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I got the opportunity once again to participate in Dementia von Grimm’s 31 Days of Horror series, this time tackling the 2012 documentary THE AMERICAN SCREAM, a charmingly told account of three families who put their all in turning their happy homes into hellish haunts every Halloween night. It’s a great watch to get you…

  Perhaps most popularly known as the director who was inevitably replaced by Mario Bava on I VAMPIRI (1957) and CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1959), Riccardo Freda did helm a number of genre pictures that have gained a respectable cult following in the intervening years. Today’s film (original title THE TERRIBLE SECRET OF DR. HICHCOCK)…

  Few things warm the cockles of my heart more than a period setting in a horror film, especially when we find ourselves in Merry Olde England, all starched collars and guttering candle flames and crisp accents and more bristling chops than you can shake a silk top hat at. For these reasons alone CORRIDORS…

And now for something completely different…. In more ways than one, incidentally. Not only is the subject of discussion today the highly unconventional, mind-bending mutant of the arthouse and exploitation camps that the world knows as Andrzej Żuławski’s POSSESSION (1981), but the format in which our review will be delivered has been changed up as…

  You know what’s another great locale for shuddersome stories? Submarines. Playing on all the same fears as the ones that plagued our ladies of the cave in THE DESCENT (2005), David Twohy’s slick, under-the-radar film benefits greatly from its submerged war station, pitting iron-willed men buckling under (water) pressure against an intangible threat they…

  On Netflix, Kevin S. Tenney’s (NIGHT OF THE DEMONS) 1996 film PINOCCHIO’S REVENGE earned the same rating by the powers that be as HOWLING III: THE MARSUPIALS which I’m telling you right now is such a load of horseshit because the latter hardly constitutes as a movie in the first place. Going by genre expectations…

  If a single monster didn’t pop up during the running time of THE DESCENT, it wouldn’t be any less terrifying. Neil Marshall struck gold when he had the idea to use spelunking as the source of terror in his story. What more could you ask for from a location in a horror film? The…

  If you’re in the spirit for something a little bit different this season, might I suggest AN EVENING OF EDGAR ALLAN POE? It’s pretty much what it says on the box: four stories penned by the original American master of the macabre, all performed by Vincent Price. Shot for television, these adaptations by David…