Loron Hays

Ho ho ho! Merry friggin’ Christmas! Have you been naughty or nice this year? Fuhget about Sandy Claws, it is Krampus who really wants to know. Writer/director/producer Michael Dougherty ( Trick 'r Tre...
...because little kids really can be this terrible! The horror/comedy hybrid is a really weird and tricky sub-genre to tackle as a writer. Everything has to hit in such a manner that it satisfies both...
It's a Wonderful Life ’s Gloria Grahame and Len Lesser (ya know, Uncle Leo from Seinfeld ), make a deadly duo in Philip Gilbert’s Blood and Lace . Written and co-produced by Gil Lasky ( The Night God...
…in which Canada makes its very first wide-release horror movie. Wait. What?! It’s true. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that our polite friends up north decided to tingle their spines with the psycho...
Adding to the supernatural splendor of Ghost Story are the matte paintings of Albert Whitlock and Syd Dutton. They add so much life to this frightening tale that it’s rather shocking to discover that...
After the success of Rocky Balboa (both critically and commercially), if you’d have asked me should the character of Rocky return for yet another installment I would have said “no” and quite emphatica...
Bruce Dern attaching two heads to a monkey. Hell, Dern attaching two heads to anything!!! If that image doesn’t get you excited for a schlock film full of nastiness, then I doubt little else will. You...
Time to grab the ugly holiday sweaters and jot on over to the theater this weekend. And if you're really in the spirit of festivities, smoke 'em if you got 'em because the Pineapple Express gang is ma...
Rated R due to the amount of bloodshed and on-screen violence, director Peter Jackson returns one final time (maybe) to the fields of Middle-Earth and delivers The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armie...
Visual artist Corin Hardy’s directorial debut is, indeed, something to see. Opening this weekend here in Kansas City, the horror film grabs viewers with its sheer intensity and atmospheric effects. It...
It is upon us. For, thankfully, a fourth time, Daniel Craig returns as James Bond and delivers yet another quality entry in his stint as the super spy bulldog with a taste for drink and dames.This tim...
Genre fans rejoice! The creature feature B-movie category just got a brand spankin’ new addition to its roster of gore, charm, and cheese. Stung , directed by Benni Diez, is just the type of garden pa...
Warner Home Video outdoes itself this Halloween season with the release of a 4-film Special Effects Collection on blu-ray. The set includes Mighty Joe Young (1949), Son of Kong (1933), Them! (1954), a...
While considered a rather weak film serial when compared to other flicks of the era, Flying Disc Man from Mars – a 12-part science fiction offering from Republic – is a solid example of just how silly...
Five men board a train. They don’t know each other. They hardly acknowledge one another until a sixth joins them in the same small compartment. Little do they know that their final destination is link...
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