Loron Hays

The bookish virgin. Two selfish friends. The obsessed psychiatrist. A babysitting job on October 31 st . And The Shape. Halloween , masterfully directed by John Carpenter, is considered – some 35 year...
Anthony Perkins’ directorial debut arrives with his third appearance as Norman Bates in Psycho III . While not as sharp as the first sequel to Hitchcock’s classic film, the third in the series proves...
Writer/Director John Carpenter must really be a miracle worker. He’s got some serious mojo working in his favor. Or maybe he’s simply a smarter filmmaker than most give him credit.Other than the late...
I wonder if, for filmmakers, there could there be anything more terrifying than helming a sequel to a beloved classic film 22 years after the original. Or is such a task just plain stupid and flawed f...
Metallica Through the Never might be the best heavy metal concert I’ve never attended. Filled with explosive performances from a band still hard at work and a catalog of songs that won’t stop its assa...
Who’d have thought it?! Grimm survived the Friday night kiss of death time slot and NBC’s TV show guillotine. And it did it with so much fun and style that NBC executives had no choice BUT to embrace...
The Dead Walk! With no further explanation than that, writer/director and all around Horror Maestro George A. Romero returns for a third time to the zombie setting he famously started with Night of th...
With a series as long-running as Doctor Who , one finds it increasingly rare that there can be anything new offered to fans. That’s just what The Ice Warriors is though. Long thought a loss cause for...
Directed by Terence Fisher, Dracula, Prince of Darkness is Hammer Films' first sequel to 1958's Horror of Dracula to feature the return of Christopher Lee as the Count (who was absent from 1960's Brid...
Oscar-nominated director Denis Villeneuve teams up with Oscar nominees Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal in Prisoners , a twisting thriller that – while involving – is not nearly as smart as the screen...
David M. Rosenthal’s A Single Shot is a brutal and savage slice of crime cinema. It’s as moody as the Mississippi river and as poetic. While it offers nothing new to the genre, the thriller does make...
We all know that Frankenstein’s sickness can’t be cured. To paraphrase the spritely grotesque Frankenstein’s Army , that sickness must be cut out…with the nastiest of dirty blades. But what if Dr. Vik...
Containing one of the most sickening and shocking unveiling scenes in horror history, Kurt Nuemann’s The Fly finally lands on Blu-ray this week. Fify -years later and still this giant-sized insect can...
Allow me to be blunt. Insidious: Chapter 2 is scary … scary bad. There, I said it, it’s comparable only to watching an awful student film that goes nowhere in 105 minutes. It is also completely unnece...
Two full seasons have passed and finally the characters of Haven are given the chance to really flourish. All the hidden powers have been revealed and, while more characters are added, there’s a certa...