tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42951294225581049192024-03-04T23:05:55.221-05:00Monster Chiller Horror TheatreA blog exploring the sexy, shocking, surreal, and silly side of horror films with a focus on offbeat VHS cover art.ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-41774296900477244612011-10-22T03:20:00.001-04:002011-12-13T14:44:14.097-05:00Father's Day (Review: World Premiere)
Father's Day (2011)
By Astron 6
(Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy, and Conor Sweeney)
I have just returned from the Toronto After Dark Film Festival's world premiere screening of Astron-6's FATHER'S DAY. I'm still picking my face off the floor. If Father's Day doesn't explode in popularity among fans of weird trash cinema, then there is no justice in this world.
Like aZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-73120186006808258242011-10-13T22:45:00.000-04:002011-10-13T22:49:13.430-04:00History Repeating: THE THING about Bad Reviews
The reviews for the prequel/remake of John Carpenter's The Thing are starting to come in. Is anyone else getting a strong feeling of deja vu here? Some THING strange is going on.
On the eve of its release, the 2011 version of The Thing is already garnering plenty of negative criticism from mainstream critics and horror critics. Funnily enough, I'm reminded of how Carpenter's The Thing was ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-7087792291348155602011-09-29T13:26:00.002-04:002011-09-29T13:27:22.384-04:00"The App Killer" -- Help fund a new horror film
What are the odds that I'd write two entries this week about movies where killers use apps to find their victims?
If the idea appeals to you, you can help make a filmmaker's dream a reality. Director Pau Masó is raising funds on IndieGoGo for his new project, The App Killer, which he describes as Saw meets Hostel meets Scream.
By contributing to his project, you can claim some nice ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-17385333979451014272011-09-28T22:50:00.001-04:002011-09-28T22:51:14.871-04:00X Marks the Spot (Short Film Review)
Review: X Marks the Spot (2011)
[Short film]
Director : Travis Legge
Looking to murder some vulnerable young women? There's an app for that!
In X Marks the Spot, the twisted short film from Twisted Central Productions, Abigail is a young woman addicted to the Friend Tracker app on her Blackberry. She won't get off the damn thing. She should have listened to the privacy warnings from her ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-28982373309570883672011-09-12T01:33:00.000-04:002011-09-12T01:49:23.881-04:00Fiend Without a Face (Review)
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Director: Arthur Crabtree
British science fiction films only flourished for a brief period of time, and British sci-fi / horror was on the scene for even less. As a result, a classic like Fiend Without a Face shines even brighter in the back catalog of genre cinema. Sincere, unexpected, and unprecedentedly grisly, Fiend Without a Face is the best of the ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-22163477907648634242011-08-24T23:15:00.000-04:002011-08-24T23:15:14.435-04:00Ninjas vs. Vampires (Review)
Ninjas vs. Vampires (2010)
Director: Justin Timpane
Ninjas vs. Vampires is already available on DVD in North America, but it is being released on Aug 29th in the UK from LEFT Films. I missed this film on its initial North American release, so the good people at LEFT Films hooked me up with a screener.
Let me preface this review by saying that movies like Ninjas vs. VampiresZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-66472035512890434672011-06-10T11:30:00.001-04:002011-06-10T11:30:01.622-04:00Creep Reel: Wild Beasts (1984)Zoo animals high on PCP escape and go on a mad killing spree in the city.
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-90621320472308589522011-06-09T11:30:00.000-04:002011-06-09T11:30:02.576-04:00Creep Reel: Stage Fright (1987)I won't lie. This one looks like a hoot.
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-8094409791319128582011-06-08T11:30:00.000-04:002011-06-08T11:30:00.295-04:00Creep Reel: Night of the Bloody Apes (1972)Get your stinkin' paws off me, you damn BLOODY APES!
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-81131988229402518392011-06-07T11:30:00.000-04:002011-06-07T11:30:03.019-04:00Creep Reel: The Forest (1983)What begins as a night under the stars becomes a nightmare.....in The Forest.
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-77410381435174449482011-06-06T13:00:00.001-04:002011-06-06T13:00:03.383-04:00Creep Reel: Bad Dreams (1988) Starring Jennifer Rubin and Richard Lynch
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-81961262802352569022011-06-06T10:00:00.001-04:002011-06-06T10:00:13.156-04:00Tom Savini's Reaction to Two Girls, One CupIt seems that even the master of horror makeup effects is not immune to the horrors of the internet.
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-46575725369046365022011-05-30T01:57:00.000-04:002011-05-30T01:57:28.272-04:00Night of the Pumpkin (Review)
Night of the Pumpkin (2010)
Director: Bill Zebub
SYNOPSIS
At
the beach, a pumpkin washes ashore and is promptly and cruelly destroyed by two young women frolicking on the sand. When they crush the pumpkin, their legs become covered in an inexplicable red liquid. Fast forward to mischief night when
these same two women and their friends find themselves being stalked by a
killer ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-6291659265737709342011-05-22T10:00:00.000-04:002011-05-22T10:00:01.363-04:00Creep Reel: Offerings (1989)He's cutting into their social life.
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-32884575041688844782011-05-20T10:00:00.000-04:002011-05-20T10:00:13.181-04:00Creep Reel: Crawl Space (1986)Between the wall and hell.....crawlspace.
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-64808499474690551712011-05-18T10:00:00.000-04:002011-05-18T10:00:11.070-04:00Creep Reel: The Willies (1991).SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! This trailer ruins everything.
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-41096317260878902822011-05-16T10:00:00.000-04:002011-05-16T10:00:01.409-04:00Creep Reel: The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
You better invest in Scotchgard!ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-35296330843446400672011-05-14T10:00:00.004-04:002011-05-14T10:00:04.951-04:00Creep Reel: Monster on the Campus (1958)
It's DE-EVOLUTION, baby!ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-74526432622612092812011-05-13T12:41:00.000-04:002011-05-13T12:41:29.715-04:00Jason Voorhees vs. Arsenio Hall
On the promotion circuit for Jason Takes Manhattan.ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-14979871180274463852011-04-29T14:13:00.004-04:002011-04-29T14:48:10.823-04:00Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (Review)
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987)
(aka. The Edge of Hell)
Director: John Fasano
You can't call really consider yourself a red-blooded Canadian fan of exploitation and trash cinema until you've put down your hockey stick, set aside that Tim Horton's, and popped in a copy of the ridiculously bizarre Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare starring Canadian god of glam metal: Jon Mikl Thor. Through The ZedZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-35330836061253114842011-04-19T01:03:00.002-04:002011-04-19T01:10:01.146-04:00Warlock (Review)
Warlock (1989)
Director: Steve Miner
While Harry Potter fever once again grips video stores upon the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I on DVD, I turn my attention to a different tale of witchcraft and wizardry: Warlock. Released in 1989, Warlock was a film I never had opportunity to see as a kid although my friends who rented it used to talk about it. 22 ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-13179847858227269412011-04-18T23:39:00.001-04:002011-04-19T00:13:54.914-04:00Insidious (Review)
Insidious (2010)
Director: James Wan
I love a good ghost yarn. However, after Poltergeist, The Changeling, The Amityville Horror, and countless other films including the influx of Japanese ghost stories like The Ring, is there really any new ground to be broken in the sub-genre? Insidious, the new horror film from Saw collaborators James Wan and Leigh Whannell, was finally ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-32235782673456101742011-04-18T13:36:00.003-04:002011-04-18T13:37:55.364-04:00100 Horror Movie Spoilers in 5 Minutes (video)Um, need I say "spoiler alert" ?
ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-38737399415724812892011-02-28T15:52:00.001-05:002011-02-28T15:53:15.623-05:00DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE @ Toronto Underground Cinema
Who will stand up for the criticized, the panned, and the hated? Which movie critics are brave enough to DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE?
Starting March 4th, The Toronto Underground Cinema will be host to an exciting, new monthly film series: DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE. The series is a monthly examination of overlooked, panned, and shunned films defended by local film scholars, writers, and ZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4295129422558104919.post-73072338354325268212011-02-09T22:42:00.001-05:002011-02-09T22:42:59.103-05:00Gamera Saftey DanceOne of the reasons things have been quiet here on the blog front is that I've become engrossed in amassing and watching kaiju (giant Japanese monster) films such as the Toho Godzilla series. Along the way, I've fallen in love with a goofy, jet-propelled turtle named Gamera and Shout! Factory's superb releases of the original Gamera series on DVD.
So, to note the fact that I'm spending much of myZedWordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.com0