Loron Hays

I have to ask you this. Do you believe in God? You’re going to need that faith in order to survive this one, brothers and sisters. The Darkness is a dull ride through familiar roads with actors and ac...
Written and directed by Larry Cohen ( The Stuff ), Black Caesar is essentially a remake of 1931’s Little Caesar with Edward G. Robinson. To its credit; however, Cohen’s film has enough stylized action...
The odds were not in Easy Rider 's favor. Coming off of Roger Corman's The Wild Angels and the Jack Nicholson-penned The Trip , Peter Fonda was digging his heels into the counterculture scene. He and...
Jeremy Saulnier returns. The writer and director of the crowdfunded and critically acclaimed Blue Ruin strikes fear into moviegoers and color aficionados with Green Room, a tension-filled horror film...
Death Becomes Her is, ironically enough, getting a much longer shelf life than ever expected. After suffering from abysmally dismissive reviews at the time of its release, the black comedy is now cele...
Rudy Ray Moore is not an actor. He is not a master of Kung Fu either. He isn't even a pimp but his stand-up comedy took a legendary turn when he adopted the persona of Dolemite and started hilariously...
The Zero Boys is a forgotten entry in the horror genre. While it has the abandoned cabin in the woods and a group of horny teenagers out looking for a good evening of fun, The Zero Boys throws togethe...
Sssssss is a magnificent B-movie whose appreciation starts with the fact that you actually have to hiss its title. It is a mad scientist movie about snakes; real snakes mind you. I can’t stress that a...
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part Two continues to divide people. I guess that’s how you know you might be onto to something really side-splitting and NEW. The ONLY way you can follow a classic of the...
It begins in the snow. In a dramatic shot, a Stetson-wearing worker discovers a thick white substance bubbling up from the ground. Giant flanks of snow pepper his old face. He approaches it silently....
Miles Davis was a man of many, many complications. If anything else, that’s the wild takeaway from writer and director Don Cheadle’s impressionistic film about the world’s coolest trumpeter. Miles Ahe...
Arrow Video has simply outdone themselves with the blu-ray release of the first sequel to Stuart Gordon's hit horror-comedy Re-Animator. Seriously, stop reading this RIGHT NOW and go grab a copy of Br...
Because, you know, it takes a village FULL of idiots to help make and then TAKE a movie away from John Carpenter WHILE he's editing it. John Carpenter's Village of the Damned is due for some appreciat...
There have been many adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story, but I have to admit that Lucio Fulci’s film is probably the most uneven of the batch. That’s not saying his take on The Black...
Born to Be Blue is the film in which Ethan Hawke goes for the extraordinary and more than saves what is largely a pedestrian experience. It is the story of Chet Baker turned junkie and the lengths he...