Return of the Crites.
There was some very exciting news this week that one of my favourite horror franchises is being resurrected. Blue Ribbon Content, the digital television arm of Warner Brothers is producing a Critters...
View ArticleShort of the Week #2: Bobby Yeah
This week I'm talking about UK-based animator Robert Morgan. I first became aware of his work when his 2003 short The Separation appeared on Fantasia's short film compilation DVD Small Gauge Trauma and...
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Coupla Things!
I'm just dropping in with a few announcements. The 58th edition of Little Terrors will be happening January 31st and has a ton of great shorts, including my latest project, The Good Samaritan!Art by...
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Fight the Power!
This week's title is Paul Golding's 1988 “shocker”Pulse.When David (Joey Lawrence) comes to stay with his father and stepmother, he starts to suspect something dangerous is going on with the power on...
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By the grace of YouTube, I came across a great little web series called Video Hoarders. Hosted by collector Rob Taylor, he travels across his native Australia meeting up with the most fanatical who...
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Short of the Week #3: Heart of Karl
I'm gonna throw up some CanCon this week. This year marks the tenth anniversary of me discovering the work of Winnipeg collective Astron 6. These guys made many great shorts over the years, but my...
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Don't Take No Shit From A Machine!
This week I took a trip into space with Robert Dyke's eighties sci-fi actioner Moontrap starring Walter“Chekov”Keonig and Bruce Campbell.A pair of astronauts (Koenig & Campbell) embark on a...
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Still Death.
Hey there! I hope this weekend is treating you kindly. I've been revelling in the work of Dave Pollot recently. He's the artist who inserts pop culture icons into thrift store paintings. Here below are...
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Short of the Week #4: Day of John
Going back in time to 2005, here is Chris Nash's debut short film Day of John.I first met Nash at a Rue Morgue event back in 2004 and we became fast friends. Over the years, we've been involved in...
View ArticleThursday Beats!
Here's the latest video from Videogram for the single “Test Subject 011” using some very familiar visuals. Enjoy!Check out Videogram's Bandcamp by clicking here.
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In Sickness & In Death...
This week's VHS is a random title from the stack with a semi-familiar coverbox, Patrick Jamain's 1985 thriller Honeymoon aka Lune de Miel.To avoid deportation, Cécile (French starlet Nathalie Baye)...
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Short of the Week #5: Dead Hearts
This week is a 2014 short I absolutely adore from Stephen Martin entitled Dead Hearts. The Wes Anderson-style whimsy is unmistakable, but Martin's sixteen-minute opus affected me more than anything...
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It's A Jag!
In celebration of Women in Horror Month, I picked out Gaylene Preston's 1984 Kiwi ghost tale Mr. Wrongaka Dark of the Night.After a few unexplainable events involving her newly purchased Jaguar, Meg...
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Short of the Week #6: The Captured Bird
In keeping with Women in Horror Month, this week's short film is Jovanka Vuckovic's debut The Captured Bird from 2012.Vuckovic has long been in a presence in the Ontario horror scene. After having been...
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Don't Go Home!
For this week’s entry I watched Lurkers, the second-to-last film of prolific filmmaker Roberta Findlay.Shortly before her wedding, Cathy (Christina Moore) starts seeing apparitions of tormented souls...
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White Halloween
Another weekend, another horror marathon it seems. This time it was all eight Halloween films. Fortunately, some atrocious weather that day made it very conducive to sitting on my friend Serena's couch...
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Short of the Week #7: Ellie
This week I want to showcase an exciting young filmmaker by the name of Morgana McKenzie. She's been writing/directing/shooting/you name it since her early teens and has already racked up several short...
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Hexes & Lasers.
Two things I wanted to share with you. First, the full line-up of this year's Hexploitation Film Festival was announced yesterday.There are several titles I'm intrigued by including Eduardo M. Clorio's...
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