Horror
Dead Season
The seemingly endless torrent of direct-to-disc zombie films continues unabated, and Dead Season is one of the latest horrors to make its way to the DVD players of horror fans looking for diamonds in the rough. On the one hand, Dead Season doesn’t really offer anything that die-hard genre fans haven’t seen before. On the [...]
Girls Gone Dead
There’s a fine line between satirizing the exploitation of something like Girls Gone Wild and becoming that which is supposedly being satirized. In other words, when your film has nearly as many scenes of topless debauchery and lipstick lesbianism as an actual Girls Gone Wild video, it may be time to reconsider your approach. This [...]
Midnight Son
Vampires are so hot right now, sometimes it’s hard to remember that they really belong to the horror genre. With Twilight bringing massive popularity to bloodsuckers on a scale never before seen, many horror fans are left out in the cold. This dichotomy is nothing new, though– the clash between the romantic and monstrous vampire [...]
You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Kills You
Mention the concept of a “black horror” film and a handful of titles are likely to come to the mind of horror fans: Blacula, Sugar Hill, Def by Temptation, and anthologies like Tales from the Hood and the recent Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror are probably the best-known films in this unfortunately sparse subgenre. While [...]
Some Guy Who Kills People
Kevin Corrigan is very likely a familiar face to many film fans, even if they don’t know him by name. He’s appeared in dozens of films and television shows, one of those character actors whose appearance on screen is happily greeted with “Hey, it’s That Guy!” And so it makes some sense that the promotional [...]
Exit Humanity
If there is any one thing sorely lacking in modern horror genre cinema as a whole, it is ambition. With a few notable examples that pop up each year, most horror films in general– and zombie films in particular– are happy to keep grinding away at the same story beats, with the same few characters, [...]
Blood Rites
Lincoln, Nebraska may not be on the map for most horror fans, but Dorothy Booraem is out to change that. Her debut feature, Wake the Witch, was an interesting indie horror film memorable for a number of reasons, most prominent of which was its overabundance of ideas and the fact that it was shot in [...]
House of Ghosts
Minnesota-based filmmaker Christopher Mihm is back with his latest homage to classic horror/sci-fi cinema, his seventh feature and first straight-up horror film. House of Ghosts is a tribute to the master of the “gimmick” horror film, William Castle. Mihm has patterned House of Ghosts on such Castle classics as 13 Ghosts and House on Haunted [...]
Monster Brawl
When I was a kid, I was really into monsters. I had a friend who was really into WWF wrestling. If Monster Brawl had existed back then, we would probably have watched it a million times. That really tells you about all you need to know about Monster Brawl: if you’re really into monsters and [...]
The Collapsed
A note to independent filmmakers: when you’re planning your film’s score, MIDI strings are never the answer. This is a good bit of advice for filmmakers of any type, but genre filmmakers seem particularly enamored of this type of scoring. There are a number of legitimate ways to mask your film’s low-budget nature, but substituting [...]
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