Category: Archived Reviews

Sorrow (2015) – By Baron Craze

The company BrinkVision established themselves quickly with the releases of Basement Jack [2009], Cannibal Diner [2012] and Sorrow, from screenwriter and director Millie Loredo, a thriller, with horror overlays for the subtle fans of the genre. In the past the genre of horror women directors appeared a few times, a rarity, and wrongly overlooked in…


Wasteland (2013) – By Baron Craze

The zombie sub-genre allows for many innovating ways to convey a story, namely for first time feature director Tom Wadlow with extremely tight budgets and vastly limited sets to use in any manner needed, and yet still that doesn’t deter this project from achieving the completion from screenwriter Tommy Draper. As suggested, Wadlow has experience…


Kruel (2014) – By Baron Craze

Serving as both writer and director, Robert Henderson, brings forward a psychological thriller with very subtle hints of horror, but presents the dark emotional ride on an intense mischievous design, with cinematic dramatic overtones that pit a wayward teen against a monster, in the form of actor J.T. Chinn, and never let’s go the terrorizing…


Zombie Hood (2013) – By Baron Craze

Dedicated filmmaker Steve Best poured two years along with his loyal crew and cast to create not just another zombie flick, but also one with secret and hidden cues set in Nottingham (Nottinghamshire, England) and covered with flesh eating creatures and dozens of vicious children with new teething problems. In addition to him working and…


Zombie Evolution: The Understanding of the Film Species: Part 2 – By Baron Craze

As guaranteed as the constant roll out of new zombie flicks this article was to continue, with the virus inducing zombie plague, face it with the occurrence of Covid-19 some individuals hoped it was the apocalypse of all-time, and others used the lessons learned from these movies for survival; regardless  zombie virus bring new terrors…


Backtrack (2014) – By Baron Craze

A return to a popular sub-genre of late, Nazisploitation, in other words horror movies centered on the topic of most vile Nazis and whatever devilish actions that they have planned for humankind, and the film Backtrack from director Tom Sands and written by Mick Sands, takes new path deviating quite a bit from standard fare….


Dracula: The Impaler (2013) – By Baron Craze

Director Derek Hockenbrough, who is not unfamiliar with the horror genre having worked as actor on Camel Spiders [2011] under the direction of Jim Wynorski, and then teamed with writers Daniel Anghelcev, Steve Snyder, and Diana Angelson (who wrote and acted on her first horror film), luckily enough earned distribution with Midnight Releasing under the…


Zombie Undead (2010) – By Baron Craze

The sub-genre of horror films, which involves zombies, has truly hit an oversaturated level, there are television shows with spin-offs to almost weekly releases of a new story involving zombies, while normally this influence seen in the genre appears positive the outcome finds too many rotting corpses of production. Many filmmakers have tried to find…


Dead West (2016) – By Baron Craze

Filmmaker Jeff Ferrell found influence from screenwriter and director Eric Red, and many others for his version of a serial killer, named The Ladykiller in his latest movie, which uses the basis of psychology to understand and convey it to the audiences especially involving the topics of addiction to love and violence. This all filtered…


Neverlake (2013) – By Baron Craze

It is always refreshing when a horror film, places itself in or near a true historical area, and herein, the location, The Lake of Idols, plays significantly into director Riccardo Paoletti’s first horror film, and enhanced wonderfully by a sculpture screenplay from Manuela Cacciamani and Carlo Longo. Although Manuela brings the experience of the genre…