Yes, it’s another report on yet another LA-area Fangoria Weekend of Horrors. This year the event, which occurred on April 25-27, was moved from its usual cramped Pasadena/Burbank locations to the far spacier LA Convention Center–the West Hall to be exact, by itself about three times the size of the Burbank Hilton ballroom the [...]

Note: I initially set out to do a straightforward review of last year’s THE MIST, but quickly realized that adequately covering the film and the many issues it raises would take a far broader canvas.  Hence the following.      Frank Darabont’s THE MIST was the most widely debated horror movie of 2007.  [...]

Let’s start with THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Surely you remember that 1999 film, a no-budgeter that, due to ecstatic word of mouth and a then-unprecedented internet advertising campaign, became a full-blown phenomenon? Shot entirely in a dark forest with handheld digital cameras, many commentators believed it would usher in lots of similar fare in the [...]

Japanese Cyberpunk: for those familiar with the early-to-mid-nineties films of Shinya Tsukamoto and Shozin Fukui, those two words have a very particular connotation, promising an unflinching exploration of the darkest extremes of technology and madness.

2007: there’s not much to say, really, except the year’s now over and it’s time for my annual Best and Worst horror movies list. As always, it includes only those films commercially released theatrically or on DVD within the [...]

There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers of wildly divergent backgrounds and nationalities inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?
The seventies were of course a [...]

Without question, movie projection is a lost art. I say this as one who likes to see movies in theaters, projected on a big screen by a person who ideally knows what he or she is doing! However, my recent movie going has convinced me that today’s projectionists are not [...]

Another year, another Fangoria Weekend of Horrors. 2007’s Southern California Fango WoH was, like the previous year’s, an elaborate three-day event held at Burbank’s Airport Hilton (now Marriot) convention center from May 18-20. Burbank, a.k.a. the End [...]

On the morning of April 4, 2007, movie director Bob Clark was killed, together with his son Ariel, when a drunk driver swerved into the lane in which the two were driving on CA’s Pacific Coast Highway in the [...]

As long as there have been movies, it seems, there have been evangelical films. These days Christian moviemaking has gone mainstream somewhat, with slick, reasonably well-produced fare like THE OMEGA CODE, the LEFT BEHIND series and of course Mad Mel’s PASSION O’ THE CHRIST, but it wasn’t always that way!
Back in the old days [...]