Welcome To Lake Nowhere.
So, I’m not looking at a vintage VHS title today, but Christopher Phelps& Maxim Von Scoy’s cabin-in-the-woods slasher, Lake Nowhere very well could have been.It was a long journey to get this movie...
View ArticleAwww Maaaan!
No DKTM this week. Rather some words about some bad news I heard this week. Another video store, perhaps THE video store in Toronto, is closing its doors. The legendary Suspect Video which has been...
View ArticleDon’t @%#*$& Talk!
A movie in the mainstream horror stable that I’ve been excited about for some time is Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe. I've started shutting off trailers as soon as I decide I'm going to see the film, so...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Night School
So, with the summer winding down, I thought I'd play a trailer for Night School, an eighties slasher I watched on the weekend.Well, it finally happened. I am now old enough and seen so many movies that...
View ArticleDKTM 313
Hi all! I hope you are all enjoying your Labour Day weekend. Here's what I've got for you today.Brutality!!!It appears that we got another look at the upcoming Friday the 13th video game at PAX last...
View ArticlePlaydead Does It Again.
Last week, I took a break from exploring the universe of No Man's Sky to check out Playdead's newest Inside, which just dropped on the Playstation Network. I'd been eagerly awaiting this title for ages...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Friday the 13th Part 2
Seeing that game play trailer for the new Friday the 13th game last week has got me in that kind of mood.I love those old Friday trailers. How pure they were. And this one even had the added bonus of...
View ArticleFan Expo 2016
Toronto's yearly nerd prom, Fan Expo descended on the city last weekend. I had distanced myself from the event since Rue Morgue left, but decided to go one day this year to see the sights and hang out...
View ArticleI Got A Fever!
Hey all. I'll be gone for a few days while I take in some TIFF flicks, but I'll be back next week with some reviews on what I've been catching. In the meantime, here's a great VHS supercut put together...
View ArticleIt's A Cutthroat Business.
TIFF is now in full swing and after two banging crime/action pictures (Ben Wheatley's Free Fire& The Mo BrothersHeadshot), Midnight Madness saw its first horror picture of the programme, Greg...
View ArticleBack Into The Woods.
A few months ago, Lionsgate dropped the bomb at Comic-Con that their upcoming horror flick The Woods from the dynamic duo of Adam Wingard& Simon Barrett, was actually a sequel to the legendary 1999...
View ArticleThe Lady In The Walls.
My first non-midnight screening of this year's TIFF was Osgood Perkins' newest I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in the House aka The Movie With the Ridiculously Long Title.A hospice nurse (Ruth Wilson)...
View ArticleThey're Back, Baby!
Midnight Madness continued on Monday with Julia Ducournau's first solo effort, Raw.After being forced to eat meat during a hazing ritual at her first week at veterinary school, vegetarian Justine...
View ArticleIt's Not Just For The Japanese Anymore.
To add to this year's docket of TIFFfilms, I was able to score a ticket to Amat Escalante's The Untamed.This Mexican-Danish-French-German-Norwegian-Swiss co-production was a complete question mark for...
View ArticleJ-Horror Showdown
This year's Midnight Madness concluded on Saturday with a classic confrontation between the two horror icons from The Ring and The Grudge franchises, Sadako vs. Kayako.After a pair of young women...
View ArticleTrailer Tuesdays: Theatre of Blood
Now that all of that festival excitement is behind us, I'll cap off this year's festivities with some theatre mayhem from 1973.So much going on in this trailer, and you can be sure Vincent Price had a...
View ArticleTIFF Vids 2016
Videographer Robert Mitchell was once again a fixture on the Ryerson red carpet at this year's Midnight Madness. Here's a sampling of some of the interviews he was able to snag during the fest.If you'd...
View ArticleDKTM 314
Hey all. With some time now between festivals, I can catch a breather and touch on some cool things from around the Web.Stay Tuned.SyFy recently aired some promos for their upcoming anthology horror...
View ArticleBoy Oh Boooooooooy!
Last weekend, I checked out the new 4K restoration of Don Coscarelli's 1979 film Phantasm.Restoration poster art by Aaron Lea.Coscarelli's classic sees the a small town thrown into chaos when an...
View ArticleR.I.P. Herschell Gordon Lewis 1929-2016
I was absolutely gutted to hear about the passing of H.G. Lewis yesterday. He was 87.Herschell Gordon Lewis 1929-2016.Affectionately known as “The Godfather of Gore” by his fans and peers alike, his...
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