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Mangled!
With the latest iteration of Pet Sematary in theatres, I decided to watch an old Stephen King ditty I'd been meaning to revisit, Tobe Hooper's The Mangler from 1995.After several fatalities involving...
View ArticleShort of the Week #61: The Dollmaker
With the release of Pet Sematary last weekend, it made sense to post this similarly-themed short from 2017 called The Dollmaker directed by Al Lougher.The Dollmaker just launched via the online horror...
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Back To Jerusalem.
This week's flick is Larry Cohen's 1987 vampire flick A Return to Salem's Lot.An anthropologist (Michael Moriarty) and his son (Ricky Reed) visit an quiet Maine town not realizing it is populated by...
View ArticlePodcastin'
I guested on the newest episode of the podcast The Boys Who Would Be Critics where we discussed the new Pet Sematary movie, as well as some other fun King adaptations of yore. Check it out below if you...
View ArticleShort of the Week #62: Winston
This week I dug into the wonderful world of animation and pulled out Aram Sarkisian's short Winston from 2017.This was Sarkisian's final project at California Institute of the Arts. I love the Poe-like...
View ArticleVideo Visions
I found this Inside Edition piece about one of the last video stores in America yesterday. It's always good to see people keeping the dream alive. Looks like they have a pretty good horror section too.
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Ten Little Inheritants.
This week's VHS is a recent acquisition in Emmanuel Kervyn's 1988 horror Rabid Grannies.A birthday party for two old ladies (Catherine Ayemerie& Caroline Braeckman) turns gruesome when they are...
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Pit, Man.
Last Thursday, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the indispensable film archive Canuxpliotation.com, the Laser Blast Film Society screened the 1981 Canadian classic The Pit at The Royal. My...
View ArticleShort of the Week #63: Ella
It was recently brought to my attention that a short I saw waaaay back in 2011 at the now defunct Worldwide Shorts Festival is now online via Alter. Check out Dan Gitsham's Ella starring Anthony Head...
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It's The End of the World, Eh?
With this weekend's finality of both Endgame and the Battle of Winterfell, I thought it appropriate to dust off an eighties end of the world title in Paul Donavan's Def-Con 4 from 1985.Three astronauts...
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Shock Stock 2019!
It's that time of year again where I travel down the 401 to London to take in the greasy sights and sounds of Shock Stock. Despite being up into the wee hours the night before due to a late Endgame...
View ArticleShort of the Week #64: Creature Feature
Here's an amusing bit of retro horror I caught at one of the short blocks at Shock Stock last weekend. Here is Newton Wallen's Creature Feature from circa 2017.Some other highlights from SS were Vidar...
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A Room To Die For.
This week's VHS is my newly acquired Video Treasures copy of 1979's The Silent Scream.Students residing at an off-campus mansion get bumped off one-by-one by someone or something.I was teetering on...
View ArticleShort of the Week #65: Meow
I discovered a short I programmed at the 2017 edition of Saskatoon Fantastic made its way online. Here below is Chris Jopp's Meow, courtesy of Alter.This was Jopp's fourth short so I'm sure it is only...
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The Coverbox Was Cool At Least Vol. 117
This week's VHS is another recent Shock Stock acquisition in Ken Meyer's 1986 backwoods slasher Terror at Tenkiller.Leslie (Stacey Logan) & Janna (Michele Merchant) retreat to her parent's remote...
View ArticleShort of the Week #66: Eldritch Code
This week I'm in a Lovecraft kind of mood so here's Ivan Radovic's 2017 short Eldritch Code.
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Dream Weaver
This week's VHS is another Shock Stockacquisition in Richard Christian's 1982 thriller The Sender.When an amnesiac telepath (Zeljko Ivanek) enters a mental hospital under the care of Dr. Farmer...
View ArticleShort of the Week #67: Hada
Because my love of monster in the closet stories knows no bounds, here's one from Spaniard Tony Morales called Hada.Morales followed this up two years later with another horror called Do we play?
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Emmeritus Triple Bill
About eight years ago, I first discovered the wonderful world of Emmeritus Productions. For those who don't know, they were a Canadian film company that made a slew of shot-on-video titles in the...
View ArticleShort of the Week #68: B(l)ackstage
Here is a short film by Austrian filmmaker Daniel Limmer entitled B(l)ackstage that I programmed at last year's Toronto Smartphone Film Festival.Yes, this was filmed entirely on an iPhone. This year's...
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