Shelley’s Daughters

When the strange, arresting, thoroughly frightening novel called “Frankenstein” was published in London on New Year’s Day, 1818, there was no author named on the title page, and readers and reviewers, almost to a person, assumed the book had been written by a man. They were mistaken. The creator of “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus”…

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)

Sam Reide (Chris Carmack) witnesses a woman killed, then wakes up in an ice-filled bathtub, his vitals being monitored by his sister Jenna (Rachel Miner). Sam can travel back to any time and location during his lifetime (occupying the body of that time in his life), needing only to concentrate on where and when he…

War of the Dead (2011)

Zombies are all the rage these days. Why, it seemed like just yesterday that vampires were en vogue, what with the TWILIGHT film series in full hype. Werewolves? Nah. They’ve gone to the dogs. Today, the best scares are found in the ranks of the undead. Even AMC TV is getting into the craze with…

Bait (2012)

As I’m watching the credits roll in the beginning of the movie, I’m thinking “here goes another shark movie” but then I remember why I’m watching in the first place: it’s an Australian Horror movie. There are certain countries that have always delivered entertainment and gore, and for  me those countries are Australia and New…

I Vampiri (1956)

I Vampiri” is the great Mario Bava’s uncredited directorial debut. Obviously preceeding “Black Sunday,” (based very loosely on Nikolai Gogol’s “Viy”) starring the lovely Barbara Steele which is his official debut. Director Riccardo Freda made a bet that he could make this film in twelve days and the producers said OK. Being a friend of…

Trailer For STATE OF EMERGENCY!

April 16th there will be a STATE OF EMERGENCY!! From Image Entertainment comes a new zombie flick from director Turner Clay and its looking pretty damn good. Synopsis: “After an explosion unleashes the contents of a military bio-weapons plant, the unsuspecting populace is transformed into a roaming army of flesh-eating zombies. Trapped in the quarantine…