More Like "On Bore" Amirite?
This week's VHS was Don Edmonds' 1980 rock n' roll slasher, Terror on Tour.Several women are being murdered during concerts of controversial rock band The Clowns. Could the killer be a fan? Or even a...
View ArticleNight Light 2019
Check out this sweet poster for the newly formed Night Light Film Festival.Taking place this October 3rd-5th at the Apollo Cinema in Kitchener, Ontario, Night Light will be showcasing both contemporary...
View ArticleOoh-Zoo-Mah-Kee
I heard some terrific news this weekend. Adult Swim's Toonami is adapting Junji Ito's bonkers manga Uzumaki into a four-part anime miniseries. Check out the trailer below.Man, that music by Colin...
View ArticleBe Kind! Rewind!
Another cool thing I discovered this weekend was Shudder's original podcast Video Palace. This is a terrific little audio play that I came across while surfing Amazon Video.One of my all-time favourite...
View ArticleTiff Time!
TIFF has come around again so I'll likely be incognito for the foreseeable future. See you on the other side, kiddies!
View ArticleTiff Vids 2019
Another TIFF is in the books. Genre highlights for me were Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, Rose Glass'Saint Maud& Andrew Patterson's The Vast of Night.I also enjoyed Richard Stanley's newest Color Out of...
View ArticleNailed It!
There's a new episode of The Rewind Zone up at Rue Morgue TV. This time host Yasmina Ketita regales us about her love of the awesomely awful 1985 slasher Nail Gun Massacre.
View ArticleBrought To You By The Letter M.
This week I watched a pair of eighties slashers, Joe Giannone's 1981 flick Madman and Buddy Cooper's The Mutilator from 1984, the latter of which I had never seen before.Madman was technically a...
View ArticleR.I.P. Sid Haig 1939-2019
I heard the sad news today that veteran actor Sid Haig past away a few days ago. He was 80. Haig was a genre giant with a career that spanned six decades in film and television. Over that time, he...
View ArticleShort of the Week #72: Waterborne
SotW returns with this 2014 Australian effort called Waterborne from Ryan Coonan. It's sure to tickle the fancy of zombie and marsupial lovers alike!
View ArticleMore Frankenstein Than Dracula
With the recent passing of Sid Haig, I dived into his early career for this week's pick. Since I posted about Spiderbaby– the obvious choice – back in 2010, I went with 1966's Blood Bath.A string of...
View ArticleNYG.
Geez, I wish I lived in New York - at least in October - so I could catch this screening of Black Gloves and Razors at Brooklyn's Spectacle Theater. Once a legendary bootleg tape of the gialli's...
View ArticleShort of the Week #73: Girl In The Hallway
Valerie Barnhart's Girl in the Hallway, a short film that basically slayed all in attendance when it screened at Fantasia has now been uploaded to Vimeo. Enjoy is likely the wrong word, but here it is.
View ArticleMy Top 25 Twilight Zone Episodes (#25-16)
Sixty years ago today, Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone first aired on CBS. You don't need me to tell you how important this show was to the genre and pop culture, but it was exceedingly influential to...
View ArticleMy Top 25 Twilight Zone Episodes (#15-6)
Welcome back! Let's continue with my countdown of favourite Twilight Zone episodes, starting with an “alien” invasion.15.Season 2, Episode 15 / First Broadcast Jan 27, 1961Written by Richard Matheson /...
View ArticleMy Top 25 Twilight Zone Episodes (#5-1)
Okay so here we are, these are TZ's top episodes in my book.5.Season 5, Episode 3 / First Broadcast Oct 11, 1963Written by Richard Matheson / Directed by Richard DonnerMy favourite of Matheson's...
View ArticleShort of the Week #74: Deathbox
This week I give you my pal Mike Pereira's newly posted short Deathbox from 2015.Look out for his upcoming debut feature Shout For The Devil to be unleashed next year.
View ArticleSplatter Matters
Check out this new video from Rue Morgue TV about the 1986 Canuck faux doc Splatter: Architects of Fear where Canuxploitation's Paul Corupe tells the story about how the filmmakers put one over on the...
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