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In honor of Mother's Day we are going to take the next few weeks to countdown the Top 10 Horror Mom's and mention why we love them. Horror Mom's are the most notorious and supportive Mom's there ever were and here is why...
5. Karen Black as Mother Firefly: House of 1,000 Corpses (2003)
Every psychotic family needs the most perfectly twisted matriarch to keep them all together and Karen Black is the iconic woman you want to portray her. If only we all had a mother as dedicated to her family.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
Four friends have less than an hour to escape with their lives when they find themselves trapped in a popular Los Angeles escape room with a demonically possessed killer. The entire idea of "escape rooms" has been begging for a horror film adaptation since they became a thing, so we were more than happy to learn that a film has been made, and it is everything we hoped. With a demonic presence, a serial killer, hopeless victims, building tension, and Skeet Ulrich returning to his horror roots. A little slow to start but with Dukes flair for scene, ESCAPE ROOM delivers on setting up the premise, building suspense, and delivering on death.
Directed and Written by friend of the Creepercast Peter Dukes, starring Skeet Lurich, Christine Donlon, Sean Young, Haley McLaughlin, and Randy Wayne. Now available on VOD everywhere and DVD/BluRay in the UK.
Jeff's really short reviews are designed to briefly highlight those movies that Jeff either loves or in some cases, hates, without any fluff in between.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
Tonight's full moon is brought to you by the Creepercast with the recommended Full Moon Feature of the evening...
Two gunrunners and a pregnant policewoman (Tracy Scoggins) are trapped in a warehouse with a bad boy's toys.
The film features small, killer toys similar to those seen in Puppet Master. Pay particular attention to the clown that looks like he came from Killer Klowns and the foul-mouthed baby!
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
Memorial Valley Massacre – aka Valley of Death, Memorial Day and Son of Sleepaway Camp – is a 1988 American slasher horror film directed by Robert C. Hughes (Hunter’s Blood) from a screenplay co-written with George Frances Skrow. It stars John Kerry, William Smith and Cameron Mitchell.
Despite some horrific warning signs, a greedy land developer opens a campground to the public… and sets the stage for a bloodbath. Whatever it is that stalks the camp kills with the strength of some powerful beast, and with the cunning and vengeful hatred of a human. The most experienced campers don’t know the law of the land and their ignorance is no excuse – because the killer will not forgive, forget, or bury the hatchet – except in someone’s chest!
In this scene from Hammer's THE MUMMY, Christopher Lee dislocated his shoulder because a grip forgot to unbolt the door.
Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with a picture or video capturing a behind the scenes moment of the most iconic horror films complete with trivia information.
When three English archaeologists find the tomb of an Egyptian high priestess -- buried nearly four thousand years before -- they discover a guard who had been buried alive with her. Rising in anger, the Mummy sets out to destroy the despoilers of the tomb of the sacred princess.
Creepercast Presents a Terror Time Out features a video from an iconic film.
Anyone who knows me knows I love the zombie genre, so whenever I see there’s a new trailer for a new movie showcasing the walking dead, I have to at least watch the trailer. I first saw the trailer for Cargo a few months ago, and instantly want to see it. The film stars Martin Freeman of Black Panther and The Hobbit fame as Andy, a man put to an impossible task... trying to get his infant daughter to safety during an infectious outbreak in the Australian outback. Our story starts off with Andy and Kay, his wife played by Susie Porter, on a houseboat navigating rivers with their young daughter trying to find help or shelter.
This movie is a slow burn at times but it's a good slow. We see a father get pushed into a terrifying situation and have to do whatever it takes to save his child, and as a father, it really hit me hard. I couldn't imagine going through this by myself but add my child, sheer horror for me. Along his way, Andy finds other survivors, some good and some not so good. There is also a lot of Aboriginal actors in this film which I have not seen since The Gods Must Be Crazy which is a blast from the past. Zombie movies like this, “infected”, kind of really freaking me out because in this crazy world we all could be one case of the flu away from The Walking Dead and 28 Days Later. If you like good zombie movies and suspense then CARGO is right up your alley. I give CARGO 8 out of 10.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
In honor of Mother's Day we are going to take the next few weeks to countdown the Top 10 Horror Mom's and mention why we love them. Horror Mom's are the most notorious and supportive Mom's there ever were and here is why...
6. Rose Ross as Mother: Mother's Day (1980)
As our favorite horror movies continue to remind us, it takes a special kind of love for a mother to always be there for her demented offspring. Someone had to nourture their psychotic tendancies after all. Rose Ross does so with as much positive re-enforcement as a mother can provide.
In this British low B scifi/horror, a couple of lizard-like aliens have arrived to earth with the intent of stealing our women and killing our men using genetically modified bad CGI'd bunny rabbits. CUTE LITTLE BUGGERS is a goofy alien invasion film with lots of sexual frustation and bloody victims. My mind kept going back to the killer rabbit in Monty Python. Everything in the film fits common tropes from the lone sufferer returning home to make peace with his father to the ex-girlfriend and her asshole fiance. Still, fun although the CGI is mildly distracting.
Directed by Tony Jopia (Crying Wolf, Dawning of the Dead) from the Screenplay by Garry Charles, Andy Davie. CUTE LITTLE BUGGERS stars a few familiar Brits like Caroline Munro, Honey Holmes, Dani Thompson, Gary Martin, Kumud Pant, Sara Dee, John R Walker, Steve Aaron-Sipple. For a Benny Hill good laugh with no expectations be sure to check it out on all VOD platforms.
Jeff's really short reviews are designed to briefly highlight those movies that Jeff either loves or in some cases, hates, without any fluff in between.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
At least once a month we will showcase a YouTube channel that caters to horror fans with entertaining and informative content. This months featured channel is...
DEAD MEAT : A horror movie channel by James A. Janisse. Home of the Kill Count series, tallying up the body count in all your favorite horror movies.
We want to pay special attention to the Kill Count series that offers new episodes every Friday. Here is one of the most recent offerings and be warned, there will be SPOILERS.
We hope that James will be ok with us continuing to share links to these videos as a regular feature in the future.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
Lee has joked in interviews that when making this film, people used to avoid him on the set because he looked so disgusting in his Creature make-up. Lee has also told stories of how on those few occasions he was on the set without his make-up, no one knew who he was. “Oh, you’re the guy playing the Creature? Didn’t recognize you without your monster face on.”
Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with a picture or video capturing a behind the scenes moment of the most iconic horror films complete with trivia information.
"Look, I admit. He isn’t a particularly good-looking specimen at present but don’t forget: one’s facial character is built up on what lies behind it— in the brain. A benevolent mind and the face assumes the pattern of benevolence. An evil mind, and an evil face. For this the brain of a genius will be used. And when that brain starts to function within the frame the facial features will assume wisdom and understanding."
Creepercast Presents a Terror Time Out features a still from an iconic film with a one-line review of the film.
In honor of Mother's Day we are going to take the next few weeks to countdown the Top 10 Horror Mom's and mention why we love them. Horror Mom's are the most notorious and supportive Mom's there ever were and here is why...
7. Kathleen Turner as Beverly Sutphin: Serial Mom (1994)
In this indie crime/horror/thriller/comedy a seemingly perfect wife and mother (Kathleen Turner) from Baltimore gains celebrity status as a serial killer.
In New York City in 1987, a handsome, young urban professional, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), lives a second life as a gruesome serial killer by night. The cast is filled by the detective (Willem Dafoe), the fiance (Reese Witherspoon), the mistress (Samantha Mathis), the coworker (Jared Leto), and the secretary (Chloë Sevigny). This is a biting, wry comedy examining the elements that make a man a monster.
On this day in horror history.... one of the films that became the template for the modern slasher film, 'Peeping Tom' is released. Featuring the first person perspective of the killer, it's themes were considered shocking at the time. In horror circles, this is a forgotten cult classic.
BEYOND THE WOODS is an Irish horror film written and directed by Sean Breathnach, making his feature debut. The film stars Ross MacMahon, John Ryan Howard, Mark Lawrence and Irene Kelleher. The plot is environmentally simple... Seven old friends get together for a reunion at a holiday home on the edge of a forest in Ireland. However, a sinkhole has opened nearby and is spewing hot sulfur. The friends begin to act out of character and soon come to realize that something evil is also crossing through the sinkhole. Of course, it has opened a portal to Hell.
Admittedly I love myself some Irish horror films, and that hasn't changed even though BEYOND THE WOODS lacks the usual love for the characters and dingy darkness of the evil the characters face. That is not to say it isn't original enough to entertain a watch. It does come heavy handed on the environmental front and the character drama/conflict seemed underplayed despite needing to be a major focus of the film. Check it out yourself and let us know what you think.
Jeff's really short reviews are designed to briefly highlight those movies that Jeff either loves or in some cases, hates, without any fluff in between.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
On this day in horror history.... sometimes horror actress Amber Tamblyn is born. Co-star of the 2002 reboot of 'The Ring' and star of 'The Grudge 2', she's had quite a career and I've got to admit, both of these films were pretty decent. Plus, 'The Grudge 2' had an amazing death scene for Ted Raimi! Happy Birthday Amber! (sorry this wasn't more about you)
Horror can pop up in the strangest places in non-horror films and somehow affect us more than an entire horror film depending on the context. Join us as we showcase one of these moments with this month's offering...
The melting of Judge Doom
As if humans being able to interact with toons isn't creepy enough, let's add in the possible destruction of the world and this spoilerific scene in which Judge Doom gets the Wicked Witch of the West treatment.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
In one scene, Mina exits her bedroom after having been seduced and bitten by Dracula, with a very satisfied and seductive smile on her face. Director Terence Fisher, after a few botched takes, reportedly told actress Melissa Stribling: “Just imagine you’ve had the best sex of your life, all night long!” Providing exactly the right motivation, they then proceeded to wrap the scene on the first take.
Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with a picture or video capturing a behind the scenes moment of the most iconic horror films complete with trivia information.
As with all of my reviews of films for The Creepercast, I fully recommend that you check each and every one of them out. I am one man and this is my opinion. I've seen plenty of movies that received reviews that were the complete opposite of how I saw the film. These writers, directors, producers and actors all put a lot of time and love into these projects. They deserve to be seen and appreciated for what they are. Everyone has a dream and I fully support the people that take the time to make theirs a reality. With that being said....
This movie has been on my radar for a very long time. It kept popping up as a cult classic of independent horror of the 80's. Not the typical stuff that you would find on your generic horror sites lists, but the kind that only die hard fans would be aware of. On the surface, it reads like a Lloyd Kaufman Troma masterpiece, but this is a monster all it's own. It's grungy, dirty and feels like a lot of people viewed New York in the late 70's and early 80's. A bunch of people from all different parts of society, all kind of jumbled together into one potentially volatile space. Perhaps that was what Gregory Lamberson was intending when he made it? I'm not sure, but he captures the spirit of that time regardless. This is kind of the spiritual successor to Jim Muro's trashtastic epic 'Street Trash'. While it may not have the production values or the vibrant color palette, they feel like counterparts. Even the visuals and basic outline are very similar. Because of how impressed I was with 'Street Trash', I had high hopes for 'Slime City'. I truly believed it may be my next hidden gem that lined my library of film. What's funny though, is that because of my love for Herschell Gordon Lewis and what he brought to the table, I've been pegged as a gore hound. Believe it or not, I'm not the biggest fan of gore effects. They actually can be a bit of a detractor for me at times. This is kind of why 'Street Trash' spoke to me. It had all the elements of a gore film, but because of the decision to use neon colors for all of the blood, guts, gore and icky stuff, it almost made it fun and artsy. 'Slime City' made a similar stylistic choice, but it still came off as being pretty goopy. That's not a bad thing, just something that already kind of made it lose some points. What it did have going for it was the city and buildings the characters inhabited. One of my favorite things about revisiting a lot of these old unearthed titles (especially on Blu-ray) is that you can get a glimpse of what it was like to live in New York City, back in the day. It was a time when film makers seemed to be a bit more free with their decisions to experiment. They would play with the way a narrative was constructed and what might come off as believable. Some of them just didn't care and wanted to tell an insane story. (I'm looking at you Frank Henenlotter) This film is another addition to the time capsule that was the 80's in indie horror.
'Slime City' tells the story of a student, Alex, that moves into a run down apartment building. He's dating a girl that loves him and wants to marry him, but won't have sex with him. The other tenants in the building are all a little off. It's full of artists and punks and the elderly, but the rent is cheap. As he begins to establish himself in his new home, his neighbor has him over for “dinner”. What this actually consists of, he isn't sure, as it's simply described as 'Himalayan yogurt'. He also drinks some haunted Crème de Methe and before long, he's turned into a hideous, melting monster that has a desire to kill. After running into a bum in the alley and eventually killing him, Alex returns to normal. Realizing what's happening, he begins to investigate what he's ingested. We come to find out that a former tenant named Zachary, was an alchemist who's the one that is causing all of this, even from beyond the grave. Alex continues to kill, in order to keep himself as normal as possible. All the while, his relationship is falling apart, along with his life as he's soon face to face with his girlfriend for one final epic showdown.
(Note to the reader: I hate writing plot summaries. That is all.) This film is a cult classic, I can't deny that fact. After finally viewing this film though, I'm left feeling a little hollow inside. Not that it was bad, it just wasn't what I was expecting. Maybe the bar was set to high, from all of the time I spent waiting to watch it? I fully understand what Gregory Lamberson was going for with this film and ultimately, I think he succeeded despite the smaller budget. It very much feels like a student film, being made in the senior year of film school with people studying to be actors, but that will only end up in Eric Roberts films. The special effects are pretty solid. There are some questionable effects moments during the end battle between Alex and his girlfriend, but in the films defense, these were all practical effects. It was 1988, after all. With that being said, you have to give credit where credit is due. Considering all of the things it had going against it, this pulled off quite a bit. I'm curious to see the much delayed sequel 'Slime City Massacre' (2010) to see where the story takes us, so far into the future. At some point, I may end up picking it up on Blu-ray, just to be able to indulge in the special features and see if I can appreciate this one a little more after some distance and time. Also, since it's a double feature with both films, it's a win win situation. I'm keeping this review a little shorter, as it's been a couple of months since I've seen this one and I feel I've said about all I can say. It's a decent 3 out of 5 stars, just barely above a 2 star rating. If you're a lover of all things trashy and low budget, then I certainly recommend this one to you. If you like your horror movies more mainstream and high end, stay away at all costs. This one is for hardcore horror nerds only.
If you like this one, check out: 'Street Trash', 'The Toxic Avenger' and 'The Incredible Melting Man'
In honor of Mother's Day we are going to take the next few weeks to countdown the Top 10 Horror Mom's and mention why we love them. Horror Mom's are the most notorious and supportive Mom's there ever were and here is why...
8. Essie Davis as Amelia Vannick: The Babadook (2014)
A troubled widow (Essie Davis) discovers that her son is telling the truth about a monster that entered their home through the pages of a children's book. In the end what we learn is that the monster is a lot closer to this mother then we would have liked to believe.
"I am Dracula and I welcome you to my house. I must apologize for not being here to greet you personally, but I trust you've found everything you needed."
Creepercast Presents a Terror Time Out features a still from an iconic film with a one-line review of the film.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
In honor of Mother's Day we are going to take the next few weeks to countdown the Top 10 Horror Mom's and mention why we love them. Horror Mom's are the most notorious and supportive Mom's there ever were and here is why...
9. Mama as herself: Mama (2013)
On the day that their parents die, sisters Lilly and Victoria vanish in the woods, prompting a frantic search by their Uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain). Five years later, miraculously, the girls are found alive in a decaying cabin, and Lucas and Annabel welcome them into their home. But as Annabel tries to reintroduce the children to a normal life, she finds that someone -- or something -- still wants to tuck them in at night.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
Hitchhiking ghosts, haunted hotels, possessed dolls, famous graveyards and murder sites. The Haunted Routes crew map out the ultimate haunted road trip along the eastern coast, stopping at such locations as Salem Massachusetts, Sleepy Hollow, Blood Manor, Troma Entertainment and many others, all the while sharing insight on the paranormal that celebrate the morbid and macabre. The film is pretty much longer versions of the short clips Shockfilmfest provides on their YouTube page. Although they seem to bill these shows as paranormal investigations they really just provide the true stories behind some of the most haunted sites we know about and in this film, they tie them all together into an east coast route, should you choose to follow them. Also the inclusion of the haunted attraction Blood Manor and visit with Troma Studios make it an interesting documentary with interviews with iconic horror players.
Jeff's really short reviews are designed to briefly highlight those movies that Jeff either loves or in some cases, hates, without any fluff in between.
Shaenon K. Garrity, the self-professed Mayor of Horror Movies, is mostly a cartoonist who just happens to watch a lot of scary movies while drawing cartoons. Check out her thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year at Horror Every Day. Continue to visit the Creepercast every day for that days featured Horror offering.
