Go West Part II
Well, I'm off to Saskatoon for SFFF. Stay out of trouble while I'm gone.
View ArticleSFFF 2019.
I have returned from my trip to the Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival and it was an absolute blast. Toontown is a wonderful place that was surprisingly sunny and had way more stuff to do than I was...
View ArticleRe-Enactment Re-Surfaces.
Way back in 2008, when The Horror Section was in its infancy, I worked on a micro-budget feature called Android Re-Enactment made by my buddy Darryl Shaw. A lot of work went into this project - I...
View ArticleShort BITS 2019
My recent trip to Saskatoon Fantastic ran parallel with the eighth edition of Blood In The Snow so I was sadly unable to attend this year. However, they were kind enough to send me screeners so I did...
View ArticleHorror-Rama 2019
The sixth annual Horror-Rama took place last weekend in Toronto.The usual fun was had by all, but this year was particularly significant because the HR gang was able to bring out living legend Lamberto...
View ArticleBrain Fest!
As I mentioned yesterday, there was a special reason I sped to Horror-Rama last weekend. Those crazy cats put together a retrospective on one of my favourite Canadian horrors, Ed Hunt's 1988 flick The...
View ArticleShort of the Week #79: Tick
Been a while since I've linked to a short here, but my friend Ashlea Wessel's 2018 short film Tick premiered on Alter today so here it is below.While Wessel has been trying to get a feature version of...
View ArticleSpasms Revisited.
In one of last year's VHS Fridays, I gushed over Will Fruet's giant snake vs. Ollie Reed flick Spasms so I was happy to see Paul Corupe of Canuxpliotation.com recently talking about it on Rue Morgue...
View ArticleShort of the Week #80: Glitter's Wild Women
So this one is more of a black comedy than horror, but I love it. Check out Roney's 2018 short Glitter's Wild Women below.
View ArticleHexFest 2020
The event poster for next year's Hexploitation Film Festival dropped a few days ago.Many thanks to artist Patrick Sparrow for the epic inks. HXFF runs Feb 20-22 at Hamilton's Staircase Theatre. For...
View ArticleTWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE XMAS...
AND ALL THROUGH MY DOMAIN.NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING...NOT EVEN A BRAIN!
View Article2019 Wrap-up
Hey all. So, here we are at the end of the decade. I thought about doing some sort of Best of list, but frankly I just couldn't be bothered. I suppose if you're interested, you can go back through my...
View Article2019 Shorts
Despite my lack of drive to make any sort of official end of year/decade lists, I felt compelled to at least post about my favourite short films from 2019. I now spend about ten hours a week watching...
View ArticleRent Some Horror Today.
Here's a spooky little ditty courtesy of the YT channel Animated Horror Flicks. I have to admire this employee's commitment, I'd have peaced out the second I saw that dude. I was always more of a...
View ArticleHXFF 2020
The eleventh edition of the Hexploitation Film Festival announced its feature line-up today. We got all sorts of goodies this year, including five Canadian premieres, as well as rockin' after party...
View ArticleShort of the Week #81: Withorwithout
This music video for the band Parcels is a bit old, but I dig the High Tension/You're Next vibe. Plus it's got Milla and terrific direction from Benjamin Howdeshell. Enjoy!
View ArticleHex Shorts 2020
We announced our short film line-up for this year's Hexploitation Film Fest yesterday. It's a pretty bangin' one if I do say so myself. Check it.HXFF runs Feb 20-22 at Hamilton's Staircase Theatre. For...
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