Month: August 2018

13 Horrors on Amazon Prime – By Baron Craze

I’ll be honest for a long time I refused to partake in the VOD paid services, I focused on actual physical DVD/Blu-rays while occasional dabbling in the free online sites such as YouTube, Tubi, Hulu and countless others. However, one day laid up in bed with a cold I decided to try out Amazon Prime,…


The Grand Son Press Release

The Grand Son, starring The Purge’s Rhys Wakefield, makes a killing this August!   Step aside Patrick Bateman. The Purge’s Rhys Wakefield hatches a killer plan in The Grand Son, premiering on digital this August from Uncork’d Entertainment. Award-winning filmmaker Robert Logevall and writer Abram Makowka invite you to experience a young man’s descent into decadence and…


Editor’s Greeting for August 2018

As one can see we blew by the August 20th due date, and again publishing at the month’s end, with a few reviews having an embargo against them, for marketing reasons, we even pushed past that deadline date. After everything I took a week’s vacation to Johnstown, PA and didn’t work, sometimes one needs a…


Dark Roads 79 (2017) – By Baron Craze

Director and writer Chase Smith, a talent horror creator, and fine actor along with his firm Spirit World Productions, brings together a suspenseful and actually surprising twist on a slasher subgenre meeting devil possession tale set in 1979. Assisting Chase in the writing duties Richard Krevolin, and based the initial concept from a scenario by…


The Forest of the Lost Souls (2017) – By Baron Craze

An excerpt of a suicide note is how The Forest of the Lost Souls starts, from first feature director and writer José Pedro Lopes (World of Death [2016]), with his Portuguese flick done in black and white. This arthouse horror drama gives deep penetrating drama, depressive however, this movie simmers slowly, with a limited cast, as it…


Minutes to Midnight (2018) – By Baron Craze

  A nice independent slasher from director by Christopher Ray (Circus Kane [2017]) from a script co-written with Victoria Dadi (A House Is Not a Home [2015]) and Christopher M. Don, delivers creative killers and a large body count. While using the masks, they’re a happy murdering family, ready to hack and slash their way…


Department 56 Unleashing A Kooky Time for 2018 – By Baron Craze

As Halloween 2018, fast approaches, collectors and lovers of the holiday gear up for it, each person getting the treasured items for their version, some purchasing big props, scary screams, or animatronics, others enjoy a calmer version, whichever is the case there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Anyone familiar with the company Department 56 knows…


Along Came the Devil (2018) – By Baron Craze

Before I begin this review, allow a moment to understand the concepts of both Religious Horror and Occult stories, both exist and have rightfully places in the horror genre, often enough the occult tales find themselves under the religious and yet crossing over into paranormal films. However, when mixing (demonic) possession movies, many times the…


Summer of 84 (2018) – By Baron Craze

Many filmmakers of late enjoy doing a retro piece, a throwback, however they prove difficult with regard to lingo, but the when directing trio François Simard, Anouk, and Yoann-Karl Whissell aka RKSS (Roadkill Superstar), and screenwriters Matt Leslie and Stephen J. Smith display their influences it seems to breathe new life into these productions. This movie bases itself on a simple fact…


Trench 11 (2017) – By Baron Craze

Taking tips from Alien, John Carpenter’s The Thing, throwing in a dash of 28 Days Later and then the classic Steve McQueen’s The Great Escape (1963) and you find a weird horror film from Canada called Trench 11. All of this wrapped up in director and writer Leo Scherman responsible for many television episodes including twelve…