Admirable more for its attention to detail and a sense of class regarding true-life murders than for any sort of wall-to-wall mayhem, The Town that Dreaded Sundown is a fascinating little obscurity that horror fans would be well advised to check out at least once.
Scott Weinberg
05/03/2013 - 1:00pm
Equal parts lurid shocker with outrageous gore and sly satire with an actual sense of fanboy sweetness beneath all the ugliness, Father's Day is both an homage to and a satire of everything from low-budget exploitation obscurities to the best (worst?) of the Troma flicks you can vaguely remember from your adolescence.
05/02/2013 - 12:00pm
It's hard to imagine the Phantasm fan who prefers the sequel over the original, but if this kooky little horror flick holds a place in your nostalgia vault, this blu-ray is a no-brainer acquisition.
05/01/2013 - 2:00pm
Although probably best described as a "for fans only" blu-ray package, there's no denying that this late-era Hammer Horror treat has been digitally preserved in very fine fashion.
04/30/2013 - 3:00pm
If you don't mind your indie thrillers a bit odd, intelligent, and slyly mysterious, odds are you'll find something interesting in this one.
04/25/2013 - 6:30pm
A dour and quiet high school girl has a secret crush on a handsome and athletic boy, but since she can't have him she snaps and starts killing people all around the poor good-lookin' idiot. Sound familiar? Novel? Exciting?
04/24/2013 - 5:00pm
It's hard to know what to make of the indie horror satire Bad Kids Go to Hell simply because the flick has no freaking idea what it is.
04/22/2013 - 2:00pm
We certainly don't get a whole lot of horror films from Israel, so when one called Rabies (aka Kalevet) hit the festival circuit a few years ago I made sure to give it a bit of a spotlight. Fortunately for all involved the debut film from Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado was a dark and novel little treat, one that had no problem combing its own tone and attitude with some obvious inspirations from American horror films of the 1980s. Now the duo has returned with another devious delicacy.
04/17/2013 - 4:00pm
Hats off to Scream Factory for treating '80s horror films like classic cinema. To a lot of us, they are.
04/15/2013 - 11:00am
It's a Disaster is an acidic farce about a Sunday brunch that's promptly interrupted by news of a nearby nuclear attack