AMC’s zombie sensation The Walking Dead might be getting a serious scare injection on its writing staff for next season. Iconic horror novelist Stephen King has confirmed that he’s currently in talks to write an episode of the post-apocalyptic series. Dead is executive-produced by Frank Darabont, who has directed three films based on King’s work
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Blackout 2010 By Jason Marsiglia 3 out of 4 After brutally stabbing her abusive husband to death, a young woman named Sarah sits in an interrogation room attempting to convince the cops the murder was in self-defense. She’s able to leave for the time being, but the police just aren’t sure of her innocence. Once
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Leprechaun 1993 By Jason Marsiglia 2 out of 4 You’re fighting an uphill battle already when you’ve plopped a movie called Leprechaun in front of me (especially in this case, as I seem to remember seeing it in theaters, so…shame on me, I guess). The word only conjures up the goofy image of a little
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Hatchet 2006 By Jason Marsiglia 3.5 out of 4 Adam Green’s Hatchet is as refreshing a horror film as old-school horror fans are apt to see and certainly the most fun, and its not for anything spectacular either. Hatchet doesn’t play with conventions, it doesn’t turn the genre on its head and try to show
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By Thomas Smith Last year’s big-budget remake of The Wolfman had its fair share of production problems. With changing directors, shuffled release dates, score and effects issues, and studio re-edits, it’s a miracle the movie was ever released. What audiences got was an okay take on a cinematic classic, but those production problems were
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BLACKOUT Episode #8 Season Finale Written, Produced and Directed by Robert J. Massetti Starring Jon Fish and Katharine Leis With Nick Colomeo, Rick Michaels, Bob Glazier and Trish Dempsey
‘Burbs, The 1989 By Jason Marsiglia 3.5 out of 4 Let’s say that you live directly next door to a reclusive family whose house reminds you of the “Addams’” property, whose yard is a dirt patch with dead leaves (in the summer) and every night around the same time, strange light and sounds come
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By Thomas Smith Tobe Hooper’s claim to fame lies with the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the film that introduced Leatherface to pop culture and made Texas even more frightening than it already is. Though he’s directed plenty of films since that horror milestone, none have met with the same success critically or commercially. Sure,
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Student Bodies 1981 By Jason Marsiglia 2 out of 4 1980 gave us two films that changed cinema forever. 1) Friday the 13th – a balls-out slasher film that taught us that even a lack of subtlety could be scary, splashing blood at us from every angle, revolutionizing gore effects for a new generation,
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