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Details: Created: 14 October 2021; Published: 14 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s time once again to hop in the WAY BACK MACHINE and go . . . way back to another age of Hollywood HIGHS and HORROR! Pre-Code Hollywood fascinates me. There are a lot of grand and wonderful films reflecting the true culture of the time period from 1930 – 1934. Man, it must ...

Details: Created: 12 October 2021; Published: 12 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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A cure for a virus has some serious consequences, especially when Dead Space is involved! It’s big and its bad attitude gives it the upper hand in this . . . remake of a rip-off?! Yup. There is an interesting cut which happens early in Fred Gallo’s Dead Space, a remake of Roger Corman’s ...

Details: Created: 10 October 2021; Published: 10 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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There is an easy but irreverent joke in the title of Elvira’s Haunted Hills. Figure it out and actually laugh out loud and you will easily enjoy this throwback trope-utilizing flick. Oh, it’s corny lowbrow horror escapism, complete with secret passageways and family curses, but fans of Elvira aren’t ...

Details: Created: 08 October 2021; Published: 08 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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“Stop filling your head with all that useless trivia!” Fade to Black lives on the fringes of cinema fanaticism. This slasher celebrates the gray areas in life, where fantasy and reality come crashing together, as one young cinephile takes matters into his own hands and takes down all ...

Details: Created: 07 October 2021; Published: 07 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Children shouldn’t play with spears. End of story. There’s something EVIL bubbling just under the soil on this cursed farmland in Texas. What it is though isn’t exactly too thrilled that this family has arrived. Just witness the burning of the wooden oil pump as a young boy ...

Details: Created: 06 October 2021; Published: 06 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Death by trouser snake! With a ripe sense of eeriness kicking about its engines, The Lamp (aka The Outing) begins deep in the past as a daughter watches her mother hopelessly die at the hands of a murderous Jinn. We are in Galveston, Texas circa 1893 to be precise ...

Details: Created: 05 October 2021; Published: 05 October 2021; Written by Emily Strong

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“That’s the one thing I’ve learned about clients. Dead ones don’t pay their bills.” Famed scientist and cheesemaker John Hay Forrest has died driving off of a cliff. It seems to be suicide, but the daughter of the noted man, Juliet Forrest (Rachael Ward) suspects something else: murder ...

Details: Created: 01 October 2021; Published: 01 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Ending up in a ditch with a flat tire and no spare is just the beginning of Sue Ellen, Patty, Cindy and Rose’s problems in the regional thriller Shallow Grave ...

Details: Created: 30 September 2021; Published: 30 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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You can slice 'em and dice 'em any which way you want to, but they simply don't make movies like this anymore! No budget? No problem, when done correctly! Just ask Deke Slater, the man thought responsible for the killings at Tall Grass Country Club ...

Details: Created: 28 September 2021; Published: 28 September 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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“I’m the master of the ghost ship!” Come for the zombie in the Nazi uniform killing random people and stay for the nonstop hilarity as director Bernard Launois gives audiences a wild tasting slice of French horror pie in Devil Story, his first and last horror film. This is a Z-grade movie where ...