In a certain part of Denver, there is a courtyard that holds four houses. Two of them are empty now, but when they were first built, they belonged to a quartet of sisters who had done plenty of traveling over their surprisingly long lifetimes: The sisters had come most recently from wooded, green, and rainy […]
Read more "A Family Saga with Bones in the Cellar: Melanie Tem’s Wilding"In the early 1990s, Jeanne Cavelos spearheaded a new enterprise over at Dell. It was a horror themed line that tried to move away from the expectations associated with the term horror fiction and zero in on newer, darker visions. “It’s not about haunted houses or evil children or ancient Indian burial grounds,” the statement […]
Read more "It’s Weird to Think of the World Not Being Solid, Isn’t It? Melanie Tem’s Prodigal"At Lincoln High School, this year’s student class body election is getting surprisingly cutthroat. Popular girl Chelsea (Nicolette le Faye) is the likeliest to succeed … at least until the likeable slacker Barry (Bennie Mack McCoy IV) decides to throw his hat into the ring. Why now when he has neither paid his dues nor […]
Read more "Politics Can Be Messy: President’s Day (2010)"Before the WNUF Halloween Special (2013), Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014), and What Happens Next Will Scare You (2020), writer/director Chris LaMartina helmed a few other flicks, including shorts and feature films. The 2010 slasher flick, President’s Day, has just found a new life thanks to the recent Blu-ray release via the Terror Vision label, […]
Read more "Helluva Craft: Witch’s Brew (2011)"When Estela lost her parents in a freak, unexplained accident aboard a New York subway, she was thrown into a system that pretended to care, but was ultimately powerless to do anything to help her. She was an undocumented immigrant, after all, because her father apparently never filed the proper paperwork to change their status. […]
Read more "No Hay Luz En Oscuro: Romina Garber’s Castle of the Cursed"Roy Bain (Larry Lamb) would rather spend his days painting than getting involved with old, bad influences like gangster-turned-industrialist Motherskille (Steven Berkoff). However, when Bain’s old flame Nicole (Nicola Cowper) is kidnapped by persons unknown, Motherskille hires the former gumshoe to take one last case. The investigation leads Bain to Pepperdine (Ingrid PItt) an exclusive […]
Read more "You Are What You Dream: Underworld (1985)"Some time ago, a cult tried to bring their filthy god to life. They sought the destruction of the Omniverse, whatever that might mean, and through the gruesome grimoire Liber Pravitis Itineribus (The Book of Depravity), found a means of doing so. But when the god was nothing like what they thought it would be, […]
Read more "A Macabre Scavenger Hunt: Tim Waggoner’s Lord of the Feast"Five showgirls, their manager Lucas (Alfredo Rizzo), and driver Ferrenc (Leonardo Botta) are caught between a rock and a hard place—in this case, between a storm and a desire not to shell out cash for lodgings. At their last lodgings, they ditched the bill (though Lucas left a tip for the maid). So it seems […]
Read more "For the Price We Paid, He Could Have Told Us to Go to Hell: The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960)"Lou (Kristen Stewart) works at the seedy Crater Gym in a small urban area of the American southwest. She keep the place relatively orderly, fends off desperate ex-girlfriends like Daisy (Anna Baryshnikov), and tries to be a guardian angel for her sister Beth (Jena Malone). However, you can only clean out so many toilets, watch […]
Read more "Falling in Love or Just Falling? Love Lies Bleeding (2024)"When Lohman’s circus acquires a jaguar, they don’t realize it’s carrying something unexpected inside of it. They only realize that the new cat is reacting strongly to the lion tamer’s assistant Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou) and that jittery quality is passing to all the cats in the show. The cause will soon be revealed … but […]
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