; it is an interactive realm of total absorption. Classifying its audience into two parts, Nerve is...
Reputation Road, here we come! With that sentence, a young man’s wildest sexual fantasies come true. Overlooking Los Angeles from high in the hills, Kyle’s (Steven Boggs) attempts to get laid finally...
Now, THIS is how you successfully pull off a B-movie. The Waxwork series of movies - Waxwork & Waxwork II: Lost in Time – were made during a very special time in the horror genre, all thanks to the vi...
Armed with a healthy dose of much needed restraint, director Mike Flanagan ( Oculus ) and co-writer Jeff Howard collaborate to save Ouija: Origin of Evil from the haunting lows of its predecessor. It’...
When Canadians do horror, good things tend to happen. The Pit , directed by Lew Lehman, is a great example of that statement. Released in 1981, this low budget horror film tells the tale of a weird ki...
There are few moments in the 1980’s output of horror titles as effective as the opening minutes of Tom Holland’s Child’s Play . Serial-killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), wearing a righteous brown t...
To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie . It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by...
I am not a huge fan of Horror maestro Wes Craven. I tend to check out of the whole adoration club when the discussion turns to his most recent offerings. Yes, Scream included. I just think that, of al...