Loron Hays

"You have no future," read the signs and flyers populating this flick. With those words, a whole new world of arm-wrestling, cyborgs, truck drivers, and low-flying helicopter chases over bridges begin...
Holy Frying Felines! How are YOU going to explain the C-A-T in the rotisserie? It is, of course, one of my favorite questions in this cat-centered cult classic that Scream Factory puts back into circu...
Finally. With this release from Australian home video company Umbrella Entertainment, a long requested top 10 horror film arrives on blu-ray. Stephen King’s Silver Bullet , starring Gary Busey, Everet...
“Yor’s world! He’s the man! Yor’s world!” With these puzzling lyrics, Oliver Onions, a duo best known for their cheesy soundtrack work, perfectly matches their cosmic melody with a downhill (and hilar...
Sick thrills for hotheaded teenagers! The Cuban Missile Crisis! Bring in the nuked and still marching ants, too! My God, I love this film. I, too, have a serious crush on William Castle, the producer...
The boy wakes up. His hair is a mess that no comb will be able to contain. Dirk the Daring, the best knight in the kingdom of King Ethelred, stares back at him from his wall. The kid, a little pudgy a...
It is a valley of ash that fills the screen; dull and without expression. Little hope resides here. It is a dull and gray atmosphere that washes over us; full of cold notions as K (Ryan Gosling) arriv...
If there is anything that growing up on my father’s steady diet of b-movie westerns taught me – and I’m talking every Sunday he’d sit and watch (and watch again) the same recycled footage of horseback...
Eurotrash cinema by way of slinky and naked snake handling? Yummy. If gorgeous and exotic topless women dancing open-mouthed with a damn big snake wrapping around them as an organ soundtrack plays wit...
Because sometimes older is better. Martin Campbell. Pierce Brosnan. Jackie Chan. When these three titans of hard-hitting action go toe-to-toe, you are definitely going to want to see the results. Thos...
“Alright, ladies, from here on out your machete is your best friend. Keep it clean. Keep it sharp. And keep it well oiled.” With those specific instructions, the burly guards of one sugarcane harvesti...
It will take you no less than five minutes to get drawn into the mesmerizing debut feature film from 22-year-old Quinn Shephard, the writer/director/producer/editor and star of Blame . I kid you not....
“The next time I have to come in here I’m cracking skulls.” The Breakfast Club , in which the late great writer/director John Hughes gives voice to the voiceless, has finally been officially considere...
Score another one for the good guys! Hell Night , being a fun-loving meditation on the very nature of gothic haunts and twisted terror by the man who brought you The Concrete Jungle ( which I reviewed...
The Half Moon Killer strikes again! First and foremost, there is the undying groove as Seven Blood Stained Orchids , a crimson-spattered film in which a brown-haired prostitute meets her nickel-sized...