Born out of the movie series, Creepshow, which was in turn inspired by EC Comics’ titles like “Tales from the Crypt” and “The Vault of Horror,” Tales from the Darkside was a horror anthology television series that ran in syndication from 1984 to 1988. Each week, the series featured a differentContinue Reading
Roger Cobb (William Katt) is a horror writer whose life is unraveling. He’s recently been divorced from his wife (Kay Lenz); his son has gone missing; and his publisher is clamoring for a new book or he’ll be forced to repay the money he was advanced. And, to top itContinue Reading
Max Renn (James Woods) runs CIVIC TV, a small cable channel in Toronto that specializes in broadcasting salacious content. Namely, softcore porn and violence or combinations of the two. Renn is constantly on the hunt for something that pushes the envelope and will gain notoriety for the channel. When satelliteContinue Reading
Halloween fans have learned to expect the unexpected over the last 40 years. After several sequels that promised to be the last in the series and one “re-imagining” of the original film that earned a sequel of its own, here is yet another sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher classic.Continue Reading
In 1891, the survivors of a prison ship wreck, including a medical officer, Lieutenant Claude de Ross (Claudio Cassinelli), and several prisoners, wash up on the shore of an uncharted island in the Caribbean. They are discovered by the island’s self-proclaimed owner, Edmond Rackham (Richard Johnson) and a woman named AmandaContinue Reading
The “Golden Age of Slasher Films” is widely considered to be between the late 1970s to 1984. Halloween, with its explosive box-office success in 1978, prompted a wave of clones and rip-offs that saturated theaters until their return on investment wasn’t profitable enough to keep the blood flowing. One of theContinue Reading
The Amityville Horror is based on the 1977 book by Jay Anson, which has been the subject of controversy since its publication as a “true story.” Both the book and the movie tell the story of George and Kathy Lutz (played in the movie by James Brolin and Margot Kidder), whoContinue Reading