Loron Hays

There are little things more unsettling than zombie Nazis rising from calm waters somewhere off the coast of Florida. These top secret storm troopers cannot be stopped once they’ve risen from the dept...
Holy crap. Holy crap. HOLY CRAP. That’s the only thing I could stammer after releasing my grip from the theater armrests upon the completion of writer/director Jennifer Kent’s chilling The Babadook....
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the tale of a madman told through the eyes of another madman; a film so daunting it’s horrifying. Yes, here it is: the very first horror film and still its influence is...
Katniss Everdeen will indeed go down as one of the most influential teenage literary characters of our time. Safe to say that Harry Potter still tops that list. A disclaimer first, as to say that I ha...
Your choices are: (a) Ambitious (b) Pedestrian (c) Quaint. Circle one of the words and you could anchor a review of Moontrap , written by Tex Ragsdale, around it. For this review, it works best if I t...
“This stuff is way beyond Ouija boards, you guys.” Do we need to ask why? Someone somewhere at MGM couldn’t leave well enough alone and that’s the only answer you’ll get. Of course, Pumpkinhead has to...
Redefining the slow burn, Los Angeles-filmmaker Blake Robbins takes audiences on a heart-wrenching journey through loss and grief as one family struggles after the death of their three children and th...
Inspired by writer/director/producer and all around film icon Roger Corman, Stuart Gordon – the director of From Beyond and Re-Animator – decided to film another script while he still had the use of a...
In 1965, rebel American director Monte Hellman ( Two-Lane Blacktop ) conceived of two westerns and decided to film them back-to-back in the Utah desert. Surreal and gritty, these two westerns would pr...
It will more than likely go down as the crown prince of sequels that should have never been made. Twenty years is waaaay too long to stay loyal to two rubber-faced morons charging their way through on...
“Whoa. Free toy inside! Free toy inside!” Do I have your attention Cult of UHF ? Because the blu-ray you want and need has just been released. "Weird Al" Yankovic, the reigning king of pop song parody...
Writer/director John Michael McDonagh returns with a vengeance in Calvary , a dark comedy that expertly juggles the sacred with the profane. The film takes its name from the hill where Jesus was cruci...
Relativity is finally portrayed correctly on film thanks to the efforts of Christopher and Johnathan Nolan BUT, with a running time at close to 180 minutes and a climactic event happening offscreen, I...
The forefather of Italian Horror Cinema reanimates the dead … in outer space. Mario Brava’s Planet of the Vampires is not a cinematic masterpiece. It is; however, one of the most influential of narrat...
If one worm can’t kill you, maybe 100,000 could. Writer/director Jeff Lierberman’s Squirm takes a closer look at our fish bait and turns those harmless, wriggling little creatures into mean-spirited s...