Author: BaronCraze

Occupation (2018) – By Baron Craze

When horror and sci-fi fans see cinema from Australia, it often fits into the Ozploitation genre with movies such as The Survivor (1981), but director and writer Luke Sparke (Red Billabong [2016]) presents this independent film Occupation from Saban Films. Sparke takes inspiration from many action, sci-fi movies and television series, such as blending together…


House of Salem (2016) – By Baron Craze

The occult horror subgenre, a strange attraction for the horror and thriller fans, it attracts so many viewers, that mysterious appeal, enhancing each film in a different manner. Director and writer James Crow (Nightmare on 34th Street [2017]), mixes a strange potion of British crime thriller and supernatural horror twists, yet keeps everything in a…


DOA Review: 5-Headed Shark Attack (2017) – By Baron Craze

Well this month, and the 30th Anniversary of Shark Week, felt it was only proper to venture down to the coast that borders one side of the DOA graveyard, to the other side there’s swamp, however not going to tell what else surrounds these wretched grounds. Hence I located another hideous creation, masking itself with…


Escape From Cannibal Farm (2017) – By Baron Craze

This film from director and writer Charlie Steeds is clearly influenced by the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, earning release on Video on Demand via High Octane Pictures, and thanks to Dark Temple Motion Pictures production isn’t overly reliant on gore, but delivers on some low-level thrills while attempting not to foreshadow too much.  Steeds shows…


The Devil’s Well (2017) – By Baron Craze

An interesting spin in the crowded found footage movies, this time embarking on the tale of visiting a supposedly haunted basement in an abandoned building, okay not an original location, they can’t all be Eastern State Penitentiary. However, writer and director Kurtis Spieler (Sheep Skin [2013]) delves into a paranormal and Satanism, and actually contains…


The Sentinel (1977): Still Guarding Against Evil – By Baron Craze

In the seventies, a slew of occult movies flooded the market, most hatched from novels, those among the books The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby and others, but then there’s author Jeffrey Konvitz’s contribution of sinister religious overtones with his 1974 creation of The Sentinel. Three years later director Michael Winner delivered a strange horror film, which…


Blood Punch (2013) – By Baron Craze

Madellaine Paxson serves a director of this fascinating horror film, from talented screenwriter Eddie Guzelian, delivering a twisted horror version of Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day (1993) and Happy Death Day [2017], from the low budgeted indie market that pleases the audience in many ways. But what is more satisfying being the background of this team,…


INFRARED Premiere Video Father of Lies

80’s Thrashers INFRARED Premiere Video “Father of Lies” via Decibel Magazine New Album “Saviours” Out Now! Ottawa Show Date Venom Inc. (Sept 3) For fans of a mix of the Big 4, Testament, Exodus, Metal Church, SOD   Making an impact on the Canadian’s 80s thrash scene, Ottawa legends INFRARED returned this year to cement and carry on…


Heidi (2014) – By Baron Craze

A low budgeted offering of a creepy doll named Heidi as one already knows it’s a vindictive and thoroughly possessed doll, but not in the sense of Chucky, rather more guarded and eager to inflict harm than just wanting to play. This is a found footage horror film produced by Neon Mirage, written and directed by…


Great Leap Skyward New Release

Self-Titled Single Off Upcoming Album ‘Map Of Broken Dreams’ Australian progressive metal supergroup Great Leap Skyward have released ‘Great Leap Skyward’ – the second single from their upcoming record ‘Map Of Broken Dreams’, out August 31st via Metalapolis Records. The self-titled track is a journey through groove, prog and heavy metal to create a wall of sound that…