Tag: Archived Review

Tarantula (1955): Still Crawling – By Baron Craze

During the 1950s the horror movie industry took to the atomic age like bees to honey, with incredible monstrous tales, while people worldwide contemplating the fears of nuclear holocausts, it was a great moment for filmmakers to exploit the fears of many, something the genre has hardwired into the psyche of the fans. Tarantula marks…


The St. Francisville Experiment (2000) – By Baron Craze

Director Ted Nicolaou, a master of low-budget horror films whose most recent film came out in 2012 known as DevilDolls and started his journey with TerrorVision [1986], takes on the found footage genre with a brief 79-minute film, called The St. Francisville Experiment, concerning the historical figure Madame LaLaurie’s horrid life. The filming takes place…


Zombie Strippers! (2008) – By Baron Craze

Without a doubt this film definitely fits into the category of b-movies it contains everything associated with the content, insane title, gore, plenty of T&A, campy dialogue, silly aspects galore, low budget, and  mentality driven straight at a certain segment of horror fans, you know who you are, no hiding. Directed and written by Jay…


Muck (2015) – By Baron Craze

Muck, comes from a successful crowd-funding Kickstarter campaign resulting in over $200,000 donated dollars, to assisted director, Steven Wolsh with presenting the second film, of a three-part trilogy, and fret not, no one missed the first part (the prequel) not yet filmed. Steven throws the audience into the storyline, already is in progress, with nothing…


Chupacabra Territory (2016) – By Baron Craze

Cryptozoology definitely holds a special place in the horror genre; so many films filter into both the urban legends and creature feature subgenres, normally Bigfoot and Yeti, stretching over to The Jersey Devil, and only recently did author Hunter Shea deliver a scary thrill ride on New Jersey’s fabled monster. Nevertheless, a new creature now…


Bombshell Bloodbath (2014) – By Baron Craze

Serving as both director and co-screenwriter with Sky Tilley, Brett Mullen presents an interesting wrinkle into the zombie genre; with this homage film to some very well and often overlooked Italian gore epic undead movies, and an added treat for horror fans thoroughly to enjoy. This film switches gears sometimes abruptly to jolt the viewer…


Condemned (2015) – By Baron Craze

Director Eli Morgan Genser makes his feature film debut with his own script of a sickening story filled with many gag inducing elements, but doesn’t lead into the realm of torture porn, rather develops an interesting splatter punk and gore hound delight all from a man whose previous work centered on the documentaries. His movie…


Grizzly (1976) – By Baron Craze

The b-movie Grizzly celebrates its 43rd anniversary so let’s recap a film which duplicates Jaws [1975], and is also the first horror film I saw by myself as a child. I know it dates me; however, this Horror Historian has gone onto view the early portion of the genre and covering sub-genres, legendary careers and…


Psychomania (1973) – By Baron Craze

Psychomania, a cult classic film, known to some as The Death Wheelers to both horror fans and cinemagoers in general obtains a brand new re-release from Arrow Video, a movie, which bikers enjoy; and yet continues to evade the capture from incarceration obscurity. This movie definitely lies in the murky depths crossing wildly over multiple…


Countess Dracula (1971) – By Baron Craze

Director Peter Sasdy is known to many horror aficionados in particular Hammer Films which include Taste the Blood of Dracula [1970] and Hands of the Ripper [1971] and returned with the classic gothic horror tale Countess Dracula based on historical events. The tale of Elizabeth Bathory, an aging countess used the blood of virgins to…