Night of the Zoopocalypse Review: A Family Friendly Gateway to Horror
Night of the Zoopocalypse offers a fun, Canadian, family-friendly gateway to horror with its animated take on a Clive Barker story.
Clive Barker
Home Entertainment Review: Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (Bill Condon, 1995) – After the explosion of rubbery VHS horror in the 1980s, the 90s was a rough decade for the genre. The slasher icons were worn out, the biggest horror trend was adding a sense of irony that diluted genuine scares, and the direct-to-video market crossed the line […]
Listed: Five Great Gifts from Shout Factory
Looking for the perfect gift for the genre loving film and TV nerd in your life? Check out these five great gifts from Shout Factory.
Home Entertainment Review: Nightbreed and Lord of Illusions
Nightbreed & Lord Of Illusion (Clive Barker, 1990 and 1995, respectively) Shout Factory’s offshoot Scream Factory got into the horror movie business in a big bad way, not just hoping to become a new player in genre movie home entertainment, but intending to become the biggest game in town. Thus far, there’s no denying that […]
TIFF’s Birth of a Villain
Keeping with today's Halloween theme while looking ahead to next month, we take a look at and talk to Twitch's Todd Brown about his upcoming Birth of a Villain series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, tracing the history iconic horror movie villains of the 70s and 80s.
The New Old: America’s Sweethearts
While sick, one of our film critics went through a bunch of re-releases from the 80s and 90s from the 20th Century Fox archives (now being distributed by Anchor Bay). Without rhyme or reason he watched Ghost in the Machine, Six Pack, Hear No Evil, Jack the Bear, The Pirate Movie, Quicksilver Highways, Tough Enough, a made for TV remake of Vanishing Point, and former NFL great Howie Long's first starring role in Firestorm. We don't fully know why he did it , either, but some of them were good!
