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CON:J.Brooks/Laid2Rest

As this is my first year at the CON, this also happened to be the first of many panels I’ll be attending–Anchor Bay’s JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER. As a HUGE fan of monster movies, especially fun monster movies, I knew...
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Fest: Fantasia

This year’s FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL is now finito. Although work outside the site resulted in me being mostly absent from the Fest, I still managed to meet up with some old friends, made news ones, hooked up with some AITH...
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Jack Brooks:Trailer

We’ve been keeping you all updated on JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER for a while now, mainly because it looks like it can actually be pretty damn cool. The premise has a plumber battling demons, ghouls, and the like. Here’s a...
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Jack Brooks trailer

Anchor Bay’s low-budget crowd-pleaser JACK BROOKS, MONSTER SLAYER is getting ready to stomp audiences with a beast-battling blast involving genre veteran Robert Englund, flailing tentacles, a couple of hot chicks, and various creatures in old-school latex makeup. The official breakdown:...
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Fantasia begins!

As I’m sure you all know by now, the stupendous Fantasia Film Festival occuring in Montreal is upon us. The Arrow wrote about it here and yours truly wrote about it here. And TODAY, July 1st, marks the official start...
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Show Us Your Shit #26

This latest column on the DVD CLINIC asks YOU to be participate and yes, ladies and germs….SHOW US YOUR SHIT!! If you’ve got a cool collection of DVDs, movie posters, toys, comic books, figurines, an awesome home theater set-up that...
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Elm Street scribes

The folks at Platinum Dunes are looking to score their dream-team of writers for the planned remake/re-whatever-ing of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. And who are these two scribes? Why, it’s Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (the dudes who wrote...
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Magnolia sees Red

Variety announced this morning that Magnolia Pictures has picked up the distribution rights to the Lucky McGee / Trygve Diesen directed RED, based on the novel by Jack Ketchum (adapted to the screen by Stephen Susco). So what’s RED all...
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Review: Zombie Strippers

PLOT: A secret government facility is the scene of a deadly “chemo-virus” outbreak, enabling the dead to become hungry monsters… Since apparently the lab is in the same building as “Rhino’s,” a sleazy strip club, it’s Dead Babes Dancing before...
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