Author: BaronCraze

Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972): 45yr Anniversary – By Baron Craze

There’s much more interesting than taking a trip back to watch a cult movie from the director who created the masterpieces of yin and yang of Christmas movies, Black Christmas [1974] and A Christmas Story (1983), none other than Bob Clark, with his first odd outing Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things. This frankly and…


Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) – By Baron Craze

This review originally published on the Rogue Cinema site, in December 2015, however present here with an update concerning the Blu-ray release from Shout Factory. First, this is one of the most offensive and notorious films of the early 1980s to storm on the silver screen concerning the holiday season, especially attacking the image of…


The Barn (2016) – By Baron Craze

Sometimes lightning strikes when the passion for nostalgic look back on 80s horror, even when a minuscule budget finances the entire movie, assisted by an Indiegogo campaign, and that fans, is what director Justin Seaman accomplished with his film The Barn. Justin, like many indie filmmakers wore many hats for his incredible authentic movie, such…


The Night Watchmen (2017) – By Baron Craze

Horror comedies are truly an interesting breed in the horror genre, they need to walk a careful balance beam regardless of what subgenre the mixture goes with, zombies, slashers, or vampires, many try to outdo themselves and others realize the limitations and play safely within the boundaries. While zombie films dominate the market for few…


Mortal Remains (2013) – By Baron Craze

A production company called Cryptic Pictures first created a documentary thriller, but because of the controversial methodology of how they ‘filmed it’, changed to the context of a shockumentary, before finally in 2013 nestled on Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres for the movie Mortal Remains. The filmmakers to lessons from those of The Blair Witch…


Psychostick: IV: Revenge of the Vengeance (2014) Music Review – By Baron Craze

Time to locate your sense of humor, as all music doesn’t need to always be silly, this time a band brings comedy into their music, and never once does it cover for a of lacking skills, their skills ranges through many genres thrash to death to power and rest on the baseline of heavy metal….


Amityville Exorcism (2017) – By Baron Craze

This review originally posted at The Horror Syndicate, however now presented with a few more critiques as it held the sole position for the worst production of 2017 in the horror genre, and it’s very difficult to call the movie a film, as it’s very abysmal. Perhaps aspiring filmmakers need to see this “film” as…


Night of Something Strange (2016) – By Baron Craze

Jonathan Straiton’s fun and quite insanely bizarre comedy horror, Night of Something Strange, took dedication to complete, as his project spanned almost four years, caught in both budget constraints and post-production issues; yet secured distribution through Hurricane Bridge Entertainment. He uses the assistance of writers Ron Bonk and Mean Gene to create a sickly gross…


Graj: Ashes (2017) Music Review – By Baron Craze

Graj a Russian folk metal based band (for those unaware the name means Bird’s Cry) which reinforces their folklore theme music released their fourth album, “Ashes” on Noizgate Records on a digipak, with a cover track of Rotting Christ’s ‘…Pir Threontai’ serving as the close-out song. Needless to say, they play various instruments to convey…


Beyond the 7th Door (1987) – By Baron Craze

Bozidar D. Benedikt, almost entirely dedicated himself to penning fiction, 20-novels (at least), largely for distribution in the former Yugoslavia, then turned writer/director for Beyond the 7th Door a sort of 1987 Canuxploitation thriller (according to some critics), even the IMDb states it’s of the horror genre, far from it. Although this flick thoroughly obscure,…