The Dead Want Women (2012)
It had been ages since I saw one of Charles band’s movies, though I’d grown up on many of his features. However, my tolerance for his work waned in my latter years. Still, when I heard about his latest release, THE DEAD WANT WOMEN, I grew interested again. I have nothing but admiration for Band, … Read more
DRIVER FOR THE DEAD (2011)
Like most people my age I know, I grew up with comic books. I could extol upon the virtues of the medium, the perfect harmony between the cerebral depth of books and the visual fluidity of cinema, the evolution of the medium into a respectable art form. But really, I just liked seeing Ghost Rider … Read more
THE DIVIDE (2011)
As far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a survivor. And I’m not talking about surviving some reality show. I mean surviving when everyone else was dead. Surviving the End of the World. My favourite movie from a very young age was Charlton Heston’s THE OMEGA MAN. I imagined myself as … Read more
Special Horror Feature: The Zombie Experience
“If wishes were horses, we’d all ride.” People are supposed to be the sum of their experiences, whether they’re experiences that happen to us, or experiences that we make happen. And everyone’s sum is unique: in some forty-odd years, I’ve been married and divorced, lived in a dozen different places, worked on nuclear warheads in … Read more
REQUIEM FOR THE DAMNED (2012)
Welcome back from your holiday, Deggsy!! You were missed when gone, and I’m glad to have ya back with your warped and twisted inside look at the horror genre!! It seems like you’ve come back with both barrels locked and loaded. —– Edgar Allan Poe will soon be on everyone’s lips again, as interest rises … Read more
Dead Genesis (2010)
As we all know, a zombie film, or indeed any horror film, can be more than just scares and gore; it can deliver a message too (thank you, Mr Romero). I say why not, so long as the filmmaker remembers to entertain us. And the social commentary can touch on any subject. The aforementioned Romero … Read more
Intruders (2012)
“The visions, the nightmares of a child are perhaps the most frightening and horrifying…” So went the opening narration in the KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER episode where Kolchak went after a Spanish Moss Monster, a Bayou Boogeyman conjured up from the subconscious of a narcoleptic Cajun. I wanted to use the above quote, even though … Read more
Lesbians vs Zombies: Book Series Review
Hope and Crosby. Simon and Garfunkel. Ham and Pineapple. Combinations you never thought would work well together, but when they do get together, you wonder why no one had thought of them before. Or you don’t. It’s late in the evening when I’m writing this, so it sounds profound to me. To that list maybe … Read more
Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation (2012)
If I had to sum up my review of this in one word? Disappointing. I went in blindly, knowing very little about it except that it starred two of my favorite living genre actors: the indefatigable Jeffrey Combs, the RE-ANIMATOR himself (hence the reference in the long title of this opus), and former WISHMASTER Andrew … Read more
Splinter (2009)
Now here’s a little gem I stumbled on from British director Toby Wilkins (THE GRUDGE 3), one that was made a couple of years ago but I never heard about. I’m always like that, usually so very late for the good stuff. Someday I’m gonna find out what’s so wonderful about girls’ boobs… The movie … Read more
