J.R. Bookwalter

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Side Effects May Vary: The Dead Next Door director J.R. Bookwalter returns with a sci-fi horror comedy

Posted 2 years ago

The Dead Next Door and Robot Ninja director J.R. Bookwalter returns with Side Effects May Vary, now available for Blu-ray pre-order

Skinned Alive, starring Evil Dead II’s Scott Spiegel, comes to Blu-ray

Posted 5 years ago

Although writer/director Jon Killough's SKINNED ALIVE was released on VHS in 1990, I didn't have a chance to see it until it reached DVD in 2002 – and that's when it became one of my all-time favorite low budget horror movies....

J.R. Bookwalter brings his SOV cult classic Ozone to Blu-ray

Posted 5 years ago

If you followed the indie horror scene at any point in the last thirty years, you might be familiar with J.R. Bookwalter and his company Tempe. I have been fascinated by Bookwalter's work since I was a kid, especially since...

Love conquers death in Her Name Was Christa teaser trailer

Posted 7 years ago

James L. Edwards has been part of the indie scene since the mid-'80s, when he got involved in the making of director J.R. Bookwalter's zombie epic THE DEAD NEXT DOOR, beginning a collaboration that would continue into the late '90s,...

Clip previews the HD restoration of J.R. Bookwalter’s Robot Ninja

Posted 7 years ago

A couple years ago, J.R. Bookwalter gave the special edition Blu-ray treatment to his 1989 debut feature film THE DEAD NEXT DOOR (which Sam Raimi not-so-secretly had a hand in). If you'd still like to pick one up, copies of...

Robot Ninja will kick ass on a 30th anniversary Blu-ray release

Posted 8 years ago

A few years ago, director J.R. Bookwalter assembled an awesome Ultimate Edition Blu-ray release for his cult classic, Sam Raimi-funded feature debut, the 1989 zombie film THE DEAD NEXT DOOR. Now he's working on a Blu-ray release of his notorious sophomore effort,...

Blu-ray of cult classic The Dead Next Door up for pre-order on Indiegogo

Posted 11 years ago

An Ohio native, I have long been fascinated and inspired by the work independent filmmaker J.R. Bookwalter did in our home state through the '80s and '90s, directing and/or producing such low budget gems as POLYMORPH, ZOMBIE COP, KINGDOM OF...