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Night of Horror Celebration – By Baron Craze

I had an interesting opportunity this month to discover new filmmakers making their mark in the horror genre, and revisit with old friends, at the Cinemug in Philadelphia, PA, on May 19th, the location small and rather intimate allowing for artists to mingle and share their various expressions of horror creations. The night brought a…


Playground (2016) – By Baron Craze

Playground (Placzaba (original title)), co-written by Stanislaw Warwas and directed by Bartosz Kowalski, presents a bold piece of Polish cinema, while not excessive in blood or gore, does generate a disturbing storyline. One needs to note that the movie takes cues of a real-life tragedy from an infamous crime in England that occurred 25-years ago,…


Hunting Lands Press Release

Zack Wilcox’s Hunting Lands Screens at Newport Beach A Reclusive Hermit Has a Violent Confrontation With the Injustices of the Outside World   Newport Beach, CA – APS Films has announced the next screening of Zack Wilcox’s Hunting Lands at the 19th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival.  Set and shot in the backdrop of a Midwestern winter, the film follows a group…


Pool Party Massacre (2017) – By Baron Craze

Drew Marvick, directed, wrote, starred and wore a few other hats during the production of this fun and bloody passion for the slasher subgenre. He implemented the three key aspects often found in these movies nudity, sex and violence (not necessary in that order, but very common) all to make a slasher standout among countless…


PACT: Enigmata (2018) Music Review – By Baron Craze

When it comes to the subgenre of black metal often enough a wide chasm exists, filled with bands mixing both death and speed metal however some venture into a more sinister role, such is the case with the band PACT. They incorporate strong occult themes, though not a black mass, a few bands hint in…


DOA Review: Zombie Island Massacre (1984) – By Baron Craze

CASE NUMBER: #107 First, technically no zombies exist in the overall concept of the film, I know it says zombie and massacre, these words merely used out of context, for example while the movie shows one undead creature its quickly disposed of thereby ending the attack. The zombie in this flick relates to the voodoo…


Revisiting Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood 30-years later – By Baron Craze

Most horror fans know of the Friday the 13th movie series, backwards and forwards, some have podcasts drenched in the storyline, others crave more movie collectibles on the topic with each passing year.  The original owners of the production rights never thought that the one movie, Friday the 13th (1980) would create a money explosion…


At Granny’s House (2015) – By Baron Craze

Les Mahoney explored wrote, directed and played an important role in the film as he took a real-life situation of tragedy plaguing many elderly people, rising costs, scammed and abuse, and turns it into a thriller and homage to Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). At Granny’s House, distributed by Indie Rights, delivers a solid story, but not…


Cradle of Filth: Cruelty and the Beast (1998) Retro Music Review – By Baron Craze

On May 5, Cradle of Filth’s Cruelty and the Beast album celebrated its 20th anniversary originally released by the label Music for Nations, its third full-length release from them, which provided a small window for fans to explore both gothic and black metal. Although CoF never truly had set a genre stretching from Death to Symphonic…


Cadaver Putrefacto: La Maldicion Del Zombie Errante (2017) Music Review – By Baron Craze

This definitely is not for those who dislike Death Metal, this subgenre takes a unique position with the metal realm, but with music expanding in every direction and worldwide, a new creation came from Argentinian its Cadaver Putrefacto. They reformed in 2015 after some time of nothingness, releasing a demo in 2016 and then released…