Loron Hays

And it comes right at you! Exploding from the screen and absolutely thrilling in its rendering, It Came From Outer Space , with an eerie performance from Russell Johnson ( This Island Earth , Attack o...
This house wakes up at night. Absolutely. The Haunting Lodge , directed by filmmakers Kendall and Vera Whelpton ( The House In Between ), is a fascinating investigation into the reported hauntings at...
. . . and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go! You know how the nursery rhyme goes, except in director Jason Arber ’s bloody version of this beloved rhyme, Mary’s lamb has gone complete...
This is why I love independent filmmaking. Artists get to challenge genre norms. Written by Bret Miller and directed by Harley Wallen ( Ash and Bone ), Beneath Us All begins in Scandinavia in 912 AD....
If ever an award should be handed out for classicism in the opening two minutes of a film, it ought to go to writer/director Robbie Smith ’s Grieve . For two whole minutes, we hover above a man who is...
“The mummy walks at midnight!” The frights are baaaack! And with them a whole lot of fun, too. Complete with a fresh set of fun faux trailers ( The Slaughter , directed by Shawn Burkett, Night of the...
Before the law there stands a guard . . . and that guard is not allowing you admittance. Ever. This is a world gone completely mad and the masterfully on-point filmmaker, one Orson Welles , is there t...
Public art has to withstand the elements. Keep that in mind as The Curse of Willow Song rolls out. There is beauty in the breakdown, but it is going to require a heavy, heavy price...
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. It’s an idea introduced by writer William Faulkner and, thematically, it is present as the day is long in Writer/Director T ereza Nvotová ’s hauntingly beau...
Larger-than-life horror director, Alfred Costella (a very funny and wild Vinny Curran ), wants everyone to get off when they see his movies. Literally. His latest offering, an all practical-effects fi...
“Aren’t you breaking some super spy trouble for telling me all this?” John Doe is a “soldier’s soldier” and now he’s under their control. Robert Patrick ( The X-Files , Terminator 2 ) says this as the...
“Stay away from Oz!” Gale is a 30-minute movie about a legacy of shattered dreams as one young former Kansas native, Emily Gale ( Chloë Culligan Crump ), finds herself haunted by some disturbing image...
Embark on the ultimate action adventure that spans continents and explores ancient history with The Mummy Trilogy including The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor . Fol...
Hold onto your butts! Grindhouse horror is not through with you yet, Horror Hounds! Megalomaniac , an award-winning feature from Writer/Director Karim Ouelhaj is upon us this month. The film is violen...
. . and her cries for help echo through the woods. Opening with two sad, yet unrelated events, The Hanged Girl - which starts in the 1800s with a smallpox outbreak - brings its winding narrative toget...