Loron Hays

Christmas is a stressful time of the year. Everybody knows this, but no one is ever prepared for just how stressful the act of decorating houses, stringing lights, and putting up Christmas trees actua...
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle , the second oldest film critic organization in the United States, released their list of nominees for the Best Film of 2016. They are:
While the results are far from perfect, The Neptune Factor probably began its life as an imagined undersea adventure with some unexpected moments of the bizarre. It’s certainly creative with what it o...
Windows up. Doors locked. Such is the paranoid view that David Cronenberg’s Rabid presents in his commercial follow-up to his debut, Shivers . Quebec and Montréal, due to a highly suspect procedure re...
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-9764823118029583", enable_page_level_ads: true }); There are few mainstream movies that leave me feeling inspired anymore. I c...
It is the first film to receive an X rating solely for its violent content. I Drink Your Blood is also a masterpiece of the drive-in. Its debut on blu-ray, thanks to Grindhouse Releasing, is an import...
Melinda Clarke, who stars in Brian Yuzna’s Return of the Living Dead 3 , might just be the hottest zombie ever to grace the silver screen. She is, after all, the original living dead girl. She’s a wil...
“I’m a hungry man!” When Vestron Pictures originally released C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the C.H.U.D. back in 1988, they knew exactly the type of movie they had on their hands. And it wasn’t a horror flick. The...
Nevermind the fact that the theme song – performed by Yes’ Jon Anderson – plays something like four times throughout the movie. Please ignore the mess the film leaves as questions go unanswered. And,...
Director Eric Hyde, as made apparent by his debut short, is a filmmaker to keep an eye on. The rich mystery that is uncovered in From Ashes to Immortality is one that is not easily dismissed. Maybe it...
“But, Miss Hammond... Helga! No Hammond ever ventures into the rocky lane on a foggy night,” is the warning. It’s the siren song of an entire family line. You see, the Hammond family IS cursed. Some m...
Writer/director Steve Gomez, in this his debut feature film, brings back the intelligence that is largely missing in most of today's science fiction with Kill Command , a violent meditation on the fut...
God bless Samurai Cop . Seriously. Ranking alongside The Room and Troll 2 , Samurai Cop rounds out a trio of films so fucking bad that they are unyieldingly hilarious. You want to set the tone of a pa...
And now it is time to get weird; really weird. Jeremy Irons, man. What a commanding actor, right? Well, in David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers , he plays a set of talented twins that, after a simple misun...
I first saw Dario Argento’s Phenomena when it was released here in the United States as Creepers . That version – heavily edited by 30-minutes (for no other reason than to save Americans from actually...