Comic Review: The Empty Man

By Svetlana Fedotov Viruses sure are fun. Ranging from a mild cold to a full blown 28 Days Later zombie invasion, diseases are probably the only thing keeping human beings in check since we learned how to beat things with sticks. It is the great equalizer that branches across all societies, classes, professions, and wealth, […]

Film Review: Cold in July (2014)

By Keri O’Shea Jim Mickle. Joe R. Lansdale. When you hear those two names, chances are you immediately think of the horror genre – so, when both of those names can be mentioned in the same sentence, you’ll definitely expect a certain type of movie. Mickle has, after all, cut his teeth on the horror […]

DVD Review: Varsity Blood (2014)

Review by Ben Bussey Perhaps the greatest challenge of being a horror reviewer is finding fresh and creative ways to say “this film is a piece of shit.” Not the cheeriest opening sentence ever, I know, but the sad reality is that the direct-to-DVD horror market is and always has been strewn with cowpats from the devil’s […]

Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre at 25

By Liam Cannon It seems to me that we live in an era of senseless hyperbole, when too many people have lost their sense of proportion. Kanye West terms himself a genius after penning some dull chart-topping dross and terms like “epic” and “awesomeballs” are hurled about with gay abandon in praise of the most […]

Horror in Short: Dysmorphia (2013)

By Keri O’Shea We’re an unhappy array of meat-sacks, eh? Even in these times – in the Western world at least – of relative plenty and luxury (and before you argue, consider that you could have been born in the 14th Century) we treat our bodies like battlegrounds; when material concerns become secondary, we turn […]

“The Beauties of Terror” – the 50th Anniversary of The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

By Keri O’Shea There’s been a strange sort of circularity to the career of Roger Corman. Whilst as a young man he made films about anything and everything he could (as did many directors and/or producers of his generation and longevity) he definitely seems to have had a soft spot for no-budget, turn-a-buck creature features: […]

Review: The American Scream (2012)

Review by Quin In the fall of my first year of high school, my best friend and I decided to turn my backyard into a haunted house for Halloween. During September and October, we spent every day after school planning and building our own haunt. We had ropes and pulleys, we hung a maze of […]

Comic Review: The Goon – One for the Road

Review by Svetlana Fedotov Ah, The Goon. Everyone’s favorite tough-talking, hard-drinking, hobo-slapping, pair of thugs for hire, Goon and Frankie, have been delighting fans for ages with their hilarious hi-jinks and low-brow humor. A clever mix of noir, humor, and horror, Dark Horses premier bad-asses are once again back in the spotlight with another one […]