Loron Hays

Operating like a fever dream about some bizarre nightmare in a haunted house, The Beyond – directed by Lucio Fulci – is still considered the director’s masterpiece. This underrated film is still, in m...
You’ve probably already heard the bad word of mouth about Get Hard , kiddos. The critics have spoken. Now, you get your say. Oh, it’s a dumb comedy and full of offensive jabs at almost every living th...
Turn up the schlock, man. The B-movie genre gets elevated with this bucktoothed bloodletting bonanza. Having just seen it, I am here to testify that Zombeavers , a film that is as cracked as its title...
Suddenly, every other horror movie coming out this year now looks better. Thrusting audiences straight into the horror of isolation, Muck takes that GEICO commercial – the one spoofing the horror genr...
Ronald D. Moore, the showrunner who turned a rebooted Battlestar Galactica into a modern classic series, is back again doing what he does best. This time, though, his aim is not for the stars. It’s 17...
Don’t Go In The Woods … Alone! , a cult horror film from 1981, is the attention-grabbing title that always screamed at me to watch when I used to frequent the VHS rental store tucked inside a row of s...
Many years ago, there used to be such a thing as life without reality programming on the television. Call it boring. Call it slow. Call it whatever you want. The fact remains that the medium used to h...
And you thought Jar Jar Binks was annoying. Neill Blomkamp, the director behind the Oscar-nominated District 9 , continues to disappoint in his beloved Science Fiction genre. Having publicly acknowled...
Originally titled The Mask of Satan , Mario Brava’s feature length debut, released here in the United States as Black Sunday , was a gothic-sized hit for Roger Corman’s American International Pictures...
Bringing the dead back to life is tricky business. Director David Gelb (last seen behind the lens of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi ) doesn’t unearth any new treasures with The Lazarus Effect ,...
Roger Corman, famed producer and director of exploitation cinema from the 1950s through the early 1980s, captures the very essence of the biker counterculture years before Easy Rider would the be the...
Writer/director Adam Green is still the horror genre’s independent darling. His Hatchet trilogy kicked up a fair amount of dust among Horrorhounds but it was the Hitchcockian Spiral and the chilling F...
John Candy had Uncle Buck . Bill Murray has St. Vincent . The role of the grizzled and unexpected father figure makes its comeback with the release of Murray’s latest on blu-ray this week. Written and...
A child history buff. Six angry dwarfs spat out from one closet. One hell of an adventure. You guessed it. Time Bandits has returned. Writer/director Terry Gilliam’s classic fairy tale mixes science f...
Matthew Vaughn – the acclaimed director of Layer Cake , Stardust , Kick-Ass , and X-Men: First Class - returns to the comic book-minded genre with the wildly irreverent Kingsman: The Secret Service an...