When I was growing up there was a big J-Horror boom. Movies like Versus and Ringu were popular over…
Everyone has their favorite movie in a horror franchise, some of us absolutely adore Friday the 13th VII: The New Blood, some of us think Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is actually the peak of the run, and sometimes we really fight for the Leprechaun 4: In Spaces, the Jason Xs, hell even the Hellraiser: Hellworld fans exist. Now imagine a franchise where most of the movies are lost and only two of them have resurfaced. Jay Burleson asked himself that question and created that reality. Enter The Third Saturday in October series.
As a follow-up to our recent review of the upcoming found footage monster movie, Frogman,…
The reclamation of relevance, the affirmation to the world that you still mean something and…
The slow but ceaseless decay of one’s sanity is a common source of horror in…
2024 has arrived, and 2023 has left us with little more than music and cinema…
This Wednesday, November 15, 2023 marks the 57th anniversary of MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE. Join original cast member Jackey Neyman Jones & the crew at Dumb Industries as they celebrate 24 hours of Manos Day!
The corruption of the bonds of family has long been a source of horror in…
Tobe Hooper gets a bad rap as a director. Sure, he gets credit for THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE and, if you’re the right sort of horror fan, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2, but beyond that his filmography is often glossed over, ignored, or credited to other collaborators. And yet Hooper directed several impressively creepy (and, occasionally, wickedly funny) horror films that did not involve Texas or chainsaws. One such film worthy of reconsideration is his 1976 film EATEN ALIVE! (aka STARLIGHT SLAUGHTER, aka HORROR HOTEL, aka DEATH TRAP, aka LEGEND OF THE BAYOU).
When I was 11 years old, Stephen King knocked me for a triple whammy: he…