Loron Hays

A genuine classic of the long running Doctor Who BBC series has finally seen the light of day on DVD. Terror of the Zygons remains a terrifying experience of Celtic proportions. Opening its thirteenth...
It’s in the voiceover upon first seeing Hill House; that’s what always sends me over the edge. “It’s staring at me,” says Eleanor Lance (Julie Harris) and, indeed, the house is truly staring at her. T...
Directed by Kimberly Peirce with a screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Carrie is yet another reshaping of Stephen King’s novel that, rather quickly, bites the dust. Hollywood will never learn to lea...
“Blessed be the New Founders! Blessed be the new America!” The Tea Party, born out of frustration from having their conservative voices and agenda ignored, finally have a movie they can offer as proof...
Levon Helm, that backbeat-keepin’ dirt farmer with a very recognizable voice, is still with us. His fans know his struggles with addiction, bankruptcy, and throat cancer but, with the documentary Ain’...
Insanity. Nuns. Aliens. Serial killers. Possession. The Devil. Abortion. And the Holocaust. Is there anything that the second season of American Horror Story doesn’t include? Created by Ryan Murphy an...
Robert Rodriguez’s Mex-ploitation saga continues with the batshit crazy antics highlighted in Machete Kills . While the print critics prematurely hammer nails into the character’s coffin, no amount of...
Oh, Poverty Row and its horror show thrills! The Devil Bat has returned! Starring Bela Lugosi – who was in the middle of a comeback that would soon stall out – The Devil Bat is the ultimate statement...
We've been told to get out already. Allow me, then, to be the first to welcome you back to 112 Ocean Avenue. Scream Factory’s release of all three original Amityville films is, unquestionably, a must-...
The most successful 3D film of the 1950s has finally arrived on Blu-ray. André de Toth’s House of Wax brought Warner Bros a lot of fortune and fame during its original run in 1953 but the film is also...
Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is a masterpiece of sound and vision. It achieves – in a crisp 90 minutes – everything that any filmmaker in love with the medium sets out to achieve. Few attain it and most n...
The bookish virgin. Two selfish friends. The obsessed psychiatrist. A babysitting job on October 31 st . And The Shape. Halloween , masterfully directed by John Carpenter, is considered – some 35 year...
Anthony Perkins’ directorial debut arrives with his third appearance as Norman Bates in Psycho III . While not as sharp as the first sequel to Hitchcock’s classic film, the third in the series proves...
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 filmmaker than most give him credit.Other than the late...
I wonder if, for filmmakers, there could there be anything more terrifying than helming a sequel to a beloved classic film 22 years after the original. Or is such a task just plain stupid and flawed f...