For some of you horror fans living under a rock, there is a group of people creating some kickass horror short films for your pleasure. MadeMade reviews up of seven film industry veterans, as one single entity they are called Fewdio and describe themselves as “a sinister entity that brings your darkest nightmares to life in rapid bursts of story and film which feed on your terror, horror, and grief…” What they deliver are some of the best short films a horror fan could ask for delivering a new short film every 13 days. With that out of the way, I wanted to share one of my favorite films from them titled Anniversary. It was one of the first films I watched from them and I was an turned into an immediate fan afterwards. Hopefully this will be true for some of you. Continue on to watch a six-minute film about a woman who celebrates a special anniversary in her own peculiar way. [Read more...]

Eric Binford is a shy, chain-smoking movie nut who is often ridiculed by his peers. Working at a film distribution warehouse and living with his eccentric (and often times abusive) Aunt Stella, he delves deeply into film as a means of solace and, perhaps, power. EricEric reviews becomes a film aficionado, but spends quite a bit of time straddling the lines of reality; often quoting his favorite character ArthurArthur reviews “Cody” Jarrett (Played by James Cagney in White HeatWhite Heat reviews), and almost constantly spouting movie references and trivia. This obsession with film is just another source of the jeering and ridicule he endures. His Aunt thinks he’s nuts, his boss can’t stand him, and the guys at work think he’s a joke. To top things off, Eric is stood up (un-intentionally) by Marilyn O’Connor – a stunning Marilyn Monroe look-alike – who agreed to a date. That was the proverbial last straw and Eric finally loses it (homicidally so).  He begins a campaign of payback, progressing through his tormentors, using the characters from the films he has come to love. [Read more...]

The world’s human population has been infected with a human version of mad cow disease. Anyone afflicted with this particular ailment is rendered a crazed zombie hell-bent on nothing but feasting on the flesh of anyone not suffering the effects of the virus. Columbus has survived the initial onslaught by following 47 rules of zombie survival and is now making his way towards his parents to see if they have survived as well. As he navigates the urban wasteland he teams up with a Dale Earnhardt loving redneck named Tallahassee. Traveling alone like Columbus, he has an uncanny knack for dispatching zombies and a real strong hankerin’ for a creme filled Twinkie. They decide to try and partner up for a bit and see how it works out and for a while, it’s smooth sailing for the odd couple. That is until they meet Wichita and Little Rock, two crafty sisters making their way towards Pacific Playland amusement park – rumored to be a zombie free zone. Against all of their better judgment these vagabonds join forces and must decide if trusting and depending on each other is worth abandoning the rules that have kept them alive this long. [Read more...]

HalloweenHalloween reviews. All Hallow’s Eve. Samhain. The holiday associated with costumes, candy, carved pumpkins and of course, trick-or-treating. But like most holidays, these long-held traditions stem from important rituals long since forgotten. Halloween was not always just for the kiddies, and it had some very important rules that were to be followed with terrible consequences awaiting those who did not do so. The residents of Warren Valley hold their a festival on Halloween night,  turning their sleepy town into a spectacle akin to New Orleans’  Mardi Gras festivities. But some of the residents there are about to learn some very valuable lessons about this holiday and what can happen when the old rules are broken, and the warnings not heeded. Four tales of terror featuring a school principal who teaches a mischievous boy a valuable lesson, a group of kids learn the truth about a local legend that lies at bottom of the local rock quarry, a young woman is stalked by a masked stranger at the town festival, and an old-curmudgeon gets a very special trick-or-treater. Read on for my thoughts on one of the best, if not the best, Halloween themed films to date. [Read more...]

The trailer for the latest classic horror icon to get the reboot treatment has finally arrived, and it doesn’t look too bad. Fans of the Nightmare series are hemming and hawing over Robert Englund not being the actor adorning the green-and-red striped sweater, fedora and legendary glove but personally I don’t care too much one way or the other. I think Jackie Earle Haley will do a fine job. However, this is Platinum Dunes we are talking about and they hare responsible for rebooting\remaking other horror franchises like Texas Chainsaw MassacreThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre reviews, Amityville Horror, The HitcherThe Hitcher reviews and Friday the 13thFriday the 13th reviews. I thought they all stunk. Not because I am against remakes or feel they take away from the originals as in some cases remakes are damn good (The ThingThe Thing reviews, Hills Have EyesThe Hills Have Eyes reviews, The FlyThe Fly reviews, Dawn of the DeadDawn of the Dead (2004) reviews anyone?), but simply because these movies were God-awful pieces of shit.  So no matter how decent the following trailer looks, I just cannot shake the feeling that like their previous entries, this movie end up sucking ass. [Read more...]

Ben is down in the dumps after finding out that the girl he loves has been using her vagina to host another man’s penis. To help him get out of the breakup slump that followed, his friends take him along to Mardi Gras figuring the best medicine for the broken heart is a healthy dose of sex, drugs and rock and roll. To their dismay, Ben just isn’t into it and instead of partaking in all the things that make Mardi Gras worth dealing with the drunks, pick-pockets, rivulets of piss shimmering on the crowded streets, he’d rather take a lame Haunted Swamp Boat Tour. Dragging his friend Marcus along with him, they join some other tourists on a late-night boat ride through the Louisiana swamps and directly into the stomping grounds of a local legend who don’t take too kindly to strangers. [Read more...]

In the abysmal, black, soulless heart of cinematic tinkering lies a beast so unscrupulously dumb that it makes the higher brain functions of a California peach seem like sonnets from the world’s finest poet. Well, maybe that’s taking it a bit too far. Syngenor isn’t that terrible of a film. Its stupidity is actually kind of endearing in some ways and brutally unforgiving in others. If you’re in the mood for a complete reality zone out session lasting roughly a couple of hours, then this is your bacon wrapped enchilada. There is something about a film that has no qualms dancing in the sewer of bad taste, really kicking up the brown stuff and never looking back to see who gets sprayed that gets to me every time. It’s got lunatics, corporate yuppy greed, drug abuse, and synthetic monster soldiers whose weakness includes….well….everything. Even water burns them. That’s right, water. That’s something I never thought I’d see since hanging out with the Neon Maniacs. Bravo Syngenor! You’re my new best, worse friend. [Read more...]

-On June 9th, 1970, two boys and one girl were delivered simultaneously at Meadowvale General Hospital. All three born to different families and during a total solar eclipse. 10 years later we see that these three kids have grown up in the same neighborhood and even attend the same school. They each also happen to be obnoxious sociopaths. The kids plan out and execute the murders of anyone, kids or adults, who they feel slight them or may be an obstacle in the way of their goals. While the community lives in fear thinking a serial killer is responsible for the recent cold-blooded murders, the three children continue their reign of terror undetected. Well, almost. Timmy Russel, a classmate and neighbor, along with his older sister, Joyce, have started to catch on. Unfortunately they do not catch on quick enough and are not aware of just how ruthless this trio can get. But they are about to find out. [Read more...]

Who Can Kill A Child? is a woefully, and criminally overlooked horror movie made in 1976 and filmed in various locations around the beautiful, Southern coast of Spain. It’s a terrific horror film that was ahead of it’s time and over the years fans were treated to a variety of shitty VHS and DVD releases – the US version being hacked all to hell. But with the recent Dark Sky DVD release of the film, I decided it was time to point horror fans to an obscure film in the killer kid genre that is worth checking out. Tom (Lewis Fiander) and EvelynEvelyn reviews (Prunella Ransome) are an English couple vacationing in Spain. Evelyn is 6-months pregnant with their third child and Tom, a professor of Biology, has brought her to coastal town of Benivas to rest and rent a boat to get to their true destination; The island of Almanzora. A four hour trip by boat, the island is not normally flooded with tourists like the noisy Benivas and is a paradise whose beaches are not stuffed with the bloated bodies of tourists from around the world. It is off the beaten path just enough that the majority of tourists do not visit it, making it a perfect setting for anyone just wanting to have a nice, secluded getaway. [Read more...]

Got a confession to make. I am not a giant Sam Raimi fan. I know, some are already calling for my Horror Movie Lover’s card, but hear me out. Sure, the Evil Dead series are horror classics, introducing us to the world of splatstick. I sincerely appreciate both films and understand their place in horror movie history. But when it comes to his library of films, I just don’t like the majority of them too much. A Simple PlanA Simple Plan reviews, Spiderman 2spiderman 2 reviews and especially The GiftThe Gift reviews (let’s see if I can hear some gnashing of teeth when I admit that I like this film better than the Dead ones) are about it for me. So when the news came out that Raimi was returning to his roots and his next film would be horror, my level of excitement didn’t really waver much in either direction. So what did Raimi deliver? A damn good horror movie is what. A Tales From the Crypt-ish, PoltergeistPoltergeist reviews-y horror film sporing the PG-13 rating that showed off all the things fans of Raimi love to see, and hopefully enough gooey stuff and demon hi-jinx to stave off – at least for a little while – Evil Dead fans still waiting for a sequel. [Read more...]

H.P. Lovecraft fans have always lamented at the absence of any faithful, good adaptations of Lovecraft’s work. Sure, there have been notable films that were inspired by Lovecraft’s writings, but there has yet to be a film that accurately and faithfully took an H.P. Lovecraft story from the page to the screen. That is until now. With The Call of Cthulhu, The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society have created a film that any other H.P. Lovecraft films should be judged. What is even more amazing is that the film was painstakingly created to look as if it had been made in the 1920s. It is black and white and silent (complete with title cards). It is also the best H.P. Lovecraft adaptation to date. [Read more...]

Two newlyweds, Mak (Siwat Chotchaicharin) and Nak (Pataratida Pacharawirapong), inadvertently awaken the ghost of Mae Nak (Porntip Papanai), a woman who, 100 years earlier, terrorized her local village after dying and coming back as an extremely vengeful ghost. After dispatching anyone she felt was standing between her and her living husband, Mak, the local religious leaders performed a ceremony that was to keep the ghost of Mae Nak at rest. Now she is awake again and not too happy that she cannot find any peace after death. [Read more...]