Loron Hays

Camp Clear Vista is now hiring! If you have a love for giving kids the time of their lives over summer vacation then this is the job for you. It also helps if you have a love for horror films and long...
This is a movie for anyone who has ever sent a voice message to themselves. Whether a warning or a reminder, there’s always an interesting collision of realities that occurs when the past offers insig...
To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie . It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by...
Slaughterhouse. Four Eyes. Know those names. Clocking in at 86-minutes of sweat- inducing space madness, Crossbreed will straight up kick your ass. No, it isn’t another exercise craze with fancy names...
Okay, okay, okay, Uranium deals in East Africa might not sound all that exciting, but when your business associates are Humphrey Bogart, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones ,...
No matter how many times it is said, the cosmic g-funk sounds of vaporwave are not dead. Fake news, y’all. That blissed-out merging of MALL MUSIC MUZAK, constant online consumerism, and sweet, sweet n...
The personal anecdotes that make up Driving While Black , a hilarious but scathing commentary on police profiling, are based in reality. Frightening. That fact alone should make this film a must-see....
"Can I come with you?" Are the people around you really who they claim to be? This reality-bending question is at the heart of Screamers , a quiet little science fiction movie that, once seen, tugs at...
Could there be anything more punk than producer Roger Corman hiring director Penelope Spheeris ( Wayne’s World ) in 1983 to direct a movie about youth alienation in Los Angeles? I think not. Call it P...
It is a film that Roger Ebert eviscerated with his review, taking the moral high ground and shaming 10 to Midnight for its portrayal of sex, violence, and the female condition. He also took to the rev...
Marion “Cobra” Cobretti is back on the streets. Wearing his Judas Priest-styled sunglasses, a must for ANY badass in the 1980s, and taking out any number of axe-swinging maniacs, his beat on the stree...
When people long missing unexpectedly return to one Midwestern town, a team of ufologists see their role in this interstellar mystery ever-expanding thanks to some mysterious sights and sounds from ab...
It is a calm, grey day. The surface of the water is still. A ferry cuts calmly across the surface, careful to make gentle waves. And then it happens. Your worst fears become reality. Rising from the s...
Part Woman. Part Machine. Total Destruction. When was the last time we had a female kickass alien cyborg film? It’s been a hot minute since, hmm, 1993. Which is why SheBorg (originally released as She...
Hollywood used to make fun movies like this one all of the time. They stopped when the 1990s ran up on us. Hitting my stride in the 1980s as a fat kid with a bag of popcorn in one hand and a sack of g...