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Michael Paul Stephenson on BEST WORST MOVIE – Horror Film Podcast
Trolls? Goblins? Troblins? Fans of TROLL 2 get their gear on in BEST WORST MOVIE.
Have no doubt, I love bad movies. I still have fond memories of the first time I stumbled onto ROBOT MONSTER, back in the days when local broadcast television had afternoon movie shows, and one could serendipitously chance [...]
Dread (2009) – DVD Review
One of the best films in this year’s After Dark Horrorfest DREAD has a strong pedigree – based on the Clive Barker story of the same name, which originally appeared in the second volume of his Books of Blood.
Zombies of Mass Destruction – DVD Review
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One of the “8 Films to Die For” in the 2010 After Dark Horrorfest, ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION attempts to use its familiar genre elements in the service of a post-9/11 political satire, depicting how people succumb to panic and prejudice in the aftermath of a massive attack. It’s a good idea, if [...]
After Dark Films to release “After Dark Originals” in September
After Dark Films has just put out a press release announcing “After Dark Originals.” This is a set of eight original horror films, produced in association with Lionsgate and NBC Universal’s Syfy, which will be released in September 2010. For the past few years, After Dark has been distributing an annual Horrorfest of “8 Films [...]
Laserblast, March 23: Toy Story 1 & 2, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Horrorfest, ZMD
[ March 23, 2010; ] It says something – I’m not sure what – that this week’s most exciting home video releases in the realm of horror, fantasy, and science fiction are of a pair of films from the previous millennium: both TOY STORY and TOY2 arrive on March 23 in two-disc special edition packages, combining Blu-ray and DVD discs. [...]
After Dark Horrorfest 4 – Jan 29 to Feb 4
[ January 29, 2010 to February 4, 2010. ] The fourth installment of the annual After Dark Horrorfest opens for a one-week run in a handful of theatres across the country. This year’s group of “8 Films to Die For” includes DREAD, HIDDEN, KILL THEORY, LAKE MUNGO, THE FINAL, THE GRAVES, THE REEDS, and ZOMBIES OF MASS DESTRUCTION. The festival will be screening in [...]
Laserblast: After Dark Horrorfest on DVD
Lots of stuff science fiction, fantasy, and horror arrives on home video this week: a package of “eight films to die for,” a fantasy-comedy starring Adam Sandler, a scary time-travel thriller from Spain, plus some old titles making their debut on Blu-ray or DVD. Continue at your peril…
When it made its debut in November 2006, the [...]
Autopsy (2009) – After Dark Horrorfest Review
Well, now we know where those looping entrails in Dario Argento’s MOTHER OF TEARS came from: co-writers Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch. Working from a script co-written with E.L. Katz, Anderson and Gierasch serve up ten times as many internal organs in AUTOPSY – with about one-tenth the effectiveness. The set-up is so simple, and [...]
The Broken – After Dark Horrorfest Review
So far, this is the best of the “8 Films to Die For” in the 2009 After Dark Horrorfest. Rather than filling the screen with gore, violence, and cannibalism, THE BROKEN works from an intriguing premise to create an enigmatic mystery-thriller with overtones of paranoid horror. Shot in cool colors with slick production values and solid [...]
Slaughter – After Dark Horrorfest Review
Do not buy a ticket to this movie. Do not rent this movie. Do not watch this movie for free. If you have a choice between seeing this movie and being incarcerated in Guantanamo, choose the latter, because sitting through this suckfest is such torture that it qualifies as a crime against humanity that should [...]
From Within – After Dark Horrorfest Review
The second of “8 Films to Die For” in the 2009 edition of the After Dark Horrorfest is an improvement over DYING BREED. Although FROM WITHIN lacks DYING’S technical polish (the cinematography, for example is relatively drab, suggesting the low-budget origins), at least FROM WITHIN has an interesting premise from which the screenplay builds a reasonably [...]
Dying Breed – After Dark Horrorfest Review
The third After Dark Horrorfest (which bills itself as “8 Films to Die For”) gets off to a shaky start with yet another depiction of what can go wrong if you go wandering through the wilds of Australia. In this case, the setting is the island of Tasmania rather than the outback, but after WOLF CREEK [...]
After Dark Horrofest 2009
[ January 9, 2009 to January 15, 2009. ] The latest installment of After Dark’s “8 Films to Die For” horror festival runs for one week in approximately 50 theatres nationwide. This year’s eight titles are THE BROKEN, SLAUGHTER, PERKINS 15, BUTTERFLY EFFECT: REVELATION. FROM WITHIN, DYING BREED, AUTOPSY, and VOICES. As in the previous After Dark film fests, the titles will play in [...]
