Loron Hays

Six friends. A remote part of Illinois. Snowmobiles. And a Satanic Cult. I mean, what could go wrong? The Chill Factor , produced and directed by Christopher Webster (the producer of Hellraiser , Heat...
They have nine lives, we have one! Strays begins with a full moon. The dark night expands as we drop to the ground and, rather suddenly, we are running through the night. The POV is that of a cat. Clo...
Sometimes, that feeling of being watched is not wrong. Amy and the Alien , a once favorite show on a cartoon network, is teetering on the verge of cancellation. Only two seasons in and it’s do or die...
A magical Motown martial arts movie? Oh, hell, YES! In fact, can I hear a “Sho’nuff” and an amen!...
Black Belts in shotgun? Bombs on boomerangs? Hell, yes. So what if the lead character can’t shoot straight?! When you are having this much fun, who really cares?...
Die, Monster, Die! It seems to me that the Horror Anthology, once popular in the 1960s, is making a surprising and rather strong comeback in recent years. There have been a lot of good, independent fe...
Otherwise known as When Meteors Attack!!! Laugh all you want to, but there are moments – especially in deep space – when flying saucers drifting through clouds as meteors rip right behind them will ha...
Big Guns. Even bigger boobs. Loaded with scenes so hysterically full of sexual innuendo that go on for far longer than they ought to, director Andy Sidaris returns to the scene of his B-movie crimes a...
Vampire plants! Gigantic eggs! And a really BIG moth! That’s right, Mothra is happening all over again . . . except this time its satire and its science fiction can be viewed in sparkling blu-ray....
The hair. The metal. The attitude. And the satanic rituals. Black Bridge , written and directed by Kevin Doherty ( Lights Camera BLOOD! ), is a brutally funny look back at a time from my youth when pa...
What’s that funny thing behind the barn? That’s what Jenny ( Natasha Ryan , in a performance that steals the picture away from the rest of the cast) wants to know. It’s green; it glows; it makes noise...
Award-winning director David Ryan Keith (of T he Redwood Massacre and Ghosts of Darkness fame) is back with his new mind-trip of a horror film. While not as sharp as his other films, The Dark Within i...
There is a lot I remember from originally seeing The Believers in 1987 for the first time. That was years ago, but the thing that struck me – and continues to be striking (especially after watching th...
We all know that college can change a young man. Most of us revert into sex-starved beasts on the prowl. Some of us conform to the peer pressure around us. Regardless of the good or the bad, life on a...
Writer/Director Fred Dekker is a hero of mine when it comes to making memorable films. From Night of the Creeps to Monster Squad , Dekker has created some of my all-time favorites. It would be hard to...