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Ghostbusters (1984) – By Baron Craze

I afforded the opportunity to watch director Ivan Reitman’s classic 1984 Ghostbusters flick, it like Gremlins released on the same day, was something I missed at the theaters when I was a child; if one wonders why, wait for my autobiography. Needless to say, I have seen it countless times on the small screen, enjoying…


An Evening with Prowler Horror Fans – By Baron Craze

  I had the opportunity to attend a special engagement of The Prowler (1981) an obscure and to some a film that fell through the cracks of time, it was a movie of the beloved slasher gory glory years, which was airing in Cape May, NJ. The event was arranged by Kenny Caperton, a super…


Godzilla (1954) – By Baron Craze

First, it is great pleasure I review this film, I thoroughly enjoy creature features and cryptozoology movies, but also one that incorporates part of real-life history into the backstory of the movie, and herein that World War II and the dreadful creation of the atomic bomb. I’ve mentioned before in other reviews the importance of…


NJ Horror Con and Film Fest Oct 2019 Review – By Baron Craze

Well, once again horror fans, friends, and fiends Ryan Scott Weber’s New Jersey Horror Bash took over the Showboat Hotel, in Atlantic City for 3 days, however this past event had a few wrinkles but never threatened the incredible showmanship the team did their best to strive forward and present another great show. Before discussing…


Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) – By Baron Craze

While technically it’s after the holiday of Halloween, it truly appears that this franchise of the same name is the only one that is continuing onward with theatrical releases. After the less than welcoming Halloween: Season of the Witch [1983], which now is finding a love affair with the fans, it seems as if the…


Horror Icon: Edgar Allan Poe – By Baron Craze

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers, madness and other mysterious consequences involving cats, graveyards and haunting deaths. Poe, refers to likely the most influential American authors and writers of the 19th century, and non-other than Edgar Allan Poe. He was the first author to actually attempt to make a living wage solely…


The Bat (1959) – By Baron Craze

This film The Bat has flown an interesting winding path in the horror genre, it’s one that took flight as a novel in 1908 called The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart (The Unknown [1927]), which she later developed into a stage play, with Avery Hopwood in 1920 and spawned a few movies, before rising…


Happy Birthday to Scooby Doo: You’re 50! – By Baron Craze

This famed franchise is celebrating 50 years since the first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? aired on CBS, September 13, 1969; with the Saturday morning cartoon launching an incredible and still on-going marathon. It has spun multiple spin-off series, original animated and live action films, consumer products and much more. Now, some likely to state…


NJ Horror Con and Film Festival Unleashes the Monsters in Oct 2019

On October 11th, New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival unleashes its Monsters upon the Showboat once again in Atlantic City, NJ, the sixth time the wild event spirals out of control, for those that can recall, their earlier session was in March of this year, clearly noting the huge crowds and well everyone found…


Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) – By Baron Craze

In a decade that saw the boom of slasher glory in 1980, sadly started heavily waning in by the end of 1989, with the big three fan favorites franchises more mundane sequels of A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers and then Friday the 13th Part VIII:…