Loron Hays

“Get me off this FUCKING show,” mutters one contestant on the television game show Live or Die. With contests like Dance of the Seven Boners and one involving transporting two heavy gas canisters thro...
The flash of neon. The absorbing synths. The resounding thump of the bass. Nerve is more than a movie; it is an interactive realm of total absorption. Classifying its audience into two parts, Nerve is...
Reputation Road, here we come! With that sentence, a young man’s wildest sexual fantasies come true. Overlooking Los Angeles from high in the hills, Kyle’s (Steven Boggs) attempts to get laid finally...
Now, THIS is how you successfully pull off a B-movie. The Waxwork series of movies - Waxwork & Waxwork II: Lost in Time – were made during a very special time in the horror genre, all thanks to the vi...
Armed with a healthy dose of much needed restraint, director Mike Flanagan ( Oculus ) and co-writer Jeff Howard collaborate to save Ouija: Origin of Evil from the haunting lows of its predecessor. It’...
When Canadians do horror, good things tend to happen. The Pit , directed by Lew Lehman, is a great example of that statement. Released in 1981, this low budget horror film tells the tale of a weird ki...
There are few moments in the 1980’s output of horror titles as effective as the opening minutes of Tom Holland’s Child’s Play . Serial-killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), wearing a righteous brown t...
To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie . It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by...
I am not a huge fan of Horror maestro Wes Craven. I tend to check out of the whole adoration club when the discussion turns to his most recent offerings. Yes, Scream included. I just think that, of al...
To the outside eye, The Astro-Zombies is probably not regarded as the greatest of monster flicks. Clocking in at 91-minutes, the b-grade entertainment at the center of this Mad Scientist tale is far t...
Writer, director, and editor Ti West ( The Innkeepers ) pays homage to the westerns of Sergio Leone with his latest film, In a Valley of Violence . The results are expectantly explosive with sudden bu...
Dude. Talk about a blast from the past. Duuuuude. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is already a comedy classic from the latter part of the 1980s. Had it failed to connect with audiences, there would b...
Vinegar Syndrome isn’t through with writer/director Richard Casey just yet. Hot off the heels of their “loverly” HD handling of Horror House on Highway 5 comes his second feature, Hellbent . This punk...
Hands down, It is the best killer clown movie around to ever roll out onto ANY screen. The miniseries itself might be a tad uneven, but nothing beats Tim Curry’s performance as the killer clown haunti...
The Phantasm series completes its offbeat rotation around the sun with the release of Phantasm: RaVager this Friday. It is a movie that is both a fitting goodbye to the late Angus Scrimm and, operatin...
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